I'm confused. I'm reading up on lace knitting and fagotting stitches sound confusing to me.

The book I'm reading says you take 2 stitches and turn it into 1. It's the way they're saying it. It says, "bring the thread to the purled position, i.e. to the front of the work. Then take the thread back over the neeedle and around to the front again & P2 tog. However the "over twice" instead of actually making 2 overs, as might seem the case, meant the same as making an "over" before a purled stitch. This happened because the thread usually was in back of the work after a knitted stitch, and had to be brought forward before the real "over" was made. There are two motions of the right hand, but the result is only one stitch."

Huh? Can someone please explain this in English & not Greek? To me, this just says YO twice and P2. Is there more to it than this? Am I missing something here?

Thanks for any help.

Shari

Yo once and p2 or k2 tog. Someone is putting too many words in their directions. The point they are trying to make is that with a yo on the purl side of things It looks like you wrap it twice. you dont. Try the directions with needles in hand. a lot of times it won't make sense just reading but it will with the needles.
Best of good fortune with your lace
Dances

This just harks back to a previous coment I made following a question about pattern writing. Clear instructions are an absolute must.

The Faggot [meaning a bundle of sticks] is a feature of true lace. That is described as solid areas separated by single threads.

For simple swatch in knit only, double sided lace, cast on six sts. Every row: K3, yarn forward, K2tog, K1.

Now to change this to a non-reversible lace:
Right side rows: K2, yarn forward, SKPO [slip one, knit one, pass slip stitch over] K1
Wrong side rows: K1, P2, Yarn round needle, P2tog, K1

It was the porly described YRN, yarn round needle that was throwing you.

Have fun.

Best wishes, John

Once again I'll say writing instructions is really, really hard. Showing someone is easy, but writing down what you do so someone else can follow it is another matter! What makes sense to me probably doesn't make sense to you and when I try to write down everything it is even more likely to confuse things.