Short knitting post with PS podcast
I don't know if it's too late to change my Ravelympics event, or even if I want to, but I tried the knitting pattern I'd intended and decided I wasn't thrilled enough to live with it for 17 days.
However, I reproduce it here because there's nothing wrong with it, it just wasn't floating my boat.
All edges: bring yarn forward (do not yarn over) and slip last stitch as if to knit. Knit first stitch through back loop. (This is the only version of the chain edge that doesn't tend to slide right back off the needle, as the "slip first stitch" version inevitably does.)
Cast on 29 stitches.
Knit first through back loop, [K4, P4]3 times, K3, yarn forward and slip last stitch.
Repeat.
What you get is a reversible variation on the Prayer Shawl pattern with a single line of stockinette between every two pattern repeats (two lines will go up one side, three up the other.)
I could just do garter for my Ravelympics project, but that seems a waste for that nice teal alpaca.
PS: I have listened to a couple of the Folger Shakespeare podcasts and I think I'm going to pass on a subscription. While there is no other podcast that will get Janet Reno and Walter Mondale reciting Shakespeare, my knee-jerk reaction to lines like "I saw many Iagos in Congress" is "No shit, Sherlock!"
However, I reproduce it here because there's nothing wrong with it, it just wasn't floating my boat.
All edges: bring yarn forward (do not yarn over) and slip last stitch as if to knit. Knit first stitch through back loop. (This is the only version of the chain edge that doesn't tend to slide right back off the needle, as the "slip first stitch" version inevitably does.)
Cast on 29 stitches.
Knit first through back loop, [K4, P4]3 times, K3, yarn forward and slip last stitch.
Repeat.
What you get is a reversible variation on the Prayer Shawl pattern with a single line of stockinette between every two pattern repeats (two lines will go up one side, three up the other.)
I could just do garter for my Ravelympics project, but that seems a waste for that nice teal alpaca.
PS: I have listened to a couple of the Folger Shakespeare podcasts and I think I'm going to pass on a subscription. While there is no other podcast that will get Janet Reno and Walter Mondale reciting Shakespeare, my knee-jerk reaction to lines like "I saw many Iagos in Congress" is "No shit, Sherlock!"