Stitch Markers IN Stitches??

[michelleklu]

I cannot figure this out. My pattern says to put stitch markers in several stitches and to decrease before and after each stitch that has a marker.

I don't know if this matters but to decrease you slip 1, put the stitch with the marker in it on a holder, then knit together the next stitch and the stitch on the holder.

Do I have to move the stitches up a row each time? I have both the closed ring and the paper clip kind. I was thinking of putting a closed ring marker before each indicated stitch but it is knit flat so that may be confusing.

Help?

[flapjack]

Do you have pierced ears? If so, I find that ear-rings (the kind that fasten shut) work well for jobs like this. What you'll probably find, however, is that if there's less than four rows between each set of decreases then you'll be able to read your knitting well enough that you won't need the markers.
Oh, and that sounds like a very long-winded way of doing a double decrease. Have a fiddle, but you probably won't need the holder.

[Knittin' in the Shade]

can you write, specifically, what it says? It sounds like you'll be doing a double decrease, which you could just do as a slip 1, knit 2 tog, pass slipped stitch over and not fiddle with the holder. (I've never actually seen any pattern put a stitch to a holder for decreasing!)