Knitting with Heather
Dec. 13th, 2008 04:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ikyrianStep One: Choose a pattern. (Usually I troll Knitty.com for free patterns and pick something fun and easy.)
Step Two: Attempt pattern. Screw up. Repeat ad nauseum until so frustrated you throw knitting across the room.
Step Three: Repeat steps One and Two until you give up on knitting for a few months and/or years.
Step Four: Find another pattern. I found Rusty Nail Shawl by Charlene Schurch.
Step Five: Grab an extra skein of yarn. (I grabbed a very nice (cheap) worsted weight white acrylic yarn, worked very well.)
Step Six: Read through pattern. Balk at casting on 419 stitches on a circular needle because you don't have a circular needle. Grab straight US 8/5 mm and cast on 35 stitches using the knit cast on. Decide that a scarf would be much better than a shawl.
Step Seven: Start pattern. Continue on happily, even after realizing that this was supposed to be knitted from the side and not from the top.
Step Eight: Screw up pattern 2/5ths of the way in. Panic.
Step Nine: Glare at knitting while trying to figure out what the hell to do about problem, because pulling it out is not an option because you're not successful at getting the knitting back on the needle.
Step Ten: Figure out an awesome way to make it work AND make the scarf symmetrical at the same time.
Step Eleven: Finish scarf, bind it off. Consider blocking and/or weaving in ends and figure that's way too advanced.
Step Twelve: Share pattern with the world.
My thanks and apologies to Charlene Schurch.
Read through Rusty Nail pattern. Do all the knitterly stuff like the gauge and what not that's suggested. Make sure you understand how to knit a Long Twisted Stitch as described.
Knit cast on 35 stitches OR as many following pattern (pattern worked over a multiple of 2 sts + 5 sts). There are three sections - first section is the first 2/5ths of scarf, second section is 1/5th of scarf, third section is last 2/5ths of scarf.
Section 1
Rows 1-6: K all stitches.
Row 7: K3, [yo, k2tog] to last 2 sts, K2.
Rows 8-14: K all stitches.
Rows 15 & 16: K3, Long Twisted Knit stitches to last 3 sts, K3.
Knit as many panels as desired ending on row 14.
Section 2
Row 1: K3, Long Twisted Knit stitches to last 3 sts, K3.
Rows 2-7: K all stitches.
Rows 8 & 9: K3, Long Twisted Knit stitches to last 3 sts, K3.
Rows 10-12: K all stitches.
Row 13: K3, [yo, k2tog] to last 2 sts, K2.
Rows 14-16: K all stitches.
Rows 17 & 18: K3, [yo, k2tog] to last 2 sts, K2.
Rows 19-24: K all stitches.
Row 25: K3, Long Twisted Knit stitches to last 3 sts, K3.
Section 3
Rows 1-7: K all stitches.
Rows 8: K3, [yo, k2tog] to last two sts, K2.
Rows 9-14: K all stitches.
Rows 15 & 16: K3, Long Twistd Knit stitches to last 3 sts, K3.
Knit as many panels as section 1, ending on row 14.
Step Two: Attempt pattern. Screw up. Repeat ad nauseum until so frustrated you throw knitting across the room.
Step Three: Repeat steps One and Two until you give up on knitting for a few months and/or years.
Step Four: Find another pattern. I found Rusty Nail Shawl by Charlene Schurch.
Step Five: Grab an extra skein of yarn. (I grabbed a very nice (cheap) worsted weight white acrylic yarn, worked very well.)
Step Six: Read through pattern. Balk at casting on 419 stitches on a circular needle because you don't have a circular needle. Grab straight US 8/5 mm and cast on 35 stitches using the knit cast on. Decide that a scarf would be much better than a shawl.
Step Seven: Start pattern. Continue on happily, even after realizing that this was supposed to be knitted from the side and not from the top.
Step Eight: Screw up pattern 2/5ths of the way in. Panic.
Step Nine: Glare at knitting while trying to figure out what the hell to do about problem, because pulling it out is not an option because you're not successful at getting the knitting back on the needle.
Step Ten: Figure out an awesome way to make it work AND make the scarf symmetrical at the same time.
Step Eleven: Finish scarf, bind it off. Consider blocking and/or weaving in ends and figure that's way too advanced.
Step Twelve: Share pattern with the world.
My thanks and apologies to Charlene Schurch.
Read through Rusty Nail pattern. Do all the knitterly stuff like the gauge and what not that's suggested. Make sure you understand how to knit a Long Twisted Stitch as described.
Knit cast on 35 stitches OR as many following pattern (pattern worked over a multiple of 2 sts + 5 sts). There are three sections - first section is the first 2/5ths of scarf, second section is 1/5th of scarf, third section is last 2/5ths of scarf.
Section 1
Rows 1-6: K all stitches.
Row 7: K3, [yo, k2tog] to last 2 sts, K2.
Rows 8-14: K all stitches.
Rows 15 & 16: K3, Long Twisted Knit stitches to last 3 sts, K3.
Knit as many panels as desired ending on row 14.
Section 2
Row 1: K3, Long Twisted Knit stitches to last 3 sts, K3.
Rows 2-7: K all stitches.
Rows 8 & 9: K3, Long Twisted Knit stitches to last 3 sts, K3.
Rows 10-12: K all stitches.
Row 13: K3, [yo, k2tog] to last 2 sts, K2.
Rows 14-16: K all stitches.
Rows 17 & 18: K3, [yo, k2tog] to last 2 sts, K2.
Rows 19-24: K all stitches.
Row 25: K3, Long Twisted Knit stitches to last 3 sts, K3.
Section 3
Rows 1-7: K all stitches.
Rows 8: K3, [yo, k2tog] to last two sts, K2.
Rows 9-14: K all stitches.
Rows 15 & 16: K3, Long Twistd Knit stitches to last 3 sts, K3.
Knit as many panels as section 1, ending on row 14.
