[suzy122]

I have started knitting the Ravelry pattern cardigan Lavender blue dilly dilly, http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/lavender-blue-dilly-dilly-2 . Question, if you knit 2 together to make a button hole, should you make one in the next row? This is for row 3.

 

[Elis]

Yes but if you feel the hole too small do a "yarn over" and knit it in 4.

 

[Cindy M]

The best online advice I ever read is to make the button hole fit the button. Many knitters are chained to the pattern and afraid to make any adjustments, like in the button hole instructions. Gas is expensive and my time is too valuable to be chasing all over town trying to find the correct button to fit the buttonhole size the pattern calls for.

 

[galaxycraft]

Cast on 61 (63, 67) sts. Knit for 6 rows.
Row 1- knit 13 (13, 14), yo, k6, yo, k 23 (25, 27), yo,
k6, yo, knit 9 (9, 10), k2 tog, yo, k2. (1st buttonhole).
Row 2 and all even rows – k 6, purl to last 6 sts, knit.

The YO right after the K2tog will keep the stitch count right.
There are many ways to make button holes.
One of them being here in this pattern.
Another way is using cast off stitches for the button hole and then you cast on in the next row above the area that you had cast off.

 

[Elis]

Do we not accept that pattern designers use their experience to suggest the most aesthetic effect for their design? And have we not all seen the extrordinary results when the wrong size fastening is employed - so often the buttons seem more important than the design of the garment. Of course a millimetre or two difference is acceptable, but a centimetre or more certainly isn't .

 

[suzy122]

Thank you. I hadn't twigged the yo in that place was for the button hole. I am short one stitch. I will just have to go back to the start (thank goodness it is not too far) and knit with concentration, not watching TV. Definitely getting older!