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Knitting Friday
This is the pattern you must try:
http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEss10/PATTsummit.php
and here is a picture of this Summit shawl on practice yarn:
This sample is not blocked.
In fact, the sample was coming out so well that I stopped the sample and started on the "real" shawl with US 5 needles and Knit Picks Palette (fingering) in a royal blue, a color similar to the Knitty shawl.
I have to tell you that these instructions are so well-written. If you follow them religiously, I don't think you will make a mistake. But, if you make a mistake, it seems you can fix it more easily than regular shawl knitting since you seem to be knitting in separate modules which are joined as you go along.
If you look at the Knitty Summit shawl, you can see the horizontal threads which you achieve by dropping stitches at intervals. Just a tip: if you have to rip out a section and you have already dropped the stitch (you'll understand this once you start the pattern), just use a crochet hook to work the dropped stitch back up to the needle. Then rip out to your mistake, rework the section and drop the stitch again.
Be sure to use a row marker for angst-free work. The pattern, once you get started, is two rows (one K, one P) of a "pattern" - either dropping a stitch or YO and about 4 rounds in stockinette; except for the last column in each row. If forget which row you are on but you remember that every dropped stitch produces 9 horizontal threads (so if you drop a stitch and get only 7 threads you know you didn't knit enough stockinette rows) you can pretty easily find your place.
And finally, learn how to knit backwards for this project. It's a great plus. Here's a good site for learning:
http://www.wolfandturtle.net/Yarnpath/index.php/Yarnpath/knitting_backwards/
http://www.jimmybeanswool.com/secure-html/onlineec/instructionalArticle.asp?iaid=15
Each site has slightly different instructions. Here's how I knitted backwards.
1. You're looking at your work on the knit side with the left needle on the left and the right needle on the right (or their tips if you use circs) and the working yarn coming from the back of the right needle.
2. Take your left needle and put it left to right in the back loop of the first stitch on the right needle.
3. So now you have crossed needles - the right needle on top facing left ( \ ) and the left needle on the bottom is facing right (/ ). And, the first stitch "on" both needles.
4. With your right hand, take your working yarn behind the left needle, up between X of the two needles and around the left needle only. The working yarn will trail off to the right.
5. So facing the knit side of your work, you are looking at crossed needles with the original first stitch in the front and the yarn you just worked around the left needle in the back.
6. Now you are ready to make your backward knit stitch.
7. With your left needle as the guiding needle, take the yarn you just wrapped around the left needle through the middle of that original first stitch and onto the left needle as a regular stitch.
8. Now you should be looking at the crossed needles (facing the same way but the left needle may be on top now), with a knitted backward stitch as the first stitch on the left needle and the original first stitch as the first stitch on the right needle.
9. Since you have made your first knitted backward stitch and it's on the left needle, you don't need that original first stitch so just slip it up and off the tip of the right needle.
10. Keep repeating this for as many stitches as listed.
In the beginning at least, I found it helpful to say: In knitting backwards, the left needle does the work.
I would suggest purling regularly the first time you purl the just cast-on stitches. (Like Knit 12, CO 5, T. Purl back.) I found them difficult to manage in knitting backwards over them the first time. Of course, if I had better needles.........
And finally, here is a second picture of my recent spate of top down knitted pullovers and tops:
I made this cardi to check out patterns. Those are rows of seed stitch on the yoke and hem. Once I decided I liked that look, I made one in gray cotton for the summer. (Picture next week.)
And now, I must leave because the service dog arrives today! I will have pictures of a dog on my blog! Happy days!
Happy knitting.
http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEss10/PATTsummit.php
and here is a picture of this Summit shawl on practice yarn:
This sample is not blocked.
In fact, the sample was coming out so well that I stopped the sample and started on the "real" shawl with US 5 needles and Knit Picks Palette (fingering) in a royal blue, a color similar to the Knitty shawl.
I have to tell you that these instructions are so well-written. If you follow them religiously, I don't think you will make a mistake. But, if you make a mistake, it seems you can fix it more easily than regular shawl knitting since you seem to be knitting in separate modules which are joined as you go along.
If you look at the Knitty Summit shawl, you can see the horizontal threads which you achieve by dropping stitches at intervals. Just a tip: if you have to rip out a section and you have already dropped the stitch (you'll understand this once you start the pattern), just use a crochet hook to work the dropped stitch back up to the needle. Then rip out to your mistake, rework the section and drop the stitch again.
Be sure to use a row marker for angst-free work. The pattern, once you get started, is two rows (one K, one P) of a "pattern" - either dropping a stitch or YO and about 4 rounds in stockinette; except for the last column in each row. If forget which row you are on but you remember that every dropped stitch produces 9 horizontal threads (so if you drop a stitch and get only 7 threads you know you didn't knit enough stockinette rows) you can pretty easily find your place.
And finally, learn how to knit backwards for this project. It's a great plus. Here's a good site for learning:
http://www.wolfandturtle.net/Yarnpath/index.php/Yarnpath/knitting_backwards/
http://www.jimmybeanswool.com/secure-html/onlineec/instructionalArticle.asp?iaid=15
Each site has slightly different instructions. Here's how I knitted backwards.
1. You're looking at your work on the knit side with the left needle on the left and the right needle on the right (or their tips if you use circs) and the working yarn coming from the back of the right needle.
2. Take your left needle and put it left to right in the back loop of the first stitch on the right needle.
3. So now you have crossed needles - the right needle on top facing left ( \ ) and the left needle on the bottom is facing right (/ ). And, the first stitch "on" both needles.
4. With your right hand, take your working yarn behind the left needle, up between X of the two needles and around the left needle only. The working yarn will trail off to the right.
5. So facing the knit side of your work, you are looking at crossed needles with the original first stitch in the front and the yarn you just worked around the left needle in the back.
6. Now you are ready to make your backward knit stitch.
7. With your left needle as the guiding needle, take the yarn you just wrapped around the left needle through the middle of that original first stitch and onto the left needle as a regular stitch.
8. Now you should be looking at the crossed needles (facing the same way but the left needle may be on top now), with a knitted backward stitch as the first stitch on the left needle and the original first stitch as the first stitch on the right needle.
9. Since you have made your first knitted backward stitch and it's on the left needle, you don't need that original first stitch so just slip it up and off the tip of the right needle.
10. Keep repeating this for as many stitches as listed.
In the beginning at least, I found it helpful to say: In knitting backwards, the left needle does the work.
I would suggest purling regularly the first time you purl the just cast-on stitches. (Like Knit 12, CO 5, T. Purl back.) I found them difficult to manage in knitting backwards over them the first time. Of course, if I had better needles.........
And finally, here is a second picture of my recent spate of top down knitted pullovers and tops:
I made this cardi to check out patterns. Those are rows of seed stitch on the yoke and hem. Once I decided I liked that look, I made one in gray cotton for the summer. (Picture next week.)And now, I must leave because the service dog arrives today! I will have pictures of a dog on my blog! Happy days!
Happy knitting.
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