So I finally finished branching out. Not that too many people other than me read this but in the interest of reminding myself of this should I ever get crazy enough choose to do the pattern again, here are my thoughts:
- Choose an easily tinked yarn. I made a bad yarn choice and paid for it. Its lovely now but it was a bit sticky with the alpaca. I’d go for something with silk.
- Lifelines are your best friend use them often.
- If like me, you are a ridiculously tight knitter use an interchangeable set to make those k3tog’s easier.
- It is not tv knitting. It can be music knitting but it went fastest when I was just knitting with no distractions. I did not try an audio book.
- get a whole hell of alot of blocking pins.
- Print out the pattern and just the pattern in a large font with lots of space between the rows so you can easily see where you are and what you are doing.
Obviously this is before I blocked it.
Just as obviously this is after I blocked it.
Anyway…I had some extra money this past week so I got the yarn for that scarf style thing. Hot damn I love touch me but gah is it the worlds most over priced yarn. I also got wick for a scarf for the husband. So I will continue to work on my socks and I will be working on a scarf for the husband. I’m sort of tempted to just do garter stitch since its fast and simple and really its not so much a fashion thing as a utilitarian thing. Plus its tv knitting;) But I’ll have to take a good long look at my stitch dictionaries first. Well I’d best get back to spring cleaning.
It looks FANTASTIC Jen.!!!!
cool lace patterned scarf there jen. going to have to get another website going so we can post our feats too. see ya monday