Mmm, garterlac. LOVE IT! This was a quick knit and oh so fun! But it also shows you exactly how different my stitch and row gauges really are, especially in garter stitch. Perhpaps 10 stitches and 8 rows? I see another one in my future :)
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Showing posts with label techniques. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Saturday, January 5, 2008
5/366 - Monkey ladders
This, dear knit sibs, is what happens when you get the idea in your head of minimizing ladders by shifting the stitches over the needles. Instead of 2 loose stitches, you get... many more of them!! Oh, and I learned that its not really the first 2 stitches on the next needle I have a problem with, its the last 2 stitches on the first needle that are crazy loose. I can tell you I'm not doing the shifting thing again. But since its just a pair of socks that will spend most of their life in my shoes, I'm not ripping back... I just want this DONE! I'm about an inch below my toe decreases... almost there!
Lesson learned.
Saturday, November 17, 2007
Tired... zzzzzzzzz...
Phew, I'm tired today! The cooler weather has relented and its back to the upper 70s (sigh). At least I got to wear my mitts for a day. I finished a new pair of longies for Little Bit using the leftovers from Kate... love them. Those colors are rockin'! No pics yet because LB is taking wearing them now, but she taking a nap (yeah!).
I'm also designing a longies pattern that involves all-over ribbing. I'm going to see how the ribbing works re: fit, then I'll spice it up with some cables. I think its safe to say I'm a cable-a-holic. I also need to do some repair work on her Picky Pants Plus (ravelry link), my increases at the gusset have become rather holey and stretched out, so now we get leaks. Its time to learn duplicate stitch I think.
While I'm thinking about it, any ideas on how to do an increase without getting a hole? I've tried kf&b and m1, but I'm still getting holes. I also tried not stacking the increases, but that just made the gusset area messy looking.
Well, I'm back to working on gift knitting... 3 down, 13 to go... plenty of time, right?
I'm also designing a longies pattern that involves all-over ribbing. I'm going to see how the ribbing works re: fit, then I'll spice it up with some cables. I think its safe to say I'm a cable-a-holic. I also need to do some repair work on her Picky Pants Plus (ravelry link), my increases at the gusset have become rather holey and stretched out, so now we get leaks. Its time to learn duplicate stitch I think.
While I'm thinking about it, any ideas on how to do an increase without getting a hole? I've tried kf&b and m1, but I'm still getting holes. I also tried not stacking the increases, but that just made the gusset area messy looking.
Well, I'm back to working on gift knitting... 3 down, 13 to go... plenty of time, right?
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