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Can anyone help with a kintting pattern?

I am working on the Tuck Pattern from the Vogue Knitting Magazine's Winter edition. I understand the "k next st 4 rows below" thing, but the pattern never tells me to decrease that extra stitch later. Has anyone worked on this who can help me out?

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1. You don't need to decrease it. Here's why....it's just the next stitch. Let's say there are 4 stitches on your needle--you've knitted the first stitch and are now told to knit the next stitch 4 rows below. You knit that as though it's your second stitch and pull it off the needle as you finish that stitch. I would suggest a little practice of this stitch though. Take an extra set of needles and a little extra yarn. Cast on about 10 stitches and knit a bunch of rows and then try "k next st 4 rows below". You'll see that when you stick your right hand needle into the stitch 4 rows below, you'll slide the stitch off and won't be adding, so you won't have to decrease it later. I hope that is helpful. Good luck!
2. If you do this correctly, you're not creating an extra stitch, so you won't have to decrease later. When you knit into the 4 rows below, you're doing it *instead* of the one on the needle, and the rows above where you've put the needle in will "ladder down" so the stitch you've just knit will be holding 4 loops. Here's a sketch of what the structure of the knitting should look like, though they have only picked up the stitch from 3 rows below (the chart beside the drawing is how to instruct a machine to do this stitch) http://www.dfmg.com.tw/text/14g.gif