Soaker patterns.

I am having troble with the snapdragon soaker pattern and wonder if there were any other one's people can recomend as i don't have very many soakers for bean

I have only ever used the Snapdragon pattern so unsure which other ones would be good to try.

What are the problems you are having with the snapdragon soaker, maybe I could help?

it never matches up right and i'm rubbish at it i seem to beable to do most of the other things i want to but this one.

What do you mean it doesn't match up right? Do you mean the front and back are different lengths, or that the rise always works out too big?

A bit of both really

Hmm ok.

The back will always be longer than the front as you want extra room in the bum part so that is fine if it is coming up longer at the front than back. I will have another look at the pattern later and see if I can see where you might be going wrong. All the other things you have knitted are gorgeous so you can do a snapdragon soaker I promise

About to cast on with wool that i love and see if that helps

How many short rows are you putting in, try to use 1 less and space them closer to keep the rise smaller, I was having the same probs until I did this. Also changing to a smaller needle size (4 or 4.5) near the bottom helps to keep the rise slightly smaller and also provids a tighter knit around the core area. The front should be a bit shorter than the back.

It also helps to cut some decreases if running out of rise, even if just one or 2 decrease rows = 2 or 4 stitches, it won't make much difference to the crotch width. As long as you have the same number of stitches on the front and back flap to graft together. It will mean more stitches to pick up for leg cuffs though, but a ribbed cuff will help close the gap a little.

I use the Evie pants pattern now, as it has instructions for all woolies and loads of different cuffs, there's not much difference between them though.

Hth

@bekhi1983 i'm only putting one in as that all i read that i do is that were i'm going wrong.