Very Pretty Vandyke Border

From the Project Gutenberg version of Exercises in Knitting by Cornelia Mee.

Errata noted:

  • Row 10, missing the first knit 1 (between the stitches worked into the double yarnovers).

I'm not sure why there are slipped stitches at the starts of rows 2 and 6 but not at the starts of any other WS rows. I suspect they could be worked as plain knit stitches quite nicely.

Shown with a cast-on count of 10 stitches.   Getting chart...

  • Row 1 (RS): Sl1 wyif, k1, yo, k2tog, k1, yo, k2tog, yo, yo, k2tog, k1 (11 sts).
  • Row 2: Sl1 wyif, k1, k1, p1, k2, yo, k2tog, k1, yo, k2tog.
  • Row 3: Sl1 wyif, k1, yo, k2tog, k1, yo, k2tog, k4.
  • Row 4: Yo, k4, k2, yo, k2tog, k1, yo, k2tog (12 sts).
  • Row 5: Sl1 wyif, k1, yo, k2tog, k1, yo, k2tog, [yo] twice, k2tog, [yo] twice, k2tog, k1 (14 sts).
  • Row 6: Sl1 wyif, k1, k1, p1, k1, k1, p1, k2, yo, k2tog, k1, yo, k2tog.
  • Row 7: Sl1 wyif, [k1, yo, k2tog] twice, k7.
  • Row 8: K9, yo, k2tog, k1, yo, k2tog.
  • Row 9: Sl1 wyif, [k1, yo, k2tog] twice, [yo, yo, k2tog] 3 times, k1 (17 sts).
  • Row 10: K2, k1, p1, k2, p1, k2, p1, k2, yo, k2tog, k1, yo, k2tog.
  • Row 11: Sl1 wyif, [k1, yo, k2tog] twice, k10.
  • Row 12: K3, k2tog, k5, k2, yo, k2tog, k1, yo, k2tog (16 sts).
  • Row 13: Sl1 wyif, [k1, yo, k2tog] twice, [yo, yo, k2tog] 4 times, k1 (20 sts).
  • Row 14: K2, k1, p1, [k2, p1] 3 times, k2, yo, k2tog, k1, yo, k2tog.
  • Row 15: Sl1 wyif, [k1, yo, k2tog] twice, k13.
  • Row 16: K3, k2tog, k3, k2tog, k5, yo, k2tog, k1, yo, k2tog (18 sts).
  • Row 17: Sl1 wyif, [k1, yo, k2tog] twice, [yo, yo, k2tog] 5 times, k1 (23 sts).
  • Row 18: K2, k1, p1, [k1, k1, p1] 4 times, k2, yo, k2tog, k1, yo, k2tog.
  • Row 19: Sl1 wyif, [k1, yo, k2tog] twice, k16.
  • Row 20: BO 13 sts, k4, yo, k2tog, k1, yo, k2tog (10 sts).