02.24.08
Posted in Guestbook at 2:09 am by mmb
Just found your blog b/c I’m trying to trace apattern.
Have you seen this pattern at masondixonknitting archives “mysterylace”? It is in the Jan 13, 2008 blog posting. It is a picture of a friend’s curtain. Beautiful. I hope to knit this and am trying to figure it out…
I know what happens, just not how to accomplish it:
-pattern is garter, they say,
-repeat is only four stitches long,
-repeat is nine rows deep,
-every other column is plain knit stitch,
-the other columns are the same pattern, but offset by 4 rows. This pattern consists of a plain stitch for 5 rows. On the 6th row, the 5 previous rows are knit into/under/deep-stitched/ pulled up so that a flower is formed. On the next row, the stitch directly above the loop holding up the flower is twisted. The row above that one is plain knit stitch, and then the pattern starts again.
_so, the chart would be :
columns 1 and 3: knit all stitches
columns 2 and 4: knit a pattern of 5 plain rows, pull up all the stitches into one stitch, twist the stitch in the next row above it, knit a plain stitch in the row above that, and then begin the repeat again.
How could I do this w/o having all the stitches fall off my needles???
any ideas?
Enjoy!
Meredith
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02.04.08
Posted in Guestbook at 4:58 pm by sunny77
I have a raglan sweater pattern that I am knitting from the top down ( sweater pattern generator)
I have knitted the collar but it says at each side of marker, increase 1 st by knitting into the front and back of the st..
I have 4 markers - one for the sleeves, one for the back, one for the other sleeve and one for the front, so by increasing into the back and front of each st. that would make an increase of 8 sts..
Does it matter which marker you start to increase at?
Awaiting your reply,
June
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08.22.07
Posted in Guestbook at 7:14 pm by Alaskakatz
Hi, I bought a hand knitted scarf in New Zealand at a Saturday Market and it had a very unusal stitch. I ask the lady what it was and she said it was knit the purls and purl the knits…well that’s a seed stitch (didn’t know that at the time), so I thought simple enough…brought it home and it’s not that stitch. I have taken this scarf to all of the yarn stores in my city, one of which is a master knitter and we can’t figure this out. It has ribbing on one side but the other side is totally different. It kinda looks like a Brioche stitch where you knit in the row below, but then it doesn’t come out ribbed on the other side. I am really stumped on this one. If you have a way I can email you pictures of the scarf and the stitches, I would love to do that and would appreciate any help I can find!!
Oh I just realized I can post pictures on here I think…when I get home today I will try that….
Thanks so much, Alaskakatz
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07.12.07
Posted in Guestbook at 9:36 pm by webmaster
This evening I added a new menu item that allows you to sort the stitch patterns in the stitch catalog by the number of stitches in a pattern repeat. I’m not sure how useful this will be to the average knitter.
I use this view of the stitch patterns when I am selecting patterns to work into swatches for the illustrations on the web site. I usually work three different patterns in sequence on one swatch. When I select the patterns to work in the swatch, it is just naturally easier if they all have the same number of stitches in a pattern repeat. I work three patterns consecutively because (1) it reduces the overhead spent on casting on and casting off and (2) three patterns is about what I can expect to get done in a evening.
Another limiting factor in selecting the number of patterns to work on a single swatch is the limits of my scanner bed. Rarely can I fit more than three patterns on the scanner at one time. And the scanner is my cheap, easy way of taking a picture of the swatch. I pin the swatch with dissecting pins on a piece of felt (supported by a block of styrofoam). A few moments on the scanner, a few moments in Photoshop to trim the edges of the image to the desired size, upload the file via FTP and another stitch pattern (or perhaps 2 or 3) have been illustrated on the web site.
I also take into account the category of stitches that I select to work in a swatch. I have found, for instance, that lace patterns do not work up well in the same swatch with twist stitch patterns. One category has a tendency to spread and another has a tendency to draw in. It is better if the patterns in the swatch all ‘behave’ the same.
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07.03.07
Posted in Guestbook at 7:38 pm by webmaster
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Posted in Guestbook at 6:49 pm by webmaster
A question came up about how fast someone can hand knit. I found documentation that the record is 255 stitches per 3 minutes.
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Posted in Guestbook at 6:28 pm by webmaster
I have closed the old Guestbook in favor of using the Knittingfool Blog for the similar purpose. This will offer the guests the opportunity to comment on posts left by other guests. That was not a feature I could easily offer before.
I will move most of the existing guestbook entires into the blog.
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07.01.07
Posted in Guestbook, Stitch Pattern Catalog at 9:08 am by webmaster
As of today, I shall have been working on knitting sample swatches for the stitch pattern catalog for about 7 months. I have completed swatches for 573 of the 1656 patterns that I have documented. That puts me at 34.6% of the patterns having swatch pictures to illustrate them. However, as my husband enjoys pointing out, I am my own worst enemy on this. I keep adding new patterns almost faster than I knit new swatches. I have been averaging between 2-3 swatches per day. Even if I added no more patterns, just to work through the ones I have now would take more than a year. I am sure that I have source material for about 2000-3000 more patterns. This could all go on for years. Someday, I will be in the nursing home with oatmeat drying on my chin wondering how many more patterns I have to do and what row am I on.
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