Clarification for Lutea knitters

I'm afraid my sketch of Lutea's architecture will have to be put off for a post or two; without going into tedious detail, I will say that I've been uber-busy with both non-knitting matters (above: the view from my new home office) and non-bloggable knitting.

But, I've had several emails from knitters working on Lutea (and congratulations to them for finding me: does anyone know why Interweave did not put any email addresses or websites at the end of the patterns in this issue?), and I wanted to address their question (yes, they all had the same question) here. Karen wrote:

"The first row of the lace pattern says: K2, *yo, k1, yo, k3, repeat from * to end. I do not have enough stitches for this to come out even. Is there a typo somewhere?"

Well, either Interweave edited my original pattern for space, or they simply made an error, and omitted "end row with k2 instead of k3." Anyway, they now have corrections up on their website, and have essentially restored my original directions.

Felicia also emailed me about the same paragraph in the pattern; she brought up the fact that the number of stitches changes on some of the rows of the lace pattern. IK does mention this in a note just before the directions for working each row of the lace pattern; in my original pattern submission, I added this note at the end of the directions for rows 1 (when the sts are increased) and 3 (when the original number of sts is restored).

So read your directions carefully, knitters! But if you find this part of the "Lutea" pattern confusing, know that you are not alone.