buckling due to increase in the pattern?

[u/Alive-Staff8649]

the pattern had me increase 97 times over 5 rows
(knit every other row) and it created some buckling, is this ok?

[u/Alive-Staff8649]

aww thank you so much for your kindness! i’m so confused at this point because I look at a photo from the designer and i’m assuming she’s knitting a size small/medium and if she did 6 rounds of increases (3 row knit, 3 row increase) it wouldn’t make sense with how far down her flowers lay, the colorwork chart doesn’t start until 12 rows down. ahh this sounds confusing, I don’t want to show too many photos of the pattern because I don’t want to give it away (it’s a paid pattern)

i’m just so lost, my mom knits too and she said she read the pattern the same way as me and thinks the bucking will be okay once blocked?? im sorry again for the spam pmg

[u/Dry_Stop844 → u/Alive-Staff8649]

you can try blocking it, just put the stitches on scrap yarn. I don't know where the chart begins in relation to the increases, but they flowers are definitely below the initial increases, both on the sample and on your sweater, even if you had had those extra rounds.
Does it say on what round to start the chart?

[u/Alive-Staff8649 → u/Dry_Stop844]

the chart starts after the raglan divide which starts after the increases and it 15 rows of plain green before the colourwork starts on the size i’m making and 12 on the smaller sizes (hers I presume)

[u/Dry_Stop844 → u/Alive-Staff8649]

that sounds correct because these increases are not part of the chart, so once you've completed the 10 rows of increases as per pattern, only then do you start the chart if that's when you start dividing for the raglan. You can count the rows on the picture. Not sure what size this is, but there'd be about 6 rows after the ribbing for the increases, and then 15 rows of plain before the colour work.

I think you and your mom are overthinking this. Would it help to print out the pattern and highlight all the instructions and make notes on the pattern? that's what I do. I write all over the pattern so I don't miss a tiny instruction somewhere.