30 Days of Knitting - Day 2
Day 2: What is currently on your needles?
Right now I am mainly knitting a commission for my friend Jon - a Dr Who scarf, as worn by Tom Baker in series 12.5. I'm making it in Rowan Pure Wool DK, 15 balls in total and it will be 9 feet long unblocked. Normally garter stitch tends to only show the purl rows, but in the TV show the knit rows between the purl rows could be easily seen so I will need to hang or stretch the scarf when I block it to achieve that look. This will make the scarf longer than 9 feet but I don't know by how much yet.
The last finishing touch will be the tassels. I've not done tassels before, but there are some great instructions and a video on the website and it looks very simple to do.
Sadly I noticed last night that I dropped a stitch about 175 rows back but I still had the right number on the next row up, so I must've dropped it, noticed right away, picked it up but not reknitted the row it had dropped from. Fixing dropped stitches in garter stitch is massively annoying because you have to keep taking the crochet hook out to either turn the hook or the work after you pick up each row. After spotting that mistake, I counted my stitches for my own sanity and realised that I was still a stitch down so I traced up from the beginning of the scarf and found that I had completely dropped another stitch about 190 rows back. That's going to be so much harder to fix because I'm going to have to pull enough slack out of each row to make up the missing stitch. Ugh :( It's very unlike me, I've hardly ever dropped a stitch in the 3 years that I've been knitting so I don't know what's made me start now!
Anyway, once that faff is sorted (I foresee hours bent over my crochet hook!) I'm almost 40% done. I should get lots more done over my Christmas holiday.
Day 1: What was your first finished project?
Day 2: What is currently on your needles?
Day 3: Do you have any other WIPs (works in progress)?
Day 4: How did you learn how to knit?
Day 5: How long did it take from the time your learned how to knit, to finish your first project?
Day 6: What is your favorite piece that you’ve knit?
Day 7: Your least favorite?
Day 8: What’s your most challenging project?
Day 9: What fiber or yarn do you love working with?
Day 10: Do you have a favorite pattern or designer?
Day 11: Do you have a “Knitter Hero” or someone that is just way too awesome for their own good? Do share!
Day 12: Where do you keep your stash? Post pictures!
Day 13: Do you have yarn that you love but can’t find a project for?
Day 14: What’s the worst yarn/fiber that you’ve worked with and why?*
Day 15: What was your least favorite pattern and why?*
Day 16: Have you ever had a knitting related injury?
Day 17: Have you ever had a project that you loved become ruined? What’s the story behind it?
Day 18: Do you knit English or Continental?
Day 19: Do you watch movies and/or listen to podcasts while knitting? What are your favorite things to knit to?
Day 20: Do you knit in public? Was anyone offended/incredibly happy/curious that you were doing so?
Day 21: Do you knit gifts for friends and family for the holidays or birthdays?
Day 22: Have you ever stricken someone off your to-knit-for list because they didn’t appreciate/take care of your last knitted gift to them?
Day 23: If you had the supplies (and patience) for it, what project would you start today?
Day 24: Have you ever made your own pattern or dyed your own yarn? How did it turn out?
Day 25: Do you have a knitting book or a place where you keep patterns, ideas, size measurements? Post a picture of it!
Day 26: Have you ever been a part, or wanted to be a part of a knit-a-long? What was it? If not, why?
Day 27: How do you acquire most of yarn? Online retailers, local yarn shops, swaps, or large chain craft stores? What’s your favorite?
Day 28: Do you do any other crafts besides knitting? What are they, and did learning to knit come before or after learning these other crafts?
Day 29: Do you have any tips, or things that you’ve learned from knitting?
Day 30: What’s your name on Ravelry? If you don’t have a Ravelry account, why?
Right now I am mainly knitting a commission for my friend Jon - a Dr Who scarf, as worn by Tom Baker in series 12.5. I'm making it in Rowan Pure Wool DK, 15 balls in total and it will be 9 feet long unblocked. Normally garter stitch tends to only show the purl rows, but in the TV show the knit rows between the purl rows could be easily seen so I will need to hang or stretch the scarf when I block it to achieve that look. This will make the scarf longer than 9 feet but I don't know by how much yet.
The last finishing touch will be the tassels. I've not done tassels before, but there are some great instructions and a video on the website and it looks very simple to do.
Sadly I noticed last night that I dropped a stitch about 175 rows back but I still had the right number on the next row up, so I must've dropped it, noticed right away, picked it up but not reknitted the row it had dropped from. Fixing dropped stitches in garter stitch is massively annoying because you have to keep taking the crochet hook out to either turn the hook or the work after you pick up each row. After spotting that mistake, I counted my stitches for my own sanity and realised that I was still a stitch down so I traced up from the beginning of the scarf and found that I had completely dropped another stitch about 190 rows back. That's going to be so much harder to fix because I'm going to have to pull enough slack out of each row to make up the missing stitch. Ugh :( It's very unlike me, I've hardly ever dropped a stitch in the 3 years that I've been knitting so I don't know what's made me start now!
Anyway, once that faff is sorted (I foresee hours bent over my crochet hook!) I'm almost 40% done. I should get lots more done over my Christmas holiday.
Day 1: What was your first finished project?
Day 2: What is currently on your needles?
Day 3: Do you have any other WIPs (works in progress)?
Day 4: How did you learn how to knit?
Day 5: How long did it take from the time your learned how to knit, to finish your first project?
Day 6: What is your favorite piece that you’ve knit?
Day 7: Your least favorite?
Day 8: What’s your most challenging project?
Day 9: What fiber or yarn do you love working with?
Day 10: Do you have a favorite pattern or designer?
Day 11: Do you have a “Knitter Hero” or someone that is just way too awesome for their own good? Do share!
Day 12: Where do you keep your stash? Post pictures!
Day 13: Do you have yarn that you love but can’t find a project for?
Day 14: What’s the worst yarn/fiber that you’ve worked with and why?*
Day 15: What was your least favorite pattern and why?*
Day 16: Have you ever had a knitting related injury?
Day 17: Have you ever had a project that you loved become ruined? What’s the story behind it?
Day 18: Do you knit English or Continental?
Day 19: Do you watch movies and/or listen to podcasts while knitting? What are your favorite things to knit to?
Day 20: Do you knit in public? Was anyone offended/incredibly happy/curious that you were doing so?
Day 21: Do you knit gifts for friends and family for the holidays or birthdays?
Day 22: Have you ever stricken someone off your to-knit-for list because they didn’t appreciate/take care of your last knitted gift to them?
Day 23: If you had the supplies (and patience) for it, what project would you start today?
Day 24: Have you ever made your own pattern or dyed your own yarn? How did it turn out?
Day 25: Do you have a knitting book or a place where you keep patterns, ideas, size measurements? Post a picture of it!
Day 26: Have you ever been a part, or wanted to be a part of a knit-a-long? What was it? If not, why?
Day 27: How do you acquire most of yarn? Online retailers, local yarn shops, swaps, or large chain craft stores? What’s your favorite?
Day 28: Do you do any other crafts besides knitting? What are they, and did learning to knit come before or after learning these other crafts?
Day 29: Do you have any tips, or things that you’ve learned from knitting?
Day 30: What’s your name on Ravelry? If you don’t have a Ravelry account, why?