Knitting, we hates it.
I am getting so frazzled by my failures in learning to do colour knitting. I've ripped my project back enough times now that the wool is in rather bad shape and will need washing, or simply throwing out.
I am doing the right moves for the two handed technique and I know how to weave. But I just can't get the tension right and stop it looking all lumpy and uneven, and having big stitches loom out all over the place and having the yarn behind showing through in a most unpleasant way.
My latest attempt was a middle way, and the worst so far: I was weaving every fourth or fifth stitch. This didn't help with consistency. And also, as I discovered in one little sentence amongst all the stuff I've started reading now (I'll confess I tend to try stuff on minimal reading and go to the reading when I'm tearing my hair out) - the fact that I was doing weaves on the same stitches on multiple rows did not help with the visibility problem.
But when I wasn't weaving religiously, just twisting the floats, I was getting tangled all over the place. Unfortunately, this pattern has long stretches in one colour. And everyone basically says that You can't do stranded knitting this way, go intarsia but trust me, it's not an intarsia pattern, the patternmaker certainly hasn't done it this way.
I'm not going to rip what I've done back any furhter until/unless I know what I'm doing with the next attempt, I'm starting from scratch. I may end up with two items: one which is stranded and floats twisted, and one which is religiously woven a la philospher's wool company. Pah.
And bloody Elisabeth Zimmerman can go take her personable and chatty style and shove it where the sun don't shine. Long floats not a problem indeed, screw you lady, and the sheep you rode in on.
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That was all clear wasn't it? Yes, I am rocking in my chair and banging this keyboard very hard as I type. This is really, really bugging the shit out of me. And no I don't have my fucking period yet.
Am about to buy a pdf
(and I must say, in a briefly not-angry moment, how much I love that we can do this now. Really, it's great. It comes in book form, mailed to your door or purchased in a real shop if you want..but cheaper and immediate as a pdf. Who needs flying cars? The future is here today)
...but anyway, back to the cranky, I'm about to buy a pdf about stranded colour knitting which apparently includes stuff on tension, but it also includes enough other stuff that repeats a whole lot of info I've got elsewhere already(in fact, that appears in every intro to colour knitting) so I'm half expecting only a brief mention of the problem I'm facing and not necessarily anything new. But I am desperate. Soooo desperate. Will do one final check of all my knitting books first.
I am doing the right moves for the two handed technique and I know how to weave. But I just can't get the tension right and stop it looking all lumpy and uneven, and having big stitches loom out all over the place and having the yarn behind showing through in a most unpleasant way.
My latest attempt was a middle way, and the worst so far: I was weaving every fourth or fifth stitch. This didn't help with consistency. And also, as I discovered in one little sentence amongst all the stuff I've started reading now (I'll confess I tend to try stuff on minimal reading and go to the reading when I'm tearing my hair out) - the fact that I was doing weaves on the same stitches on multiple rows did not help with the visibility problem.
But when I wasn't weaving religiously, just twisting the floats, I was getting tangled all over the place. Unfortunately, this pattern has long stretches in one colour. And everyone basically says that You can't do stranded knitting this way, go intarsia but trust me, it's not an intarsia pattern, the patternmaker certainly hasn't done it this way.
I'm not going to rip what I've done back any furhter until/unless I know what I'm doing with the next attempt, I'm starting from scratch. I may end up with two items: one which is stranded and floats twisted, and one which is religiously woven a la philospher's wool company. Pah.
And bloody Elisabeth Zimmerman can go take her personable and chatty style and shove it where the sun don't shine. Long floats not a problem indeed, screw you lady, and the sheep you rode in on.
~~~
That was all clear wasn't it? Yes, I am rocking in my chair and banging this keyboard very hard as I type. This is really, really bugging the shit out of me. And no I don't have my fucking period yet.
Am about to buy a pdf
(and I must say, in a briefly not-angry moment, how much I love that we can do this now. Really, it's great. It comes in book form, mailed to your door or purchased in a real shop if you want..but cheaper and immediate as a pdf. Who needs flying cars? The future is here today)
...but anyway, back to the cranky, I'm about to buy a pdf about stranded colour knitting which apparently includes stuff on tension, but it also includes enough other stuff that repeats a whole lot of info I've got elsewhere already(in fact, that appears in every intro to colour knitting) so I'm half expecting only a brief mention of the problem I'm facing and not necessarily anything new. But I am desperate. Soooo desperate. Will do one final check of all my knitting books first.