Attention Deficit Knitting
Seriously, i have so many things i want to try that it's hard to keep focused on one thing. I messed around briefly with knitting up some swatches of the shrinkable wool i've got, so that i could try out some felting. However, it turns out that i bought the wrong thickness of yarn. I bought medium-weight (4) yarn and my looms really need bulky/super-bulky (5 or 6) weights. If i knit using the single stitch (which i think is also called twisted-knit), it's a much looser result and i actually think it'd felt up just fine, however a regular knit is kind of silly looking. I get fairly teeny little v's with long strings between each vertical row of v's. I think that you can use two strands of a medium-weight yarn and get better results so i may have to try that but i just didn't feel like ripping out the regular knit stuff and starting over. Also, the "long looms" claim to be regular gauge so i might have to try knitting on those with a single strand and see if it makes a difference. Basically i had done enough research knitting and felt the need to Make Something, after which i can come back and experiment some more.
So on Tuesday evening i started working on knitting up a poncho for Daughterpinx. It's
a cute little pattern from my Knitting Loom primer book and it's really not very complicated. It features a "mock cable" stitch, and i've gotten far enough on it that i can see the effect -- it's pretty nifty! I had already bought some super-bulky yarn specifically for that project and it's taking up a lot of space in my yarn basket so i might as well get cracking on it. :-) So far so good! I've been using some of the stitch markers i bought to help me remember which pegs are purl, which are knits, and which are the special "twist" knit. Now all i need is a way to remember which row of the 4-row repeating pattern i'm on. Last night i grabbed 4 coins and i would just toss one in front of me in a pile every time i finished a row. After i had all 4 in the pile, i'd remove 3 of them and start over. Low-tech but it seems to be working...
So on Tuesday evening i started working on knitting up a poncho for Daughterpinx. It's
a cute little pattern from my Knitting Loom primer book and it's really not very complicated. It features a "mock cable" stitch, and i've gotten far enough on it that i can see the effect -- it's pretty nifty! I had already bought some super-bulky yarn specifically for that project and it's taking up a lot of space in my yarn basket so i might as well get cracking on it. :-) So far so good! I've been using some of the stitch markers i bought to help me remember which pegs are purl, which are knits, and which are the special "twist" knit. Now all i need is a way to remember which row of the 4-row repeating pattern i'm on. Last night i grabbed 4 coins and i would just toss one in front of me in a pile every time i finished a row. After i had all 4 in the pile, i'd remove 3 of them and start over. Low-tech but it seems to be working...