This may be a tricky part of the Tyche Hoodie pattern, so I will explain what we are doing step by step.

At this point we have a workpiece that is knitted flat. The first and the last 3 stitches are I-cord stitches. On the left side we have 7 placket stitches altogether (3 I-cord and 4 Stockinette), on the right side we have 8 (3 I-cord and 5 Stockinette) because we couldn’t join the I-cord to the placket backwards last time. This causes a distortion here, but we will address this in a minute:

What we need to do now is to slide these 8 stitches from the right-side needle to a DPN and place them behind the left-hand needle:

We are going to knit the stitches of the left-hand needle and the DPN together according to the following:

Step 1.

Knit the first 2 stitches from the nearside needle and the first stitch from the farside needle together (3 sts altogether) from the front loop.

What this step does is to curl the first I-cord stitch under, so your placket stitches will line up perfectly and there won’t be a twist in the stitches.

Step 2.

Knit 1 stitch from the nearside and 1 stitch from the farside needles together from the front loop. Repeat this step 3 times, until there are 4 stitches left on your farside needle (the 3 I-cord stitches, and the last Stockinette stitch).

Step 3.

You have reached the point of the distortion shown above on Picture 1. (it is on the farside needle). Knit 1 stitch from the nearside needle and the next 2 stitches from the farside needle together (3 sts altogether) from the front loop to make the distortion disappear.

Step 4.

Now you have 1 Stockinette stitch left of the placket on the left-hand needle and 2 I-cord stitches on the farside needle. To even out the number of the placket stitches, you have to knit these 3 stitches together. So repeat Step 3: Knit 1 stitch from nearside needle and 2 stitches from farside needle together from the front loop.

And you are done with the placket! Place a marker here, since this will be your beginning of the round from now on.

You can watch the video of the whole process here:

I hope this was helpful to you! You can find more tutorials in my Knitting Help library. If you still need assistance with my pattern, please feel free to contact me via this form or send an email to gynkaknitwear@gmail.com.

I hope to see you in the next one! 🙂

Happy Knitting!

Mici