knitting update

[juldea]

Bad news: the gloves pwn me. I dropped a stitch and have to go back several rows. :(

Good news: tpau brought me a sock pattern to dance last night, so I can work on my mom's Christmas red sox for a while and calm down on the gloves.

Bad news: no clue when the gloves will be done.

Good news: I figured out a pattern to stitch in "RED SOX 2004" into the cuff of the socks.

Bad news: no clue how to work with two colors, and I'll be starting at the top, so I need to know soon.

Also, do I need to be stockinette stitching while doing the color pattern? Or can I do it in ribs?

I am going to try to HTML the pattern so I can show it off. Keep checking LJ for updates.

Comments

[baronbrian.livejournal.com]

Speaking of knitting, I haven't forgotten about the metal. I've just been swamped at home and haven't been able to take measurements.

[oakleaf-mirror.livejournal.com]

I don't think I'd put your pattern in the ribbing. Ribbing is there because it's supposed to scrunch up, so the pattern wouldn't look right at some point in the sock duty cycle. If you're familiar with the joke with the penultimate line "Oh, is your girlfriend's name Wendy, too?," then you'll understand the problem. :) Save the pattern for the stockinette section just below the top ribbing.

Two colour knitting isn't hard, though it is a bit of a pain. I could have showed you more closely, last night, if I knew you were planning to start some of it, so soon. Basically, you just carry along the secondary colour behind the work, and use that instead of your main colour, on the stitches you need to for the pattern. The main colour just trails along behind the work until you switch back to it. There are variations, such as what I was doing last night, where I only had to put in an occasional contrasting stitch, where I was carrying the secondary colour in my off-hand and knitting that in English, while I was working the main colour in Continental. If I'm going to be doing more than an occasional stitch (did you see the sheep?) in an alternate colour, I'll drop the main colour, and pick up the secondary colour in my left hand, and work the whole pattern in Continental. (Reverse all that, as appropriate, if you normally knit English.)

[juldea.livejournal.com]

For all intents and purposes, I knit continental (it's actually a weird Russian variation, but hey - no one can tell from the finished work!)

If I hadn't had brought a friend last night who was wholly uninterested in knitting, I would've made it a point to ask you to show me closer, so don't worry. It's my fault. :P

Do you have to do anything with the different strands before switching off between them? Twist them or anything? and how do you work in the first bit of the different color - do you knot it, or work it in for a few stitches somehow, or do you just pick it up and knit it into the existing loops?

Also, reading patterns - am I correct in assuming that if I were knitting the pattern flat, I would read it zig-zag? (since I'm working in a circle, it's all the same direction and stitch type anyway)

[tpau]

yes on the zig zag

you need to twist if you are carrying the yarn in back for more then 3 stitches.

do not knit, treat it liek a new yarn when your ball runs out

[juldea.livejournal.com]

do not knit, treat it like a new yarn when your ball runs out

That won't work for me, seeing as how the way I've done that so far is to knit with double-strands (one from each ball) for a few stitches and then drop the ending one. Doing this with two colors will result in double-colored stitches.

[tpau]

then jsut knot, but becareful to do it loosely and o nthe wrong side. then when you have mad ea few rows, unknot and leave hte end to weave in later

[juldea.livejournal.com]

gotcha

[oakleaf-mirror.livejournal.com]

I just left a bit of a tail, planning to weave it in when it all goes together. I'll let you know how that works out...

[eustacia42.livejournal.com]

I like how you corrected the "liek" typo when you replied to and quoted that comment... it's something i would have done. hehe :)

[nemoalia.livejournal.com]

Isn't there a way of picking up a dropped stitch that involves a crochet hook? Start your next row, knit to the column (not exactly a knitting term, but oppose it to row and you know what I mean) and undo the stitches down to the dropped one with the crochet hook. Then fix them back up again.

[juldea.livejournal.com]

*grin*

I put up with typos when I can't correct them, but when I can... zap! :)

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Yeah there is, except that somehow I compensated for the dropped stitch before I found it and totally messed things up. I gave the gloves to my knitting 'teacher' tpau (hehe) and she couldn't fix it either, and was the one who told me I had to frog it. :(

[eustacia42.livejournal.com]

woohoo! i am forever seeing typos wherever i go... even billboards and stuff. screaming huge typos that even well-paid editors couldn't see. what am i doing here unemployed? LOL

[ex-krink990.livejournal.com]

does boston have a knitter's lj? philly has a huge one that has get togethers all the time. check it out, and you should start one for boston if there isn't already.

www.livejournal.com/community/phillyknitters

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Not one that I've been able to find, or was mentioned to me when I introduced myself on novice_knitters.

Hrm, perhaps I should make one! :)