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Thanks. I did try to pick up the dropped stitch last night but got in such a muddle and so frustrated I ended up making it loads worse. Will take a look at those videos tonight. I think the problem is that there are about 140 stitches on the needle so it's all really squashed and fiddly. God knows why i chose a hat pattern that's done on 2 needles rather than circular ones or 4 of them :mad:
 
My hat is rescued :cool: Thanks for the advice everyone. It took several hours last night and i had to try (and fail) a few times, but I'm back on track now.
Boyf may actually get his hat by christmas if he's lucky...:hmm::D
 
um, knitting a jumper for eldest son who has now announced he wants a shoulder fastening (so the neckline can continue a bit tighter than the one in my pattern). Am doing a saddle shoulder (I think it is called) with sort of half raglan and the sleeves continue on towards the neckline. The great thing is it means no sewing (all done as tubes on circular needles) but am now worrying that I will not be able to work out the shoulder placket (is that the term?) for a fastening on one side. Any ideas? Can I just separate the shoulder seams and add on a buttonhole bit like a cardigan? Sorry to just chime in with a ridiculous query but this wool cost me a fortune so am not inclined to take dicy short cuts (my usual method of trying stuff out). What would the keywords be if I looked on Ravelry - shoulder fastening?
 
Yes you can do it that way - add a button band to one side and a buttonhole band to the other, by picking up the stitches and knitting a few rows in rib. Or you could even put a nice chunky brass zip in, if you could find one the right length.
 
Debbie FUCKING Bliss! :mad: just spent the best part of an hour untangling a brand new ball of 4 ply before I could even start knitting. And there are 2 knotted joins in the wool in the first 20 yards. I do not know how that woman gets away with it. BITCH. :mad: :mad:
 
i'm trying to pick back up some socks i started for the girls longer ago than i care to remember. have the larger ones done except for the kitchinering and as luck would have it they still look the right size. i have one smaller one that i've got as far as turning the heel. but a) i can't work out for the life of me exactly where i am in the pattern (i found the right one on my puter which was a miracle in itself :D) and b) i think i've forgotten how to read a pattern and c) i think i may have actually forgotten how to knit :facepalm:

my poor poor brain :(:D

eta: i also have no idea what size i'm making :facepalm: first step count the stitches i think :D
 
the socks are coming on fine, should only be a couple more days work, so i started a scarf for me and i'd really appreciate some help with the pattern.

here's the chart, which looks as though pattern B has 10 rows, pattern C has 15 rows, so should match up 3 B with 2 C (it's kitchinered together to make a cowl, so the pattern specifies you should complete both patterns at the end)

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and looking at the pics it appears to fit that 3:2 repeat

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but adding in a final row of purling back across makes pattern C sixteen rows meaning it'll take forever for them to match up. am i reading the pattern wrong? is it a mistake? i'm not clued up enough to fix it if so. can anyone suggest a tweak that would make it work?
 
wayward bob said:
the socks are coming on fine, should only be a couple more days work, so i started a scarf for me and i'd really appreciate some help with the pattern.

here's the chart, which looks as though pattern B has 10 rows, pattern C has 15 rows, so should match up 3 B with 2 C (it's kitchinered together to make a cowl, so the pattern specifies you should complete both patterns at the end)


and looking at the pics it appears to fit that 3:2 repeat


but adding in a final row of purling back across makes pattern C sixteen rows meaning it'll take forever for them to match up. am i reading the pattern wrong? is it a mistake? i'm not clued up enough to fix it if so. can anyone suggest a tweak that would make it work?
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How many repeats does it say you should do?
 
it doesn't specify. i've given up on the idea of tweaking it and if i don't finish dead on i'm not that worried. i've never kitchinered lace, would it be seamless if the patterns did match? it'll give an 8:5 repeat which is about 7 inches so i'll see how i'm doing for length when i get towards the end of the yarn.
 
wayward bob said:
it doesn't specify. i've given up on the idea of tweaking it and if i don't finish dead on i'm not that worried. i've never kitchinered lace, would it be seamless if the patterns did match? it'll give an 8:5 repeat which is about 7 inches so i'll see how i'm doing for length when i get towards the end of the yarn.
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Yeah I would just go with the flow. Can't do the maths tbh. It's one of those knitting moments which is just pure maths.

I've never kitchenered lace either, but I'm assuming your first row is a provisional cast on, and your last row would be a purl row, so actually you wouldn't be dealing with any yarnovers or whatever when kitchenering. It should look pretty seamless I'd think. Does it matter if there's a bit of a wiggle at the seam though? You could put it at the back of the neck.
 
cheers rubes. yeah, provisional cast on. i'd be rather chuffed if it was seamless but hopefully it'll be long enough to go around a couple of times in which case it'll never show anyway. i'm enjoying the pattern, reasonably easy to memorise but taking enough attention to be properly absorbing :)
 
Hellsbells said:
does anyone know anywhere i can buy knitting needles near Holloway road? There seems to be so few independant shops around these days & i really don't want to go all the way to John Lewis.
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I'm quite late to this :oops: :D so quite possibly moot (or future reference...)

Selby on Holloway road has a haberdashery bit upstairs. They sell stuff. (Selby is the same as morleys in Brixton). Also there's rolls and rems on the Holloway road end of seven sisters road but I don't know if they're any good for knitting stuff.
 
I <3 this thread :)

I'm knitting a drapey cardigan for myself. It's the first *big* piece of knitting I've done and it's taking FOREVER. You knit the body all in one piece, sideways, putting the armholes in as you go. Then you do the sleeves separately.
I'm nearly halfway across the back and morale is flagging. I think I need to sit down and put some hours in, just to get to a point where I can have the excitement of doing the 2nd sleeve cast-off/cast-on-again.
Using Manos Del Uruguay in 'Zambezi' - first wool I ever bought and this is my 3rd attempt to do it justice :oops: :facepalm:
 
long, long time since i've poted anyhting on this, but i've just applied for a job with a wool production company where being a knitter/spinner was considered one of the desirable atributes. :D
 
i hear you on interminable garments t_t. i once knit a cardi in 4-ply, never again :mad:

in scarf news i've finished one full repeat, and it weighs in at 30g. i only have 100g of yarn so it's gonna be just a teeny bit shorter than i was hoping :hmm: in which case i think it's worth going for seamless if i can. as long as i can get my head through it i'll be happy tbh :D
 
Knitting charts. I've always read them right to left. That's right, isn't it? :confused:

Am being momentarily baffled by my bedsock pattern, which has both a chart and written instructions for the lace section, and the written ones have the ssk and k2tog the opposite way round from the chart.
 
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