Hi Anne
Please pass onto newbies that whatever a pattern says, always decrease for the point at the front on a ‘V’ neck on every row to the fold line. Especially if you’re knitting in a pattern with horizontal lines. After the fold line, increase on every row for the other half of the band. If the shaping is done on the second stitch from the edge, the mattress stitch join using half the stitch from each side gives the finished appearance of one central stitch. Bye for now, Yvonne