Despite being after March 21st now, the sky had the audacity to produce sufficient white stuff overnight that I had to shovel this morning
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Hee, I didn't take it as patronising :-) I can totally deal with 'aww, look at the naive English girl' because, er, I was naive in assuming the snow would stop before June :-)
We had an April 1st blizzard a few years ago. This morning there was ice in the harbor. You're north of me. Logic dictates that you still have snow.
The thing is that when you knit back, you're probably undoing whatever when wrong (extra wrap round the needle, extra k2tog), so you won't necessarily see it).
I'm good at keeping track of these things, so I rarely break out the stitch markers, but I'm starting a square shawl this weekend that will probably require them.
Mum tells me of a May 1st blizzard here a few months ago. I just got hopeful and lulled by the sunny, beautiful weather last week.
I think that I am undoing whatever goes wrong when I knit back and then re-doing it when I re-knit. Hence ending up with the wrong stitch count even after knitting the same row three times.
I'm suspecting that it was a poor concentration thing. I can't see any easy, logical way of breaking out the stitch markers at this stage because it's a triangular shawl and the location would need to change with every row. I think. There will be a need for them later, to mark the central stitch if nothing else, but right now I can't see it working. Drat. Guess I just need to pay more attention to what I'm doing!
I have done that with lace patterns. Does the pattern specify marker locations when you start, because you can mark off sections that will shift as the number of stitches grows.
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The thing is that when you knit back, you're probably undoing whatever when wrong (extra wrap round the needle, extra k2tog), so you won't necessarily see it).
I'm good at keeping track of these things, so I rarely break out the stitch markers, but I'm starting a square shawl this weekend that will probably require them.
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I think that I am undoing whatever goes wrong when I knit back and then re-doing it when I re-knit. Hence ending up with the wrong stitch count even after knitting the same row three times.
I'm suspecting that it was a poor concentration thing. I can't see any easy, logical way of breaking out the stitch markers at this stage because it's a triangular shawl and the location would need to change with every row. I think. There will be a need for them later, to mark the central stitch if nothing else, but right now I can't see it working. Drat. Guess I just need to pay more attention to what I'm doing!
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