No branch can bear fruit without being vitally united to the vine.
A KAL where you knit a portion of a stole each week, for six weeks, and hopefully have a completed stole at the end of the thing.
A KAL where you knit a portion of a stole each week, for six weeks, and hopefully have a completed stole at the end of the thing.
after spending last week frogging back to row one, I am now up to row 31. yahoo.
I can tell it will be a beautiful stole, and I know the yarn choice and needles are working well together, because the stitch definition is very nice and the pattern is showing very well.
man, I am soooo far behind, what with camping and computer meltdowns and all.
I have tried to devise a method to both follow and read smoothly from a chart that is 99 stitches long and that took some effort. My poor eyes see everything as too itty bitty these days, so I spent the time re-charting on larger graph paper, so that I might see the chart instructions properly.
Than, I ended up with 3 taped together sheets that measure 26″ in length. Not exactly lap sized. so I took a huge cork board from the office and put everything up on it. My new charts for the blind, the legend, and the corrections. Since I no longer needed the printed charts, I cut and taped them together and placed them on the cork too, now I can see the whole thing unfolding at a glance.
The whole corkboard is placed upon two couch pillows on top of the coffee table and I just tilt it forward when I am knitting and push back when I am not.
works for me. just another example of how unconventional I am.
I have swatched and swatched and swatched and then swatched some more.
I tried every kind of yarn that I had enough of and realized that I cannot knit over a thousand yards of:
wool or mohair
on
size 3 or less needles.
either my skin can't deal or my eyes can't deal.
Gave it up and went to LYS to wander around for new, anti-wool, anti-mohair, anti-tiny weeny needles, inspiration. Finally swatched with a cotton fingering yarn in bright colors meant for making baby stuff with. and it works and I can do it. So there.
I've joined my first ever group and kal!!! It's mystery stole 2 brought to us by pink lemon twist. (see blogroll) It is to be a lace stole and since I have no lace wt. yarn I needed to find some. Since I had very little in my budget, I first went to my local Goodwill, thinking I could find a sweater to frog for the yarn (always an affordable option). SCORE!!! I found a whole gi'normous bag of lace wt. yarn, wool, mohair, in cream and cherry and rosy reds, intact–with ball bands– enough to make 3 stoles….Yah. and it costs a whopping $4.99 !!!
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