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| Re: Look! Look! Looklooklooklook! [message #50634 is a reply to message #50632 ] |
Sat, 07 July 2012 22:14   |
EMoon
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I am awestruck by the nice shaped spaces for the sleeves. Well, and the whole thing. SO much more than the socks I'm doing (but it's too hot here--way too hot--to have a lap full of wool. The socks don't weigh me down.
We may finally get a little rain this next week, but the last time they predicted good chances for rain, we got none. Fifty miles south, yes. Fifteen miles west, yes. Twenty miles north, yes. Forty miles or so east, yes. But not us. Today the storms have been around, but avoiding us as if we had planetary bad breath or something. And still on Stage 5 water restriction, so I get to watch things die. There may be someone in the universe getting seasonable, reasonable amounts of rain, but clearly it's not you, on the wet end, or us, on the dry end.
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| Re: Look! Look! Looklooklooklook! [message #50637 is a reply to message #50632 ] |
Sat, 07 July 2012 23:20 |
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 Diane in MN
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FANTASTIQUE!! Congrats on being 40% done!!! And it looks very good. And cheers for Chaos deciding (finally) to eat.
I did not like it when I was shifted into every-other-row decreases, because my nice (relatively) smooth curve promptly developed an unsightly zigzag.
The zigzags will disappear when you sew in your sleeves. Did you do your decreases on the edge stitches? If you make them one or two stitches in, your edge line would probably be smoother.
And then I had the joyous task of getting all those frelling little stitches back on a needle before they disintegrated.†† Which, rather to my surprise, I accomplished . . . at the cost of somehow getting most of them on backwards.
Good for you! I have a terrible time getting stitches back on a needle, which is why, after reading about lifelines, I was impressed by what a wonderful idea they are. And I never remember which way to insert the needle so the stitches go on correctly; I'm just grateful to get them on at all. They can, as Fiona said, be untwisted when worked.
surprises about knitting large objects is the way they weigh and take up space. Not just in your Mobile Knitting Unit at concerts and bell practises but in your lap and hanging off the needles. [ . . .] And the drag as the thing accumulates rows has an effect on your knitting.
This is one reason why knitting back-and-forth on circular needles is nice--the weight doesn't drag on your arms and wrists but sits in your lap, on the needle's cable. And nothing sticks out past your elbows to poke your neighbors (or your hellhounds) or hit a wall. Quite a few manufacturers make circular needles with wooden tips. You might like them for your next sweater. 
"The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough . . . " Louise Erdrich
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| Re: Look! Look! Looklooklooklook! [message #50640 is a reply to message #50632 ] |
Sat, 07 July 2012 23:59 |
claning
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When ripping back, I try to always rip back one LESS row than I need to. (So that I have one row too many on the needles when I stop.)
Then, I poke my pickup needle into the stitch just BELOW the loop formed by the loose end of the yarn (which has already "knitted" that stitch) and ONLY THEN do I pull out the loose end.
The stitch has already been captured, before I pull the old yarn out. It cannot possibly escape (and probably won't be backwards either).
(Well actually, mistakes can still happen if I pull the loose end too hard and rip out more than one stitch at a time. But in theory....)
O Chris Laning <claning@igc.org> - Davis, California
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| Re: Look! Look! Looklooklooklook! [message #50641 is a reply to message #50632 ] |
Sun, 08 July 2012 01:13 |
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equus_peduus
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I have found that the best way to deal with dropped stitches or a ripped-back live edge (and I have tried claning's suggestion, but I find that I end up with yarn wrapped all around the needle in an unappealing manner) is to pick up the stitches, ideally with a smaller needle, in whatever manner they happen to pick up in. If that means they're backwards and half the plies didn't make it on the needle, so be it. I will fix that either by slipping all the stitches back onto a proper-sized working needle, or by just working them right one stitch at a time as I start knitting again. But if I try to get all the stitches mounted the right way around, with the whole yarn every time... I tend to drop entire columns of stitches, usually 2-4 stitches wide. It's not pretty.
I am impressed by First Cardi's progress. I have been very afraid of sweaters and cardigans (despite having success with shawls, scarves and socks of varyingly interesting patterns), partly because sweaters and cardigans seem to require pieces (and the ones that don't, still need a way to knit the sleeves and head hole and things). But if you can do it, I think I ought to be able too Perhaps I shall start my own First Cardi sometime soon...
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| Re: Look! Look! Looklooklooklook! [message #50645 is a reply to message #50638 ] |
Sun, 08 July 2012 12:12 |
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| Diane in MN wrote on Sat, 07 July 2012 23:29 |
I like your beret, Jodi. And love those colors. Is the yarn your handspun?
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Thanks! I made it (and a matching scarf) for my mom for her birthday this year. It's merino wool, and yes, handspun. Of course, since she lives in Mississippi, neither of these things will be useful to her for several more months, but still.
(We saw each other this February in Texas and I was wearing a knit beret like that, but in another yarn. She'd told me how much she liked it, and when I told her I wanted to knit something for her for her birthday, she didn't even hesitate. She said, "I want a hat like yours." DONE.)
Smooshes!
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| Re: Look! Look! Looklooklooklook! [message #50646 is a reply to message #50641 ] |
Sun, 08 July 2012 13:56 |
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blondviolinist
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| equus_peduus wrote on Sun, 08 July 2012 01:13 |
I have found that the best way to deal with dropped stitches or a ripped-back live edge... is to pick up the stitches, ideally with a smaller needle, in whatever manner they happen to pick up in. If that means they're backwards and half the plies didn't make it on the needle, so be it. I will fix that either by slipping all the stitches back onto a proper-sized working needle, or by just working them right one stitch at a time as I start knitting again.
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Yep, I agree with this. I often use claning's method of picking up stitches, but sometimes (for any number of reasons) I can't tink back that last row. I'm a hearty believer in getting stitches back on the needles any old how, and figuring things out from there. Everything can be fixed and realigned, as long as all the stitches are secure again.
"Purity of heart is to will one thing." Kirkegaard
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| Re: Look! Look! Looklooklooklook! [message #50647 is a reply to message #50632 ] |
Sun, 08 July 2012 16:03 |
Mockorange
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I want to WEAR THIS THING THAT IS TAKING MORE TIME TO CREATE THAN ANYTHING BUT NOVELS EVER HAS.
Actually, I thought you got that back done pretty swifly. I know there are some very swift knitters reading here, but personally I've been working on MY cardigan / jacket since early March and have still not quite finished the first sleeve.
I didn’t mind the casting-off and knitting-two-stitches-together decreases but I did not like it when I was shifted into every-other-row decreases, because my nice (relatively) smooth curve promptly developed an unsightly zigzag. As you can see in the photo. Feh. So, that will become invisible when I sew the sleeves in . . . theoretically. It’s a good thing wool is stretchy. I’m not convinced, given the semi-matchingness of my first attempt at a pair of shaped armholes, that the opposing pair of armholes plus the sleeves are going to anything LIKE fit together.
I have been shaping the top of my sleeve today and have contrived to do something a bit odd. The pattern called for me to cast off 4 stitches at the start of each of the next two rows. Unfortunately, being slightly distracted by the tennis on television I attempted to cast off 4 stitches at both ends of the row. I ended up with something like a buttonhole. Unpicking turned into a fiasco, partly because I have somewhat fuzzy wool that turns into snags and snarls whenever you try to backtrack, and partly because I'm completely rubbish at unpicking. I ended up with stitches everywhere on two needles and two stitch holders. At one point I thought I was going to lose the lot. I've wodged it all together again somehow and ended up with the correct number of stitches, but it all looks a bit loose and lacy now. I am consoling myself with the reflection that this will be under my armpit as well as caught up in the seam so will hopefully be invisible, but it's a bit frustrating.
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| Re: Look! Look! Looklooklooklook! [message #50648 is a reply to message #50646 ] |
Sun, 08 July 2012 17:59 |
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| blondviolinist wrote on Sun, 08 July 2012 13:56 |
I'm a hearty believer in getting stitches back on the needles any old how, and figuring things out from there. Everything can be fixed and realigned, as long as all the stitches are secure again.
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Yes. Same.
Smooshes!
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| Re: Look! Look! Looklooklooklook! [message #50661 is a reply to message #50654 ] |
Mon, 09 July 2012 10:09 |
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Yes, that's a totally legit way to introduce something. Honestly, he should be impressed you managed that much!
Smooshes!
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