Knitting help - please!!!!

[lunchbox]

I am at the end of my yarn with this sweater (http://www.minidata.co.nz/major/freepatt/patt01.htm). I'd really like to master a simple sweater for baby gifts and charity.

Here are my questions:

I don't seem to be getting the bobble-y look. Any ideas on why?

I don't understand the 'sleeve' section. If I slip the front to the right needle, my working yarn will be off the right so how do I cast on additional stitches to the lefthand needle? If I do the seamless version, do I cast the 4 stitches onto the lefthand needle and then knit them?

HELP!!!

[wanttobepregnantnow]

Could it be how you are inserting the needle (front or back) to do the M1 stitches?

As for the seamless, when it is saying to slip certain stitches onto "spare yarn" do they mean "spare needle"? I would do it exactly how it reads. it seems to make sense. what part don't you get? :)

[wanttobepregnantnow]

I think I would cast onto the left needle and then you are knitting their first row then and there. That way, the first row after cast on for these 4 sets of stitiches is a knit stitch row, not a pearl, making it equal to the other starts of the sweater. make sense?

[lunchbox]

This is the sleeve section I am talking about:

Sleeve: Slip sts from first (front) section up to marker (should be 22 sts) on to right hand needle. (See how it doesn't seem to make sense? How could you cast on if you slipped them to the right needle and the working yarn was on the right hand side?)

As for the M1, I may not be doing it correctly. Am I supposed to insert the yarn into a stitch first? From the directions, it doesn't seem like it, but then what is the difference between a M1 and a yo?

I keep wondering if its just a poorly written pattern or if I am just the worlds DUMBEST knitter. :rolleyes:

[Heath]

With the M1, what I'm wondering is if it depends on which type of knitting you use. There are, I think, two standard forms: English and European(?). I learned the German/European way, which I think uses one fewer steps in each knitting move, but I don't know exactly what the difference is.

Anyway, I read M1 as a standard increase. So I would knit two stitches into the one below (knit, don't slip the yarn off the left needle, and knit again). With a yarn-over, on the other hand, you'll definately have a hole -- those are used in lacey patterns (I'm doing one now where I do a yarn-over, then a decrease, and the effect is that the overall number of stitches stays the same, but you get holes in a diagonal pattern).

[The sleeve I'm not sure of -- I'd have to see it at that point to know.]