Ok this looks much better than what I originally knit. I finally figured out what I was doing wrong. After many failed searches on Google I finally entered in the right phrase of words, “cluster 5″ -crochet knit, that led me to this post by darn knit.

The directions wrapping yarn twice around needle for each st is where I screwed up. I thought: why did they write that all funny? That’s a yarn over. Why didn’t they write yarn over? Well HELLO!! Because it’s not a yarn over. They meant stick your needle in to do a knit or purl and instead of just wrapping the yarn once like usual wrap it twice. It’s so simple now that I know what they meant. I am an IDIOT!

Now it’s looking like it’s supposed to!