I don't understand that at all. Are the numbers in () typed in the pattern, or are those your calculations? Something is missing here. If you start with 93 stitches on your needle and knit the first row as instructed, what do you do with the other 66 stitches? Or do you repeat the pattern till you get to the end of the row? If so, it doesn't repeat equally.

Well, you cannot say you were not warned!

This pattern is listed at www.Woolworks.org In the pattern index, there is a clear warning - this pattern seems to have an error in it. - I have seen several complaints about it, but it is still listed.

yes, those numbers were already in () so I guess I have to try and work something out.
No, I didn't see the "warning" All I see is the pattern.
Where would the warning be posted?

I haven't knitted anything for a long time and thought maybe something small would get me going again.
And I have found this site to have friendly helpful people on it willing to share their knowledge with others.

So thank you for trying to help.

Could you post the link to the pattern? I'd like to look at it more closely.

Go to www.Woolworks.org, click on "Patterns", then on "miscellaneous projects". The dog coat in question is the third pattern from the top, with a warning that several people have had trouble with it. It may be listed elsewhere, maybe without the warning . .

It is terribly frustrating to start a project and find significant errors in the pattern! I wish I could help . .

When I found this pattern I looked for knitted dog sweaters on Google and found this page from the site.
I didn't actually go to the site and look around.
So that is why I didn't see anything about errors in this pattern.
http://www.woolworks.org/patterns/dogjckt.txt
What I have completed of the sweater looks really cute, but now I have to figure something out for myself. I'm sure I can and if not I will tear it out and crochet one.

Well, I say that there are enough free patterns out there, that I would frog it and try another. I agree with Anne, if there are known problems with a pattern, why waste your time?

Oh, don't take it all out!, instead of only decreasing once, decrease on each side of the sweater. It doesn't really matter how you get to 55 stitches to finish the turtleneck.

All you'd have to do is change this:
Row 1. K24. Sl 1. K2 tog passo K rest (91 stitches)
to this:
Row 1 *K24. Sl 1. K2 tog passo* Repeat.
So you'd just do the first bit twice. Follow the count for each row where it starts out K24, K23, K22, etc., but do the decrease instructions twice per row while ignoring the K rest, P rest part.

That reduces the stitches by 4 for each row. If you do nine rows you'll have reduced by 36. In the tenth row K2 tog at both the decrease points. (Instead of Sl 1. K2 tog passo, just K2 tog) Then you should have your 55 stitches.

Then continue with the ribbing. Hope that helps.

Thank you so much for taking the time to work out the pattern for me.
I don't know enough about it to do that, I would probably just stumble through it.
I was really getting the knitting bug, I couldn't put it down, every time I sat down for a few minutes I grabbed it.
You know, "the just one more row thing" Like reading just one more chapter in a book. :o)

I'm glad it helped. :-) I totally know what you mean about "Just one more row..."