My project as I left Minnesota. It was lovely to be able to knit each day here and there throughout and after bedtime, as I was not in my house so not as much to do. I must knit looser then required for gauge; my project measured a bit wider and I was close to the documented completed length earlier than anticipated. I completed the bottom garter stitch pattern in the car ride home as my lovely Eric drove the whole way.
A closer look where the cables turned to the garter stitch featuring a button hole. Guest appearance of my garage sale gloves that bring out the blue and yellow/peach in the yarn. These gloves are long and feel very soft - like cashmere.
(I may have to cinch the button holes a bit smaller, I think the buttons will fall through as I wear it. As I said, I may knit looser than I'm supposed to.)
Completed laying flat.
Picture taken by me. I know, I know, a neck warmer with a t-shirt looks quite silly, but I was NOT going to put on my winter coat for the full effect. Would you, in 90+ degrees with high humidity? Actually, at that point it was stormy and felt cool, relief that did not last too long.
So what did I learn with this project?
how to knit and purl in the same row
that the cable stitch is quite simple, but looks amazing
once the pattern is established, the project is quite fun and quick
how to knit the garter stitch
how to decrease in knit
how to knit a button hole
I may learn to enjoy knitting more than crochet. That just makes me dually yarnly talented!
4 comments:
That looks great! Beautiful! And Simon did a great job picking out your yarn, too!
Apparently you got your computer problem fixed. What was it?
I looooove it! It looks great! I'm glad you like cables! No one believes they're not as hard as they look! Yours look fabulOus! Also, looks pretty good with the t-shirt if I do say so myself. Might be nice for fall? I'm wondering if tue stitch at the end might be a seed stitch instead of garter? I can't quite tell.
Grandma G- We purchased a separate system to save all photos, to start reducing the memory load on the computer. Then some applications were taken off that always seemed to self-start whenever I plugged my camera into the computer. We took off the portable camera, as that seemed to really slooow down the computer. We tried Skyppe with it, but the computer barely worked at all with Skyppe on it.
Jessica - Why yes, yes it is, it IS indeed the garter stitch. I did not arise from my seat to check the pattern to make sure. You ARE an expert knitter. Not yet automatic with my stitch names. This neck warmer will be great for fall. Fabulous for winter, as a long scarf sometimes get in the way of buckling lil' miss into her car seat.
I am now knitting a curly scarf for my younger sis' who I dragged into a yarn shop for a quick peruse. She spotted some yummy yarn, I spotted a curly scarf pattern. And I have casted on 160 stitches to which 6 rows later, I am at 720. Not that I have counted to confirm. I just found my first hole that must be a dropped stitch. Need to figure how to solve that :( Something with a crochet hook looping up as I go towards the needle? Ughh, my fearful moment of knitting has occurred.
The rate at which you're increasing sounds like you might not be slipping off your base loop which would make it a tighter stitch... Then if you did slip off your base loop it would seem like you dropped a stitch? (rightt needle in through loop, yarn around, loop over, ***left needle out*** repeat) or you could be yarn abounding an extra time which would also give you approximately that many extra stitches and holes...but aren't ruffle scarves supposed to increase dramaticly? As for the slipped stitch... If it's way far back, im never opposed to taking a scrap yarn, tying it around the slipped stitch, anchoring it, and weaving in my ends lol. Once you get mOre practice it'll be easier to understand picking it up.
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