Thank you so so much! Your instructions make perfect sense. I bought the pattern from the local yarn shop. The explanation of terms was not included with the pattern. Thank you again for taking the time to answer this knitter’s dilemma! I appreciate it!

Lori

Thank you for complimenting my site! Always good to hear from a reader.

“Yrn” and making button holes – You are not the first to be baffled by that one!

Firstly I’m assuming you’re doing single moss stitch (K1, P1, K1, P1 etc)?

Purl the first stitch, K2tog, Yrn by Bringing the yarn to the front of the work (as if you were going to do a purl)then lift it over the needle to the back of the work again), Knit the next stitch, P1, K1, P1…

The important thing to understand is that the “yrn” makes a loop of yarn on the needle to replace the stitch you lost when you K2tog. When you come back along doing the next row you will knit this loop (without twisting it) as if it’s a normal stitch. The result of the malarkey is that you’ll have a neat little eyelet hole for your button hole.

Does that make any kind of sense??

Susan

Thank you for any help you can provide.

Lori – Southern California