When I’m drawing a blank on what to make next, I fall back on my old standard question - what kind of garment would I like to pull out of my closet right now? How can I put a different spin on yet another cardigan on the mid gauge? Spring is coming, I’m sure, and I love lace and doing it on the mid gauge means hand transfers. Therefore, I don’t want anything too complicated. I looked through some old hand knit magazines for some inspiration for a lace pattern - I wanted to avoid vertical and horizontal lines and have a pattern that wouldn’t take forever to do.
I found a fairly simple one that in hand knit was a 12 st X 18 row pattern - in hand knits they do yarn overs and K2tog, which make the eyelets, on every row. In machine knitting, transfer the stitch to the next needle and leave the empty needle in work does the same thing. As a machine knitter, being basically lazy, I generally try to set up patterns that require transfers on every row - I find it’s easier to follow, less chance of error and it gets the job done quicker when you can knit 2 rows between the work.
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kind of boring - after I got the piece off the machine to really look at it,
I’m thinking, what can I do to spice this up??
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Now, shall I do make it a hoodie or not?
5 comments:
Love the green one. Not a hoodie but what about a v-neck cardigan instead with perhaps a 3/4 length sleeve??? Just a thought for spring wear.
Marg
I like both. V Neck and 3/4 sleeves sounds good but whatever you decide will be great Mary Anne. Jan
Love the green one---you can really see the "improvement" when you look up close. I vote for a v-neck pullover, tunic.
Like the green one the best! Could you please do a chart diagram?Would love to make a stole,but am a little dense about following wwritten directions sometimes!
ps - enjoying your POM!! Sandra
So enjoying your blog and the taster of whats to come for the POM. The patterns are great.
Helen Fox
UK
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