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RubyToogood said:
I was about to say no, but actually I think it might do. I started the lace row on the side where if you were still ribbing you'd do sl1 p1, and it looks like the picture. Maybe if you started on the sl1 k1 side, it would be different.
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Cheers, I'll use the sl1 p1 side as my RS then, will help further down in the pattern.
RubyToogood said:
The latter I think: sl1, k2tog. I think she tacked on the bit about slipping the first stitch after she actually wrote the pattern or something.
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ah ok, I'll double check again.
I could just come round and knit it for you if you like? Might be easier :p ;)
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ok :D :p

Cheers for your help hon... think I can start now :)
 
Blimey, that looks like a tedious process... hope it looks better for it.

I've done 1inch of the first lot of ribbing so far :oops: :)
 
Well I can't say I was all that impressed with it as a castoff method. It took forever and the result was a bit untidy, but I think the point is it stretches massively, which you need that edge to do.

Having cast off, sewed it together and tried it on, I don't hate it as much as I thought I might, but it is a fraction small and I do think the sleeves need to be a bit longer to cover up the old bingo wings, so I'm trying adding a bit of ribbing round the armholes.
 
By the way I did tell you it was quite boring to knit, didn't I?

I really want to get the fucking thing over with so I can get on with knitting up my sale bargain kidsilk jumper (assuming I can decide on a pattern).
 
I'm now procrastinating by putting details of all my stash onto Ravelry :rolleyes:

BTW I had a weird internet moment in John Lewis yesterday. I was tormenting the nice Rowan consultant with the issue of what Kidsilk Haze pattern to go for and suddenly realised I knew who she was on Ravelry.
 
That's a shame! Is there no hope for it? Not even a second lease of life as a cushion cover or something? (That's what happens to most of my disasters :D )
 
I dunno, it's quite stretchy so it might well fit someone else, possibly someone a shade smaller than me. It's just not very flattering on me.
 
Oh well, at least it's finished and I can get on with the next thing.

I've bought this book: http://www.englishyarns.co.uk/rowan_purelife_organic_wool_collection.html
Full of things I can imagine knitting and wearing, and all DK so v useful.

If I can get the tension and sizing right, I want to have a stab at this pattern with my kidsilk night - it's almost exactly what I've been looking for, just a shame it's the wrong wool:
Chicory-1_L.jpg
 
RubyToogood said:
It says "CF1" and CB1". It means transfer one stitch onto a cable needle and hold it to the front of the work (CF1) or back (CB1). Then you do the bit in brackets. Once you've done a few it makes sense.
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One last question :oops:

I've got to the cabling bit and want to make sure I've got it right. She's saying that you k1 p1 or p1 k1 depending on if it's CF1 or CB1... but doesn't it make more sense to k2 p2, as that's what the rib pattern is at the end?

Or does it make no difference?

Her instructions:

p1 (c1f [p into the stitch that was moved behind, k into the stitch that was moved in front], c1b [k into the stitch that was moved in front, p into the stitch that was moved behind] ) repeat cabling until 1 stitch left, p1
The next row will count as row 2 (wrong side)
row 2: k2 p2 to last 2 stitches, k2
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I'll have a proper look at it later, but I seem to recall thinking the same thing, but it all made sense when I did it (as written).
 
To be honest, I think that's as much help as I can be short of knitting the whole thing again, because I can't visualise it. You'll just have to do what I did, try it and see! :p
 
I've just reread the pattern and it makes sense now... she does p k then k p (so it is just P2, K2 with cabling) :D
 
BiddlyBee said:
I've just reread the pattern and it makes sense now... she does p k then k p (so it is just P2, K2 with cabling) :D
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That sounds right to me.

RubyToogood said:
Oh well, at least it's finished and I can get on with the next thing.

I've bought this book: http://www.englishyarns.co.uk/rowan_purelife_organic_wool_collection.html
Full of things I can imagine knitting and wearing, and all DK so v useful.

If I can get the tension and sizing right, I want to have a stab at this pattern with my kidsilk night - it's almost exactly what I've been looking for, just a shame it's the wrong wool:
Chicory-1_L.jpg
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I've sort of started on this but having a crisis of confidence because my row gauge is far too tight. I love this wool to bits - it was a dream come true finding it in the sale - and I don't want to spend months working on something if it's not going to work and then I have to unravel it and the wool's never the same again. Ho hum :( I can't decide whether to give up and knit something else I don't like as much, or persevere and try and make it work.

In other news, I went to a yarn swap of another knitting group recently and it was a very useful exercise. Offloaded some stuff I really didn't want for some stuff I really did want.
 
Wish I was good enough to give some decent advice... have you done too much that the wool would be ruined if you started again? Or is there and chance you could make it a bit shorter?
 
Well, I'm just venting really, if I wanted heavyweight advice I'd post about it on Ravelry. I'm just going to put it on hold while I reflect, maybe keep an eye out for another pattern. I could start again, the wool would be fine and I've only done a few inches. There are probably solutions, I could do a lot of maths and add rows, but I have a Bad Feeling about this project.

Never mind, plenty more stuff to knit in the meantime. I'm suffering from some kind of weird affliction at the moment whereby no pattern is entirely satisfactory to me though.
 
I reckon the Bad Feeling means it's best to look for something else hon.

I finished the bolero today! Yay! Not done any washing or blocking, but it fits, so I'm going to leave it as is :cool: Thank you for all you help with it Rubes :)
 
Yay! I'm glad you're pleased with it.

Meanwhile I'm hunting for a cardigan pattern. I have a load of grey Kid Classic waiting... I've looked through Ravelry and not one of the three million cardigan patterns listed on there Spoke To Me.
 
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