tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34672926791851139902024-03-15T10:05:44.776-04:00Needles to say...designed to inspire, excite, educate and entertainMary Anne Ogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05708932333083656667noreply@blogger.comBlogger638125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3467292679185113990.post-73116986206260578652024-03-14T10:05:00.001-04:002024-03-14T10:05:41.475-04:00undeterred...<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXwUtVXjQR4qZL3jW6oAstQtyzULbYJaGc-VE13TKi-0hEHVc2UGQnr4Yo-y4vU76z8gAVLP7gfwDqYZZjyBkDAJhyvEZJG1-yiVuJCjMvM6_CJvxysJKmIHNhScZywNqr5atPgF7-Sapx19ZDvDjZe80zxYkANYDnhC0CuY2onnJMALB_nCEw_2GD2Io/s4272/bookspebble.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2784" data-original-width="4272" height="131" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXwUtVXjQR4qZL3jW6oAstQtyzULbYJaGc-VE13TKi-0hEHVc2UGQnr4Yo-y4vU76z8gAVLP7gfwDqYZZjyBkDAJhyvEZJG1-yiVuJCjMvM6_CJvxysJKmIHNhScZywNqr5atPgF7-Sapx19ZDvDjZe80zxYkANYDnhC0CuY2onnJMALB_nCEw_2GD2Io/w200-h131/bookspebble.JPG" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px;">undefeated…determined…intrepid…steadfast…relentless… </span><span style="font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px;">All words that I think apply to me! No quitting here! </span><p></p><p style="font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Poppins;">I made a sleeve just to prove to myself that I could concentrate long enough to get that trim to work properly. Got the cuff done perfectly and made the sleeve while contemplating my options.</span></p>
<p style="font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Poppins;">I recalled using that trim in a design way back in </span><span style="font-family: Poppins;">Knitwords #6, <i>Laced With Diamonds</i> and then remembered using a stripped-down version in KW#12, <i>Sampler Lace</i>. </span></p><p style="font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Poppins;">I had every book out! Decided to use the abridged version for the body hems at least. </span></p>
<p style="font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.7px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI7NOtJZ8bi3OZ4mMZYuc66bsliRN2PHYP9z_f0CZbHnonqfjvHWsTATmpx4uT9kzmeA29ueYUdqCzxgRnx4shFcZTpBR9dDr8YLv8-Ag4-dRamsgFJVJ2HbpN6DG3-tP2TKHBlwoAWRx51RL4v__OVaqfHG45ZOLKo5zPINCmffnppCBw3LDFB31PvuQ/s2920/pebbleneckf.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2320" data-original-width="2920" height="159" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI7NOtJZ8bi3OZ4mMZYuc66bsliRN2PHYP9z_f0CZbHnonqfjvHWsTATmpx4uT9kzmeA29ueYUdqCzxgRnx4shFcZTpBR9dDr8YLv8-Ag4-dRamsgFJVJ2HbpN6DG3-tP2TKHBlwoAWRx51RL4v__OVaqfHG45ZOLKo5zPINCmffnppCBw3LDFB31PvuQ/w200-h159/pebbleneckf.JPG" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Poppins;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The rib for the body piece - need 80-0-80 ns for width. Change up the centre of the triangular rib - instead of using #1 right as the centre which worked nicely for the cuff (30-0-30 ns), pull #10 right and go from there so there will be a nicer match at the side seams. </span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipesKCpUzsDxvGa3Db7q4d6LtaSLN2V0dku_Txr2Qpv7Vj9Kms2jkfpeLDIF828hstLrnXWLcVEN-5OT3Yls7MMp6M3WLlgJst4j1XGKhhYL9rmHxf7UDtGTaQKJA1tv1pqgRclLmwahEveGDisPoWXmfDqTI_VnizPnESz2kscDqIdclrK6jYV8qb53U/s2920/pebble2f.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2824" data-original-width="2920" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipesKCpUzsDxvGa3Db7q4d6LtaSLN2V0dku_Txr2Qpv7Vj9Kms2jkfpeLDIF828hstLrnXWLcVEN-5OT3Yls7MMp6M3WLlgJst4j1XGKhhYL9rmHxf7UDtGTaQKJA1tv1pqgRclLmwahEveGDisPoWXmfDqTI_VnizPnESz2kscDqIdclrK6jYV8qb53U/w200-h193/pebble2f.JPG" width="200" /></a></div><br /></span><p></p><p style="font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Poppins;">Oh, I still got it! even if I don’t always remember where I put it! ;)</span></p>Mary Anne Ogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05708932333083656667noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3467292679185113990.post-8554178202148446682024-03-06T09:58:00.006-05:002024-03-06T11:28:15.584-05:00fancy, schmancy...<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Poppins;">Had my plan - using the 'pebble' Suva in that 1RT at T9 (for a thinner fabric) with fancy ribs ('Tuck & Triangle Rib' from <i>The Neck's Best Thing</i>) for the bands, using a plain</span><span style="font-family: Poppins;">,</span></span><span style="font-family: Poppins; font-size: large;"> smooth yarn in a contrast colour - 'paper bag tan' (my all-time favourite yarn-colour name!) cotton, because I figured all the fanciness of the tuck and transfers and outlines would show up so much nicer in the solid colour, with the added benefit that my main yarn would go farther and I wouldn't be concerned about running short.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicT8-90yj0ibHHYze8zl0jh6n4Ewqhe8D2BHOGkbuDERNnBOCjDav_Z5Oa0O2mKo8QvKq69MuMx2kkNW2QliHI3u3zrfoQIlo3vqecxNPuJktFIc5fLpNUaomhK-GZmW0xaHPEJP2ozoqfRdg_f83xHd-o3D82TtiJRBCIntc8SStRQ3uRT6uZE1pVqEo/s3424/t&tswatch%20(2).JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="3424" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicT8-90yj0ibHHYze8zl0jh6n4Ewqhe8D2BHOGkbuDERNnBOCjDav_Z5Oa0O2mKo8QvKq69MuMx2kkNW2QliHI3u3zrfoQIlo3vqecxNPuJktFIc5fLpNUaomhK-GZmW0xaHPEJP2ozoqfRdg_f83xHd-o3D82TtiJRBCIntc8SStRQ3uRT6uZE1pVqEo/w200-h183/t&tswatch%20(2).JPG" width="200" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: Poppins; font-size: large;">Sat down with such hopes and aspirations of success, armed with the NBT instructions, began my swatch. I did cast on with waste yarn - learned my lesson on that one! Did the manual wrap cast-on and the 4 rows of tuck. I admit, I did not fully read the entire instructions ahead of time, thinking I knew it all. Got to row 7 and thought who the heck thought this up? Oh </span><span style="font-family: Poppins; font-size: large;">yeah, it was me! duh!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Poppins; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA-EWiTRuZgu2spRcWt48pHPcpUcas0OWP854I9E5AnGSsfvMjc1g1GWzUUm-95F1kJ-9gl_GqZcIgtv_OLLwg8nN4TEiBW5CSW9fCDaYls-jVnTG9tX4dGiVbhBs-xaR9lZhTPhdTxO-LIM3-BHxqJeAKtVq5uSjBwXIU_ZuZ14CIZY_ebqgTWYSPTo8/s3424/pebble%20swatch.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3424" data-original-width="3424" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA-EWiTRuZgu2spRcWt48pHPcpUcas0OWP854I9E5AnGSsfvMjc1g1GWzUUm-95F1kJ-9gl_GqZcIgtv_OLLwg8nN4TEiBW5CSW9fCDaYls-jVnTG9tX4dGiVbhBs-xaR9lZhTPhdTxO-LIM3-BHxqJeAKtVq5uSjBwXIU_ZuZ14CIZY_ebqgTWYSPTo8/w200-h200/pebble%20swatch.JPG" width="200" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Poppins; font-size: large;">I was right, all that detail does show up well in the solid colour!<br /></span><div><span style="font-family: Poppins; font-size: large;">A little more concentration required!</span><p></p><div><br /></div></div>Mary Anne Ogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05708932333083656667noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3467292679185113990.post-62958606219596321372024-03-01T12:16:00.000-05:002024-03-01T12:16:04.352-05:00on repeat…<p><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Stoked with the success of the denim Tennessee Tunic - I wore it for three days straight! I’m going with those ideas to make another one. The cuddly yarn - have some Forsell Suva, a wool/cotton thick/thin, slubby blend that should do the trick. In the tweedy Suva, I have a full cone and partial, same dyelot in ‘surf’ a cream/pale blue/gray combo, total of 550g and a single cone, 500g, ‘pebble’, a tan/ivory combo. I seem to recall this yarn goes a long way, but ya never know! </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJUSvCMBW2riDJy2sbHrJCRFoU8InfT-1dpScl4Gn9cbDrtRBcskdHQnamC-uiUsV13G11aMp8gibYb2ADlnhtaiPjfe2hIRK7yFcodu1RJyIKJi_WYykVAnbcthmOUN5NvQZBaTip3g2OiDA9XPVWwXrQTV8NYlAxSRUAGzKru-wPAuhjB8CpqNZ1SAI/s2880/pebbleswatch1%20(2).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1992" data-original-width="2880" height="138" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJUSvCMBW2riDJy2sbHrJCRFoU8InfT-1dpScl4Gn9cbDrtRBcskdHQnamC-uiUsV13G11aMp8gibYb2ADlnhtaiPjfe2hIRK7yFcodu1RJyIKJi_WYykVAnbcthmOUN5NvQZBaTip3g2OiDA9XPVWwXrQTV8NYlAxSRUAGzKru-wPAuhjB8CpqNZ1SAI/w200-h138/pebbleswatch1%20(2).JPG" width="200" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Really like the shape of that tunic so my next attempt is the same but different. A bit shorter and not quite as wide at the hemline, with contrast bands maybe, you know that ‘running-out-of-yarn anxiety’!</span></span></p>
<p style="font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I want to knit the 1RT (one-row-tuck) loosely again to create a thinner fabric and I go back to one of my favourite Knitwords patterns, ‘Caped Wrapper’ from #43 <a href="https://knitwords.blogspot.com/2013/01/hybrid-knitting.html"><span style="color: #007aff;">https://knitwords.blogspot.com/2013/01/hybrid-knitting.html</span></a> - that’s my second favourite 1RT stitch pattern!</span></p>
<p style="font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Looking through ‘<i>The Neck’s Best Thing</i>’, there are some fancy ribbed combos that should work - oh, my ! This could keep me with knitting ideas for a quite bit!</span></p><div><br /></div>Mary Anne Ogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05708932333083656667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3467292679185113990.post-27210799942926755152024-02-25T14:21:00.003-05:002024-02-25T14:25:40.400-05:00ta-da…<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfXbiDAydrPWWHvm7tgkLBR2UC7foyAdwlWFx0Mwkls0zAXMZpIMwABmITK2jcUjaxjymw02kIVaryiTw9fHafMeRN1ZeZDxK5t4jekB8BKAcHazYtrFG5cyLELEU9YTT_Y3_dYKaCiDKFF6Ni3JiJs7kH8RKhut0xr8v9pfmEX0OzC7R-PAQZHbqB5JE/s3184/denimTnTf.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2896" data-original-width="3184" height="182" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfXbiDAydrPWWHvm7tgkLBR2UC7foyAdwlWFx0Mwkls0zAXMZpIMwABmITK2jcUjaxjymw02kIVaryiTw9fHafMeRN1ZeZDxK5t4jekB8BKAcHazYtrFG5cyLELEU9YTT_Y3_dYKaCiDKFF6Ni3JiJs7kH8RKhut0xr8v9pfmEX0OzC7R-PAQZHbqB5JE/w200-h182/denimTnTf.JPG" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Omigosh! this thing is adorable! It’s comfy, cuddly, cozy, cute!</span><p></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">No, Tom, the neckline backstitching can’t be done on the machine, sorry! This method gives a nice, close-fitting finish that is snug but still everything is stretchy enough to go over your head without damaging your ears! So worth the extra effort! And the detail is priceless!</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2uQ40QpRo8u53cj3KQ7OlrIwaQZFws2EcGgqhkFS7fWNOE1r5qkxi6MaAaW9g-u1UZ9CfQttUOhCthhpc2sjWOAPFZkHS-9D7U0SfK1W4hBMsve1q1yjMWtHog1aEbfOmLrugGt_g779AZ09H5Jsf6o69LZlft8thvnSN-gdWCKewXXReFoVeLQLR8AQ/s4064/denimTnTneck.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2896" data-original-width="4064" height="143" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2uQ40QpRo8u53cj3KQ7OlrIwaQZFws2EcGgqhkFS7fWNOE1r5qkxi6MaAaW9g-u1UZ9CfQttUOhCthhpc2sjWOAPFZkHS-9D7U0SfK1W4hBMsve1q1yjMWtHog1aEbfOmLrugGt_g779AZ09H5Jsf6o69LZlft8thvnSN-gdWCKewXXReFoVeLQLR8AQ/w200-h143/denimTnTneck.JPG" width="200" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I love the texture added in by the 1RT. The colour play, even though there is really only 3 to 4 shades of the denim colours, is quite interesting - note the little zigzagging across the top just under the neckline, almost like a yoke effect. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The hem treatment is beautiful and maybe there’s more work than the multicoloured yarn shows, but I know it’s there!</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">And it came out to the exact size I planned!</span></p>Mary Anne Ogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05708932333083656667noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3467292679185113990.post-16311884771376978932024-02-22T11:05:00.002-05:002024-02-22T11:07:45.365-05:00pushing boundaries…<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The ribbed cuff is so nice! Glad I went with the 2X2 (2X1) arrangement - it really fills out nicely and adds that extra bit of firmness for this relatively thin yarn. Kind of excited to translate this to the neckline! </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I pulled booklets and swatches and settled on a ribbed band with that little stockinette border that’s hand stitched...yeah, it’s in ‘<span style="font-style: italic;">The Neck’s Best Thing</span>’, #24, called <span style="font-style: italic;">1x1 rib with casing</span>…but I’m sticking with the 2X2. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 20px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0LucwVSQxxdpRJpRx4YxNGqz0mfoOTGCXX38cWIewhdamvSJTpfdc9Ip4CdixTULYSkNR6avJVSEWCL-4CuEMrHRp4HxSTyBWWe9-JgcuGt1Unu-qOXNX3cAl9X0Hr5E-J4EMm2wApoTWncVJNOfO-4jNH-UV_F_o8Hq7nWL-S1gf_iecDFBmvL3bndI/s3143/6C924941-FF71-40DA-8DA9-6BCE992310C9.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3143" data-original-width="2122" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0LucwVSQxxdpRJpRx4YxNGqz0mfoOTGCXX38cWIewhdamvSJTpfdc9Ip4CdixTULYSkNR6avJVSEWCL-4CuEMrHRp4HxSTyBWWe9-JgcuGt1Unu-qOXNX3cAl9X0Hr5E-J4EMm2wApoTWncVJNOfO-4jNH-UV_F_o8Hq7nWL-S1gf_iecDFBmvL3bndI/w135-h200/6C924941-FF71-40DA-8DA9-6BCE992310C9.jpeg" width="135" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>Notice, in the photo, the top green waste yarn was for the cast-on edge of the rib, then you see the rib in the denimy yarn. Transfer all sts up to main bed. Hang neckline sts. Knit 3 rows on the main yarn and then a bunch of rows waste yarn, which you see curving below the rib. Now the tricky part - hand stitching that little 3-row trim onto the garment with a backstitch…</span><p></p><br /><p></p><div><br /></div>Mary Anne Ogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05708932333083656667noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3467292679185113990.post-90667051383140162462024-02-20T13:37:00.004-05:002024-02-20T13:47:39.880-05:00flashback…<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg253ZUGAgh_Z3EMj3ac9UN2xodcybk7vXQoTSlV6J46eOCgdtzUYsRxd78MegcjQPxDHav9axpHR4_EkuQKNZXRYAA-bUe-U65nQ16Hg9C_rirhcVZEioXW5-TGqmgOWMd2k-wW6B9gyi8PyFpii_HzOtYUte8ckBuzC9_VoeeMLYJYe04XVwz1dwhwAQ/s3296/denimTNschem.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3296" data-original-width="2544" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg253ZUGAgh_Z3EMj3ac9UN2xodcybk7vXQoTSlV6J46eOCgdtzUYsRxd78MegcjQPxDHav9axpHR4_EkuQKNZXRYAA-bUe-U65nQ16Hg9C_rirhcVZEioXW5-TGqmgOWMd2k-wW6B9gyi8PyFpii_HzOtYUte8ckBuzC9_VoeeMLYJYe04XVwz1dwhwAQ/w154-h200/denimTNschem.jpg" width="154" /></a></div>I’ve really enjoyed this knit! When I got over the trauma of having to remake that chain cast-on and admitting it, I got energized! Quickly made both body pieces and thought, I haven’t made a ribbed neckband since forever! Except for that last NP sweater and that doesn’t really count - it was hand-latched, not really ribbed!<br /></span><p></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">For the sleeves, although I wanted long, it seems I always end up either rolling them up or just pushing up, you know, when you’re in the kitchen…so I opted for a ribbed cuff - this way I could test out the rib without really making another swatch! </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Just to recap, this yarn is relatively fine, even though I’m using T9 for the one-row-tuck, in plain stockinette it would be more like T5 stockinette, so 1X1 rib would be kind of flimsy, not much body to it. I’m going with 2x2 rib in the 2X1 needle arrangement with the manual wrap cast-on - it has more stretch and firmness (more stitches actualy) than 1X1. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGka5ofuiJES_b0k70GueE9gIeKVmldPbJfK_4IHK5Hs1AIQ9RwCmz0x3YLVHszjxPtHhQKQT3vh2cjVKkW84EV_oBcaNF3NA90zv0q0Dud5CRu0qbNWnTKlidrTiKKEwH35DYzaz9gQQHjRMSRB1PoMYwvR9VLYyenwP1xOJRsTQDg6b_YDc7az3xha4/s2943/7A85BABE-7360-44FA-A269-E53C40D97CE5.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1866" data-original-width="2943" height="127" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGka5ofuiJES_b0k70GueE9gIeKVmldPbJfK_4IHK5Hs1AIQ9RwCmz0x3YLVHszjxPtHhQKQT3vh2cjVKkW84EV_oBcaNF3NA90zv0q0Dud5CRu0qbNWnTKlidrTiKKEwH35DYzaz9gQQHjRMSRB1PoMYwvR9VLYyenwP1xOJRsTQDg6b_YDc7az3xha4/w200-h127/7A85BABE-7360-44FA-A269-E53C40D97CE5.jpeg" width="200" /></a></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">After that ‘wake up call’ with the yarn breaking on the first row, I wouldn’t dream of doing anything other than casting on with waste yarn for the rib. <a href="https://knitwords.blogspot.com/2010/08/dream-coat-notes-day-1.html">https://knitwords.blogspot.com/2010/08/dream-coat-notes-day-1.html</a></span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21.5px;"><br /></p>Mary Anne Ogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05708932333083656667noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3467292679185113990.post-63677997640519461992024-02-15T09:40:00.002-05:002024-02-15T09:47:29.749-05:00good thing…<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdcmT-OUsmJKn8LC9_vytc77j_CMoKO69GnHBLxJWX2L_q2ZDdJxUYqLVTsLF1yVRCjG602_6zenh2Ea8COeawbpcGJ-Bf8Jb8lQcUt9P8oLybDpEU8EoLO1QySQNrcE3-DC8tcpJ2m2lsGSJ49CRy0gBbwjUhasSt7uANJ0AObnCznXqMA3LOfYXbht4/s2873/3C1CDCE6-B25D-48E3-9C65-B55C4FB24BE7.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2873" data-original-width="2191" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdcmT-OUsmJKn8LC9_vytc77j_CMoKO69GnHBLxJWX2L_q2ZDdJxUYqLVTsLF1yVRCjG602_6zenh2Ea8COeawbpcGJ-Bf8Jb8lQcUt9P8oLybDpEU8EoLO1QySQNrcE3-DC8tcpJ2m2lsGSJ49CRy0gBbwjUhasSt7uANJ0AObnCznXqMA3LOfYXbht4/w153-h200/3C1CDCE6-B25D-48E3-9C65-B55C4FB24BE7.jpeg" width="153" /></a><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">I trust my swatch. This thing is huge! But it will shrink a lot! At least according to my swatch! </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Refreshed my memory by reading up on that curved hemline. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><a href="https://knitwords.blogspot.com/2020/08/a-little-reminder.html">https://knitwords.blogspot.com/2020/08/a-little-reminder.html</a></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">My sponge bar is okay, but after that faux pas on the cast-on, I feel like I need all the help I can get!</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">While knitting the Back and Front, I was considering the possibilities for the neck…more research required!</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><div><br /></div>Mary Anne Ogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05708932333083656667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3467292679185113990.post-46145611513082266042024-02-03T11:16:00.003-05:002024-02-03T11:20:22.811-05:00good memory…<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">but it’s short!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOkXbCl6KCEp01HerxGsF8pvP3wxpgHL1XtMBEBPLHK-vt_4JUPtdNkd06Oy7qe-hUGd8TL54owa1TD3Zq0ezP5cpFOQTYdbSQ7eKWM4wl6NKJ006_PegT_t3AaE9eoZGX5j9XaKQtFsRBo63d1mzkLtrCvXTXRI-5u1ZTBT5S8NiqQGZymsRvWFV-kHc/s2644/0A98D521-9E56-4B78-8F1A-D7DBE3A0A8FF.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2182" data-original-width="2644" height="165" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOkXbCl6KCEp01HerxGsF8pvP3wxpgHL1XtMBEBPLHK-vt_4JUPtdNkd06Oy7qe-hUGd8TL54owa1TD3Zq0ezP5cpFOQTYdbSQ7eKWM4wl6NKJ006_PegT_t3AaE9eoZGX5j9XaKQtFsRBo63d1mzkLtrCvXTXRI-5u1ZTBT5S8NiqQGZymsRvWFV-kHc/w200-h165/0A98D521-9E56-4B78-8F1A-D7DBE3A0A8FF.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Love the look of the swatch - going with the T9 option. Examining the chain and picot knots in the hem, I decided it needed a bit of beefing up so used three strands for the chain, without really thinking it through but you know how I am when I get going! Threaded up and knit the first row…halfway across, I knew I was in trouble! Rats, crap and goop!! The yarn broke several times - couldn’t handle going over the picot knots! Gosh, darn! Why didn’t I know that? </p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Ha! My younger self did!</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://knitwords.blogspot.com/2020/08/dissect-that.html">https://knitwords.blogspot.com/2020/08/dissect-that.html</a></span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">If I could only remember to read my own stories!</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi743IiN_0WOtqAJTraRv3uTpDQI7HSYIZ7WJZfkTuvSq5xpmZxYYMxERdZ5axeK39A7Pw57uVaLxRyMF81bLrCuFexHvLFPR21_CIV7dRonoXtcQzZ4Uyhg7f8-Yark_R4lFIw8eCXh95QJ22ASkoRyp55FQ3xM6P0p3xNAvm8DZdJhgTHAu17p_oLmMg/s3264/E409E058-3CD3-4F30-B582-35A3E223CF22.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi743IiN_0WOtqAJTraRv3uTpDQI7HSYIZ7WJZfkTuvSq5xpmZxYYMxERdZ5axeK39A7Pw57uVaLxRyMF81bLrCuFexHvLFPR21_CIV7dRonoXtcQzZ4Uyhg7f8-Yark_R4lFIw8eCXh95QJ22ASkoRyp55FQ3xM6P0p3xNAvm8DZdJhgTHAu17p_oLmMg/w200-h150/E409E058-3CD3-4F30-B582-35A3E223CF22.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">Handknit the first row after the picot knots…</span><p></p><br /><p></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXVGz3bTCSu75zaOYgSstFtXrzR1Ei4ACJOTSPutBRXijAqVNr1KWQ7C5aQn0FOIsHQpPVNIk7kGqt1Yd_RmSZT1eWRnnBREkRUTH6Dn7tgckwYxgnU7oRHLVqVmh1TY49OVFGFbqbOeY7phHxWHni5d1pbe8im_gMT3BzCuQ-IlSfOOBSFEXKzWMF39g/s2486/hodpodgechart.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1850" data-original-width="2486" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXVGz3bTCSu75zaOYgSstFtXrzR1Ei4ACJOTSPutBRXijAqVNr1KWQ7C5aQn0FOIsHQpPVNIk7kGqt1Yd_RmSZT1eWRnnBREkRUTH6Dn7tgckwYxgnU7oRHLVqVmh1TY49OVFGFbqbOeY7phHxWHni5d1pbe8im_gMT3BzCuQ-IlSfOOBSFEXKzWMF39g/s320/hodpodgechart.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">The shaded tones here make it a little hard to see and I found it helped to put a yarn mark on row 4, on the centre needles for the bottom of the tuck rib to prevent unladdering too far. The tuck rib doesn’t show up that much but it does help to widen out the hem so it’s worth doing…</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-0zAp9knxKQrKcyVcCAQTtGRcXKyFNXPWiPZje7t3pfEXYRjsM7ie3mVpz_m0uTdG2AuiWWPb8zYXqy7QQNUxdQwTbKtIKulN55Mtj20Uo5X-WYtZx4QlEkFfCtNpussGSJkRGQAdwNLh9-GxBIcNC-kxj9T4GK3nIVUa_rmLNQfxHmUhAV28VH0tIMI/s3264/3563BACF-C10F-488D-81C5-7C44D2A81960.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-0zAp9knxKQrKcyVcCAQTtGRcXKyFNXPWiPZje7t3pfEXYRjsM7ie3mVpz_m0uTdG2AuiWWPb8zYXqy7QQNUxdQwTbKtIKulN55Mtj20Uo5X-WYtZx4QlEkFfCtNpussGSJkRGQAdwNLh9-GxBIcNC-kxj9T4GK3nIVUa_rmLNQfxHmUhAV28VH0tIMI/w200-h150/3563BACF-C10F-488D-81C5-7C44D2A81960.jpeg" width="200" /></span></a></div><p></p><br /><p></p><br /><div><br /></div>Mary Anne Ogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05708932333083656667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3467292679185113990.post-1453288108742002102024-01-29T12:24:00.002-05:002024-01-29T12:29:54.526-05:00the situation…<p><span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYfVmQKawGfttq1dmJH1h2fTaCdDNrRdtckdLoo4Hvit2i7MGaGpU1rMBP6By1U27ey1rpyEOPAnLjoMGz0e5yKtZGpf-GPtW8FKqFsy0-DFkF8C7gzJ16ZNiQD4HpK33BjM8tM0VceQHqLiE1l8CORAIrc5vd0WFtf_DAMw_As_fv9BBTNxXdG1lTHtY/s2530/36CB285D-3FB9-4134-B497-D35996134DEC.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; font-size: large; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1836" data-original-width="2530" height="145" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYfVmQKawGfttq1dmJH1h2fTaCdDNrRdtckdLoo4Hvit2i7MGaGpU1rMBP6By1U27ey1rpyEOPAnLjoMGz0e5yKtZGpf-GPtW8FKqFsy0-DFkF8C7gzJ16ZNiQD4HpK33BjM8tM0VceQHqLiE1l8CORAIrc5vd0WFtf_DAMw_As_fv9BBTNxXdG1lTHtY/w200-h145/36CB285D-3FB9-4134-B497-D35996134DEC.jpeg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">Checking my first swatch, if you remember, it was 21-0-21 sts</span><span style="font-size: medium;">. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The reason for that was I could measure it with the green gauge to see what sort of stitch count would result from the stockinette. Hopefully you can see, even on the T9 part, it was 32 sts to 10 cm. The design I want to use is that ‘swing-style tunic’ that is quite wide at the hemline, like finished circumference of 150 cm/59 in. and the 32 st count would at best get about 128 cm/50 in. To get a wider fabric that still has the look (flat front, nothing too exotic) and simplicity of stockinette (single bed knitting), I like to use that one-row-tuck (1RT) </span><a href="https://knitwords.blogspot.com/2023/05/egg-on-my-face.html" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">https://knitwords.blogspot.com/2023/05/egg-on-my-face.html</a></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">that I’ve used many times before. If you need more reading, put 1RT in the search box at the top left of this blog page and it will bring up a ton of stuff that I’ve posted in the past and by the way, using the standard gauge electronic machine here but can be done on a punchcard machine - see above link!;)</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Made real swatch - going with that HodgePodge trim,</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> <a href="https://knitwords.blogspot.com/2020/07/half-cocked.html">https://knitwords.blogspot.com/2020/07/half-cocked.html</a></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv2mZR2kKX5aQdeRI6oK04t7jkq1zC0a8BLHWvkHmkwgZcGqBJSXWPxp8lM1ZzfQYzhYTO5iJFzRenUUrx-0ySwqJhZldFjzIwl718j4YeHPdscxf5bUSs0-m3M9IBTZkom8yz7l8cZnqSXt7_3TLOPuGmr-SoVIh86B09_qD5-MN8T-qJjuCIfi3QAoc/s1602/1RTTNtunic.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1220" data-original-width="1602" height="153" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv2mZR2kKX5aQdeRI6oK04t7jkq1zC0a8BLHWvkHmkwgZcGqBJSXWPxp8lM1ZzfQYzhYTO5iJFzRenUUrx-0ySwqJhZldFjzIwl718j4YeHPdscxf5bUSs0-m3M9IBTZkom8yz7l8cZnqSXt7_3TLOPuGmr-SoVIh86B09_qD5-MN8T-qJjuCIfi3QAoc/w200-h153/1RTTNtunic.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">With my favourite 1RT, at T8 and T9. Measured the swatches, hot off the machine, then wash and dry, measure final - this way you can get a feel for the amount of shrinkage, maybe for future reference, but also note, the majority of shrinkage is in the length. T8, 27 sts and 46 rows, became 28 sts and 52 rows. T9, 25 sts and 42 rows, ended at 26 sts and 46 rows.</span><br /></span><p></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21.5px;"><br /></p>Mary Anne Ogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05708932333083656667noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3467292679185113990.post-87564725308970803682024-01-24T14:04:00.003-05:002024-01-24T14:11:43.905-05:00mystery yarn…<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisf_HBoOadYBpCFd-T5U43gbRb2Kc_4OKey10euy5-DAvNsqyK5Yg_GBGAFbBRfxhRE3vtIIoQByIO5VILFfyrRzYzVV3WFONSjtV5LmMl7Ulcct7uykEqf7thtNZ-q1RqgO2BgnoF-9pVGq9xTQ2tw56Z3143NL_hymFCra9u8YexnECj-AD0_sOXdtk/s3264/AC6DD4F1-2728-4E6E-97C1-7A3644D0314B.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisf_HBoOadYBpCFd-T5U43gbRb2Kc_4OKey10euy5-DAvNsqyK5Yg_GBGAFbBRfxhRE3vtIIoQByIO5VILFfyrRzYzVV3WFONSjtV5LmMl7Ulcct7uykEqf7thtNZ-q1RqgO2BgnoF-9pVGq9xTQ2tw56Z3143NL_hymFCra9u8YexnECj-AD0_sOXdtk/w200-h150/AC6DD4F1-2728-4E6E-97C1-7A3644D0314B.jpeg" width="200" /></a></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I mean yarn that I am unfamiliar with! ‘Found’ this large </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">cone (750g) of denimy shades of cotton on my shelf - the label says ‘Astro Dye Works, 6/2 K/P cotton’ (also has a ‘BTYarns’ label), so yeah, it’s pretty old. I think I inherited it a couple of years ago when a m/k friend sent me a big box of her stash that she knew she would never use. I’m sure I paid it no attention at the time because there was several cones of wool crepe deluxe that I was swooning over. </span></span></p><p></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I’m looking for some inspiration for a new project and thought this might fit the bill - I love that Tennessee Tunic <a href="https://knitwords.blogspot.com/2023/03/tennessee-re-visited.html">https://knitwords.blogspot.com/2023/03/tennessee-re-visited.html</a></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">from last year and think I’d like a more ‘everyday’ version of it - I have no idea what the 6/2 means- I know it’s something relating to the yards per pound but that 6/2 doesn’t tell me what stitch size to use or what gauge to expect. It’s a bit thicker than Yeomans Brittany (3/14) or Bramwell Montana but not quite what those would be double stranded which I would use at T7 or so.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> <a href="https://knitwords.blogspot.com/2021/05/brittany-is-very-fine-314-2-ply-cotton.html">https://knitwords.blogspot.com/2021/05/brittany-is-very-fine-314-2-ply-cotton.html</a></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21.5px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Didn’t want to double strand it, that would make it thicker than I would like for that tunic and it would change the little ‘camo’ shading that is happening. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Here’s what I do: cast on 21-0-21 ns, and knit about 10 rows at T5 to get the feel of it; seems kind of tight, so go up/bigger stitch size. Then using 2 rows of T10 to separate, knit 20 rows at T6, T7, T8 and T9 - it’s looking rather airy by now so end it. Because this is cotton, some shrinkage is expected and since it is such a large cone, I’ll wash and dry this piece before I decide on what stitch size to use for the real swatch using one of those 1RTs that I like.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">P.S. Showing the purl side of the swatch because the higher stitch size dividing rows show up better in the photo.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21.5px;"><br /></p>Mary Anne Ogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05708932333083656667noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3467292679185113990.post-61351140175165958012024-01-19T10:57:00.002-05:002024-01-19T11:04:01.917-05:00guesstimating…<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Part 3</span></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY68jiqnV8XW6xwdGtQP2rJN8Fbe57H-yxiWPOIFb6oMOCjRa82dPgJ6HpgQRw9Yzi05gFnt2Zwj-Ao2A1syKZB0yAK3XDiPHy80bp_HrUTRupd1_5Kqaq9A64QERWI5S1jAJBChudToVXpxLcnrjLrT-eN1AqoO4aw-a-h9snvoYQ-EMARVdSRFs0xyM/s3264/53B0446B-D762-41ED-AA5A-E9F313D206CF.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY68jiqnV8XW6xwdGtQP2rJN8Fbe57H-yxiWPOIFb6oMOCjRa82dPgJ6HpgQRw9Yzi05gFnt2Zwj-Ao2A1syKZB0yAK3XDiPHy80bp_HrUTRupd1_5Kqaq9A64QERWI5S1jAJBChudToVXpxLcnrjLrT-eN1AqoO4aw-a-h9snvoYQ-EMARVdSRFs0xyM/w200-h150/53B0446B-D762-41ED-AA5A-E9F313D206CF.jpeg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Was so happy that the dish cloth worked out, made a couple without turning off the machine, afraid to lose my ‘spot’ on the needle bed. While doing that and all the other things running through my brain, I decided to use red Bonita (100% mercerized cotton - NLA of course) - I have two full, untouched cones of 500g each and a part cone of 210g which I hoped would be enough for d-i-l, Agnieszka’s, range cover. She’s such a sweetie, she deserves to have red! </span><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Had a small, partial cone of Bonita in tan and quickly made a 4X3 repeat dish cloth (36-0-42 ns, 132 rows, 38g) to use as a swatch. From that, determined the size required for the range cover, (10 wide X 7 high plus 10 checkerboard rows for top border - 90-0-96 ns, 290 rows). I could try to sound pretty smart here and tell you I figured this out mathematically but really what I did was place the dishcloth in the corner of the range top and guesstimated it would need 2.5X wide by 2.5X high…it worked, but had to go into a new full cone by a few grams to get ‘er done! Final weight, 230g!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSRT9KdzETdAjCT1ny8_pFpR4OuIsmEwcJBIDJ0hyphenhyphenzptSy-UMzpe_6l3S1npXprItsQMIhni8_AFwL_96mznUc6L_76IkIZDsP0NI0n03UovRZU8siytiRGTMJDrkbM2l7CENu9PAyCKWWlyqfxdvxu9Aq3dJO03xg-2oXI7dzxZvWYg2cEeaLnNrYrrU/s3264/26D20D61-2485-4D2C-937D-9EA4FC7EDD1C.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSRT9KdzETdAjCT1ny8_pFpR4OuIsmEwcJBIDJ0hyphenhyphenzptSy-UMzpe_6l3S1npXprItsQMIhni8_AFwL_96mznUc6L_76IkIZDsP0NI0n03UovRZU8siytiRGTMJDrkbM2l7CENu9PAyCKWWlyqfxdvxu9Aq3dJO03xg-2oXI7dzxZvWYg2cEeaLnNrYrrU/w200-h150/26D20D61-2485-4D2C-937D-9EA4FC7EDD1C.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div></span><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">While doing those things, and inspired by the fact I got DAK8 on the new computer, decided to try something. Fired up the old laptop and on the second try managed to pull my stitch pattern files off on a flash drive! Ha! I got Janet’s dishcloth files back along with my saved ovencover file (and tons of real stuff!)! Also, in my rummaging, found this old 4 part usb thingy so now I could hook everything up!</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Sent a request for new lock number - had to wait for Monday, but got it! </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Tried out the SL4 - it worked!</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtp22zp_xObjIiaoIY3vnjzWyM24L9pEC4GQeQYUxo7djhDTq1sYB-V_eH2KUnD5Rvt7nN1BhirkuKliYAPCFZgxyQAYKv6tO2kTZDFthKs8ze9VuDx3HVh_Areeo-rrfi4DKHbv-kTpbCzyzSwQNQhL1VgkGOa8BP86wES3nQmAmtElSNnQ1w12-OxZE/s3264/FEA5CF05-B3A9-4607-BF67-FF5E1F1704E5.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtp22zp_xObjIiaoIY3vnjzWyM24L9pEC4GQeQYUxo7djhDTq1sYB-V_eH2KUnD5Rvt7nN1BhirkuKliYAPCFZgxyQAYKv6tO2kTZDFthKs8ze9VuDx3HVh_Areeo-rrfi4DKHbv-kTpbCzyzSwQNQhL1VgkGOa8BP86wES3nQmAmtElSNnQ1w12-OxZE/w200-h150/FEA5CF05-B3A9-4607-BF67-FF5E1F1704E5.jpeg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Loaded my oven cover file without worrying about where it was centred!</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Knit another green one for me, a backup is always good!</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Only lost the signal three times…</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21.5px;"><br /></p></div>Mary Anne Ogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05708932333083656667noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3467292679185113990.post-83584805239854316872024-01-12T11:36:00.007-05:002024-01-12T11:37:50.423-05:00how far…<p><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 18px;">does one go to prove a point? Even if just to oneself? </span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 18px;">Part 2. </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 18px;">I penciled in that stitch pattern, thinking how easy it would be with DesignaKnit, to be able see it on-screen and check the repeat visually, before having to actually test-knit it to see if it works. Determined to not admit defeat kept me invested. As I concentrated on making the dots in those small, little squares, I vaguely recalled having a conversation with my friend Dee who said she had her DAK8 on windows 11. I didn’t really take that to heart at the time because she has a brother machine and all the cables are different and it’s the Silver SL4 that had been causing my grief in the past. She said you could use DAK by leaving the cd in the disc drive. Now, I’m thinking, do I even have a cd of DAK8? A little rummaging and I found it. Gosh, new computer, do I have a disc drive? Yeah! Unopened box! Figured it out, pretty easy, really. I sent an email to my buddy Mike. </span><a href="https://knitwords.blogspot.com/2019/09/its-raining.html" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 18px;">https://knitwords.blogspot.com/2019/09/its-raining.html</a></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">He said yes, DAK8 can be used with windows 11 and check Softbyte’s website for any updates. Did that and downloaded an update because my copy was pretty old, like pre-2011. It seemed to work, but then, I got an application error message tab that said 'memory could not be read. Click ok to terminate the program. Did that, yes, everything closed. Tried again, got the same message but the DesignaKnit logo/program opener was behind it. Instead of ‘ok’, I just moved it aside, clicked on stitch pattern and it finally opened!!</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Need to back up a bit here and tell/remind you about my ‘new’ knitting machine - here’s the full story <a href="https://knitwords.blogspot.com/2019/04/new-to-me-machine.html">https://knitwords.blogspot.com/2019/04/new-to-me-machine.html</a></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit38Z5al7Q8AuPJMkX3PV74wJg70no01Hf6TEoPtV9Uom0cLuFF3fkdvBEhoQQhgegwz0X1PoSiOlWksQdDvCp7Q_3l6pdMqMsrgWRzn1NYu3-UXXo4zIxHXx3bIkgx7MNkALKsgS1NvHy8Smd7pG1YoVMmUgapBjn3ozr9kHAK2THTC5PdBK0BpYRpl0/s2208/125CABA5-76A1-4863-A85C-CC627C0259D7.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2208" data-original-width="2204" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit38Z5al7Q8AuPJMkX3PV74wJg70no01Hf6TEoPtV9Uom0cLuFF3fkdvBEhoQQhgegwz0X1PoSiOlWksQdDvCp7Q_3l6pdMqMsrgWRzn1NYu3-UXXo4zIxHXx3bIkgx7MNkALKsgS1NvHy8Smd7pG1YoVMmUgapBjn3ozr9kHAK2THTC5PdBK0BpYRpl0/w199-h200/125CABA5-76A1-4863-A85C-CC627C0259D7.jpeg" width="199" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">Short version, I have an SK840 knit carriage on the SK580 machine because the 580 has the built-in electronics that still work for the needle bed - I could use it without DAK and knit-from-screen - for patterning which I’ve always found so much easier. Only problem, my 840 carriage does not recognize the N1 cam so positioning the pattern is either totally random or requires you to figure out where the pattern is happening - I probably knew this back in the day, like at the edge of the first point cam but - air knitting is my new fav! <a href="https://knitwords.blogspot.com/2023/04/air-knittibg.html">https://knitwords.blogspot.com/2023/04/air-knittibg.html</a></span><p></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">In the meanwhile, between waiting for emails and searching for random stuff, I did get a couple of dishcloths made! My stitch pattern worked!</p><br /><p></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21.5px;"><br /></p>Mary Anne Ogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05708932333083656667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3467292679185113990.post-18752282706392375182024-01-09T11:42:00.004-05:002024-01-09T12:01:39.809-05:00whatevs…<p><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 18px;">Part 1</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">You’re probably thinking, so what’s the big deal, M A? Make her the stove top cover - it’s nothing more than a tuck stitch rectangle - why are you being such a diva?</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Actually, my first instinct was to say no, I can’t make that anymore. She doesn’t realize that my computer died and along with it DesignaKnit and Janet’s stitch pattern for those dishrags. But I was sort of noncommittal, didn’t want to admit I couldn’t do something - I have this reputation to uphold - also, turned out she wants red and I’m telling you, red is at a premium here at my house. It really should be cotton, so it IS a big deal!</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">My electronic silver reed machine has a 50 st repeat but that isn’t wide enough for the basic dishrag which is about 67 sts x 170 rows and I’d never get the mylar made without several mistakes and damn, I didn’t want to go there!</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I had a few sleepless nights, thinking it through. In my mind, I figured because I would be knitting this without DAK, I’d need to come up with a small stitch pattern, like a punchcard width or less (this one’s 18 sts and I’d use the double length button) and have the checkerboard outline repeat on the second edge, by positioning it on the needle bed, like the pattern wouldn’t be centred, there would be,,, </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrm05LCF_-dtmQRDgijCfZjSMOsjDfGhrfpDa4ZO3R8f-AJsDryoarbV6epk3kTxHXzuwpG-Ew5h-MADROVcRyhb0f6__gCyupxfG98aoqOnAV92TXHiR3JGzrnwG58So5-98FI0C0Leu7TLYkuvn1ue2V4lauGnpCNrOBYcyuoLRjCD2L3SEJD3x6Nos/s584/drag2a.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="584" data-original-width="584" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrm05LCF_-dtmQRDgijCfZjSMOsjDfGhrfpDa4ZO3R8f-AJsDryoarbV6epk3kTxHXzuwpG-Ew5h-MADROVcRyhb0f6__gCyupxfG98aoqOnAV92TXHiR3JGzrnwG58So5-98FI0C0Leu7TLYkuvn1ue2V4lauGnpCNrOBYcyuoLRjCD2L3SEJD3x6Nos/w200-h200/drag2a.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://knitwords.blogspot.com/2009/04/blog-post.html">https://knitwords.blogspot.com/2009/04/blog-post.html</a></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">To take my mind off the dishrag issue, fixed up a few pairs of holey socks and thought some more…</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21.5px;"><br /></p>Mary Anne Ogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05708932333083656667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3467292679185113990.post-87706689885211470442024-01-06T15:43:00.001-05:002024-01-06T15:47:47.845-05:00happy 2024…<p><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu5xnf6VQzZkj0JITV_iaikSALj4xmNX_nZ_JJ0GyPtDx-Yq12L5Qzk0R7th-zfgvDc9MlA3zauhPrbbI0pA8hsHtqSg0qMKjX9L_ZO-LXKW9xXYEkPnrQcL8u9Pa4ezJLV-joN9cPdZsi2ueMYyCzKec_3FZEA89RsM1b_Eo96Sb8OEHRWg1aC7shKBg/s2266/ED2B8E70-9AE2-4C23-A63D-67A17AB9D95F.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2214" data-original-width="2266" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu5xnf6VQzZkj0JITV_iaikSALj4xmNX_nZ_JJ0GyPtDx-Yq12L5Qzk0R7th-zfgvDc9MlA3zauhPrbbI0pA8hsHtqSg0qMKjX9L_ZO-LXKW9xXYEkPnrQcL8u9Pa4ezJLV-joN9cPdZsi2ueMYyCzKec_3FZEA89RsM1b_Eo96Sb8OEHRWg1aC7shKBg/w229-h224/ED2B8E70-9AE2-4C23-A63D-67A17AB9D95F.jpeg" width="229" /></a></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">It’s</span><span style="font-family: Damascus; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">the</span><span style="font-family: Damascus; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">new</span><span style="font-family: Damascus; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">year</span><span style="font-family: Damascus; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">and</span><span style="font-family: Damascus; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">I’m</span><span style="font-family: Damascus; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">reporting</span><span style="font-family: Damascus; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">on</span><span style="font-family: Damascus; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">that</span><span style="font-family: Damascus; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">NP</span><span style="font-family: Damascus; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">pullover…got</span><span style="font-family: Damascus; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">it</span><span style="font-family: Damascus; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">‘finished’</span><span style="font-family: Damascus; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">on</span><span style="font-family: Damascus; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">the</span><span style="font-family: Damascus; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">23rd,</span><span style="font-family: Damascus; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">tried</span><span style="font-family: Damascus; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">it</span><span style="font-family: Damascus; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">on</span><span style="font-family: Damascus; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">and</span><span style="font-family: Damascus; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">it</span><span style="font-family: Damascus; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">was</span><span style="font-family: Damascus; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">too </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">short,</span><span style="font-family: Damascus; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">even</span><span style="font-family: Damascus; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">with</span><span style="font-family: Damascus; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">a</span><span style="font-family: Damascus; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">shirttail</span><span style="font-family: Damascus; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">under…darn!</span><span style="font-family: Damascus; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">It</span><span style="font-family: Damascus; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">just</span><span style="font-family: Damascus; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">looked</span><span style="font-family: Damascus; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">dorky</span><span style="font-family: Damascus; font-size: 14px;">. </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">Plan</span><span style="font-family: Damascus; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">B,</span><span style="font-family: Damascus; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">after</span><span style="font-family: Damascus; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">Christmas</span><span style="font-family: Damascus; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">of</span><span style="font-family: Damascus; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">course,</span><span style="font-family: Damascus; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">pulled</span><span style="font-family: Damascus; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">out</span><span style="font-family: Damascus; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">the</span><span style="font-family: Damascus; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">side</span><span style="font-family: Damascus; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">seams</span><span style="font-family: Damascus; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">and</span><span style="font-family: Damascus; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">the</span><span style="font-family: Damascus; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">cast-off</span><span style="font-family: Damascus; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">row</span><span style="font-family: Damascus; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">of</span><span style="font-family: Damascus; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">rib,</span><span style="font-family: Damascus; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">rehung</span><span style="font-family: Damascus; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">it</span><span style="font-family: Damascus; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">and</span><span style="font-family: Damascus; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">added</span><span style="font-family: Damascus; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">another</span><span style="font-family: Damascus; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">20</span><span style="font-family: Damascus; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">rows</span><span style="font-family: Damascus; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">of</span><span style="font-family: Damascus; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">rib</span><span style="font-family: Damascus; font-size: 14px;">. </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">It’s</span><span style="font-family: Damascus; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">good</span><span style="font-family: Damascus; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">now</span><span style="font-family: Damascus; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">but</span><span style="font-family: Damascus; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">didn’t</span><span style="font-family: Damascus; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">get</span><span style="font-family: Damascus; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">a</span><span style="font-family: Damascus; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">wearing</span><span style="font-family: Damascus; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">photo,</span><span style="font-family: Damascus; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">sorry</span><span style="font-family: Damascus; font-size: 14px;">.</span></p><p></p><span style="font-family: Damascus; font-size: 14px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC5ztmIn2veKTuLJnzPVsUlJijOVpyg11CdvXnRk05N5XW3I1zD69JK7sxIEZhvWTtfWpjZzBXQsPpBpaIFWm0UqyK50pgWoPlHW-6zsOI3UQ8YgsyqCMcyHfCeko2ybr7mMf43oD7ADzFYD9zqMXCDQ9l_xuJ8Ki1ma4bb2EmJ42Lpcxtfj2EulEqzIg/s3260/963E32BF-BFCD-4FFA-B871-19FA3B4303F8.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; 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<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj7C5axod1KNMS8eqnoBXZDZP6A_x8ioBbTOBJemWGyxmBcul9j3UF6WbFdcPTgDrT5ejHoBcnO1CMD9I2d2Nn-SBOPXKJXrY9DigKM8yG0eaTjIRog30LP3NxIt-NZ3u7n5LUzzWQKQXXVKJea03bxxPzo852uNniZA74hlvlvpXhGa00-0Nz-ubb8xA/s2789/692DF998-0CE9-4DAF-B9A4-450548776637.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2263" data-original-width="2789" height="163" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj7C5axod1KNMS8eqnoBXZDZP6A_x8ioBbTOBJemWGyxmBcul9j3UF6WbFdcPTgDrT5ejHoBcnO1CMD9I2d2Nn-SBOPXKJXrY9DigKM8yG0eaTjIRog30LP3NxIt-NZ3u7n5LUzzWQKQXXVKJea03bxxPzo852uNniZA74hlvlvpXhGa00-0Nz-ubb8xA/w200-h163/692DF998-0CE9-4DAF-B9A4-450548776637.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">My<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>company<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>over<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>holidays,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>mostly<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>family,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>wouldn’t<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>you<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>know,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>noticed<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>my<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>lovely<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>range<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>top<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>coverup<span style="font-family: Damascus;">.<a href="http://knitwords.blogspot.com/2023/04/slippery-slope.html"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">http://knitwords</span>.<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">blogspot</span>.<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">com/2023/04/slippery-slope</span>.<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">html</span></a></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>My<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>favourite<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>d-i-l<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>is<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>so<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>cute,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>she<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>says,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>so<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>innocently,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>‘my<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>range<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>top<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>is<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>same<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>size<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>as<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>yours,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>isn’t<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>it?’<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>Wink,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>wink…</p>Mary Anne Ogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05708932333083656667noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3467292679185113990.post-14177482404967124822023-12-20T11:26:00.001-05:002023-12-20T11:26:07.853-05:00could you tell…<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">the</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">difference?</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I’m<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>always<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>anxious<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>to<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>see<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>final<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>product<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>-<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>on<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>Back,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>I<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>opted<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>to<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>knit<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>plain<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>lace<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>from<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>first<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>orange<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>swatch,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>figuring<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>it<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>would<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>save<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>time<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>over<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>two-step<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>transfers<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>of<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>outlined<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>diamonds<span style="font-family: Damascus;">. </span>Timed<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>myself,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>20<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>minutes<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>for<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>101<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>sts<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>wide<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>by<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>one<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>20-row<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>repeat<span style="font-family: Damascus;">. </span>Seemed<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>pretty<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>quick,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>got<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>Back<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>completed<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>in<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>no<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>time<span style="font-family: Damascus;">. </span>Hung<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>cast-on<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>row,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>knit<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>18<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>rows<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>as<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>MAO<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>instructions<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>for<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>hand-latched<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>rib<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>and<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>got<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>‘er<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>done!</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Now,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>you<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>might<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>think<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>I’m<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>spending<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>continuous<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>hours<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>at<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>machine,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>but<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>no!<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>I’ve<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>learned<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>to<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>pace<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>myself!<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>Break<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>it<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>up<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>-<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>I<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>do<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>one<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>repeat<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>(20<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>rows)<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>and<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>take<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>a<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>breather,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>even<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>if<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>it’s<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>just<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>to<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>get<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>a<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>fresh<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>glass<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>of<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>water,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>or<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>take<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>a<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>photo<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>or<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>a<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>real<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>break<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>and<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>make<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>a<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>batch<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>of<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>cookie<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>dough<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>or<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>whatever!<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Damascus;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhughldHoYXt-gfDICH_p-E6hTHPrbNKGmhzbnmNjmcc34PfxTvQ5W-jXhd4L2FGV04CalVLkHcpH22J9Yi6cNRqpmXCIummcqZYNu_CCOyAR0g3tVbe8MhP0J6Tx86qwjfIDkSlUJwzRYxkrTR4_gBCBJV56QIOVvqh280q_QjNBIsHBldlFvgEGZT2a8/s1655/8CC1AF4E-5520-43BC-A83A-1700DC0FE5D5.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1458" data-original-width="1655" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhughldHoYXt-gfDICH_p-E6hTHPrbNKGmhzbnmNjmcc34PfxTvQ5W-jXhd4L2FGV04CalVLkHcpH22J9Yi6cNRqpmXCIummcqZYNu_CCOyAR0g3tVbe8MhP0J6Tx86qwjfIDkSlUJwzRYxkrTR4_gBCBJV56QIOVvqh280q_QjNBIsHBldlFvgEGZT2a8/w200-h176/8CC1AF4E-5520-43BC-A83A-1700DC0FE5D5.jpeg" width="200" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Damascus;"><br /></span></span><p></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">For<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>Front,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>went<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>back<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>to<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>two-step<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>transfers<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>and<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>what<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>do<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>you<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>know,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>that<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>20-row<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>repeat<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>took<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>25<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>minutes,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>whoop-de-do!<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>Used<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>stopwatch<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>timer<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>on<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>iPod<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>and<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>Front<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>was<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>done<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>in<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>2<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>hrs,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>15<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>min!<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>Was<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>it<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>worth<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>time-saving<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>for<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>Back?<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>No,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>but<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>even<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>if<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>I<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>didn’t<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>tell<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>you,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>not<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>likely<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>you’d<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>have<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>noticed,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>and<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>my<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>Christmas<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>company<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>sure<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>won’t<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>and<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>I<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>proved<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>a<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>point<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>in<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>my<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>own<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>mind<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>anyway!</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Just<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>a<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>few<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>reminders,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>Cindy!<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">At<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>top<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>of<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>sleeve<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>cap,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>shortrowed<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>of<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>course,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>after<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>RTR<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>(remove,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>turn,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>rehang),<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>knit<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>a<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>row<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>for<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>that<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>garter<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>stitch<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>ridge<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>and<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>then,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>measure<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>off<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>5X<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>width<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>of<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>work<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>to<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>have<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>enough<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>yarn<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>to<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>make<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>loose<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>row<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>for<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>final<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>cast-off<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>after<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>joining<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>sleeve<span style="font-family: Damascus;">.</span></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">You<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>may<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>have<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>noticed<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>shoulder<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>seams-used<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>outside<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>seaming<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>technique<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>that<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>has<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>become<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>my<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>favourite<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>method<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>-<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>I<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>like<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>way<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>it<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>defines<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>shoulder<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>when<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>you<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>have<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>a<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>good-fitting<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>set-in<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>sleeve<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>but<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>here,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>I<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>also<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>used<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>it<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>to<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>cover<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>up<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>fact<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>that<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>I<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>forgot<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>to<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>flip<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>pattern<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>for<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>second<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>piece,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>Front,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>and<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>have<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>extra<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>stitch<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>at<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>left<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>instead<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>of<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>right,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>so<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>pattern<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>doesn’t<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>match<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>at<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>shoulder…;))<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>Might<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>be<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>a<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>good<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>idea<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>to<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>read<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>page<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>64<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>of<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>HMMK<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>which<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>explains<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>‘flipping<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>pattern’!</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I’m<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>almost<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>done,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>just<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>bottom<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>rib<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>on<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>Front<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>and<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>final<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>seaming,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>planning<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>to<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>wear<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>this<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>for<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>my<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>open<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>house<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>on<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>Christmas<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>Eve<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>-<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>hope<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>I<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>can<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>get<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>someone<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>to<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>take<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>an<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>on-person<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>photo!</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">PS<span style="font-family: Damascus;">. </span>What<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>I’ve<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>been<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>watching<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>and<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>liking<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>-<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>in<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>case<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>you<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>need<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>some<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>down<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>time,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>The<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>Bear,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>Hijack,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>Slow<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>Horses,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>I<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>Know<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>This<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>Much<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>is<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> True…</span></span></p>Mary Anne Ogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05708932333083656667noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3467292679185113990.post-65342842249473659992023-12-13T11:57:00.001-05:002023-12-13T12:11:23.678-05:00undaunted…<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Hey</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Cindy,</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">I’m</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">glad</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">you</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">asked,</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">I</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">was</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">going</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">to</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">tell</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">you</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">anyway,</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">but</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">it’s</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">good</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">to</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">know</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">you’re</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">on</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">board!</span></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Helvetica; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGS0hyPQJOSnoW-LHWPEOS1let_N_3y5eHyJuLO5mwJSSrFGC3e9NFMZ7xTii_FF9dJgpo8B0SV8NFhboshocih9mCJ41t0Yt2Ln2gHYLV22aGOmX_nDuGmw0uTEKvg9ixNY5kTysgocmRAEwLLds2W5uW9XzrjGB_Ngvb4a9hbJs7Shy1s7nvTEWpFWg/s2486/NPdiamstpat.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2486" data-original-width="1376" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGS0hyPQJOSnoW-LHWPEOS1let_N_3y5eHyJuLO5mwJSSrFGC3e9NFMZ7xTii_FF9dJgpo8B0SV8NFhboshocih9mCJ41t0Yt2Ln2gHYLV22aGOmX_nDuGmw0uTEKvg9ixNY5kTysgocmRAEwLLds2W5uW9XzrjGB_Ngvb4a9hbJs7Shy1s7nvTEWpFWg/w111-h200/NPdiamstpat.jpg" width="111" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Back</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">to</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">that</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">stitch</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">pattern I</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">mentioned</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">earlier,</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> ‘</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Outlined</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Diamonds,</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">horizontal’,</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">page</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">60</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">from</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">The</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Handbook</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">for</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Manual</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Machine</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Knitters</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">-</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">HMMK</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">-</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">to</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">make</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">that</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">an</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">all-over</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">pattern,</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">you</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">need</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">to</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">delete</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">the</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">last</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">two</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">rows</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">and</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">the</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">20</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;">-</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">row</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">repeat</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">gives</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">you</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">the</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">all-over</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">repeat</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;">. </span></span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4DazCP0yJofZSoQw6hyEUdh6G1Y5nfTDyrCR5tizRdW-CRLLKov4b_XcHHPgsx8etLUtCMcTE7hLzdSSgSmuEki7jQjvI2KoBcHnJmeX5-gezHz_flQQZdti9pCCMZysxFg10s3SBBpaiZepr2-Nr-_wadQSqd1LfvI_3qndN_AEiAv0yvMFtVRF0BWo/s2601/72962C36-5C8C-4594-91C4-BDAB62AAB2AD.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" 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<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Something<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>I<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>never<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>mentioned,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>top<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>half<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>of<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>inside<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>of<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>diamond<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>on<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>NP’s<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>sweater<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>was<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>reverse<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>stockinette<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>which,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>on<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>a<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>flat<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>bed<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>knitting<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>machine<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>is<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>a<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>nightmare!<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> <a href="https://knitwords.blogspot.com/2020/04/pushing-envelope.html"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">https://knitwords</span>.<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">blogspot</span>.<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">com/2020/04/pushing-envelope</span>.<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">html</span></a></span></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>means<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>you<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>are<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>reforming<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>every<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>stitch!<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>I<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>changed<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>it<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>to<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>garter<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>stitch<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>ridges<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>so<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>only<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>reform<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>on<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>every<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>other<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>row<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>-<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>much<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>easier<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>and<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>quicker!<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>And<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>I<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>felt<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>it<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>was<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>only<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>needed<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>at<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>top<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>of<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>pieces<span style="font-family: Damascus;">. </span>Sometimes<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>less<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>is<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>better<span style="font-family: Damascus;">.</span></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0N1zkGlm8egp2IRG9s0PJWTsUKFARBjipRfGgXWHvbLrbZw8lSfB4DL7yiTwDG81h8YIMcsNEGf6nyUKeJz7FhTLx9oWIrgGIc2113Wb8CJHjATfMxNygFr1VJhpNLLUadN1hLvkeCGgjMh0S5ScFiRx9PS2CDKBzxWYzntm2Fzp0M-NwMf_Qbirzb6Q/s3296/NPschem.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3296" data-original-width="2544" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0N1zkGlm8egp2IRG9s0PJWTsUKFARBjipRfGgXWHvbLrbZw8lSfB4DL7yiTwDG81h8YIMcsNEGf6nyUKeJz7FhTLx9oWIrgGIc2113Wb8CJHjATfMxNygFr1VJhpNLLUadN1hLvkeCGgjMh0S5ScFiRx9PS2CDKBzxWYzntm2Fzp0M-NwMf_Qbirzb6Q/w154-h200/NPschem.jpg" width="154" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />The<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>ribbing,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>go<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>to<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>HMMK,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>page 95<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>and<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>read<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>section<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>on<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>‘Machine<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>Ribbed<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>Bands’<span style="font-family: Damascus;">. </span>I<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>chose<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>‘K2,P1<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>with<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>rib<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>wise<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>cast<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>off’<span style="font-family: Damascus;">. </span>The<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>ribbed<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>bands<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>are<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>added<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>to<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>bottom<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>and<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>knit<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>down<span style="font-family: Damascus;">. </span>The<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>first<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>cuff,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>I<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>did<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>on<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>LK<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>and<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>relatched<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>50<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>rows…it<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>can<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>be<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>done<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>if<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>you<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>need<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>to<span style="font-family: Damascus;">. </span>Key<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>word,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>need!<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>The<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>second<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>one,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>I<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>hung<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>on<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>standard<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>gauge,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>set<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>it<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>up<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>for<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>K2,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>P1,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>and<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>at<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>T10/T10,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>no<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>tension<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>on<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>yarn<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>(like<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>you’re<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>hand-feeding<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>yarn<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>for<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>looser<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>stitches)<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>got<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>job<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>done!<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>I’m<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>not<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>even<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>going<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>to<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>tell<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>you<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>about<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>that<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>starter-sleeve<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>that,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>only<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>as<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>I<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>was<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>shortrowing<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>cap<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>did<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>I<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>notice<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>there<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>were 15 more<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>stitches<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>at<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>left<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>side!!!</span><p></p>Mary Anne Ogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05708932333083656667noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3467292679185113990.post-1763684329239195282023-12-11T14:50:00.002-05:002023-12-11T17:06:26.625-05:00master plan…<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> <span style="font-family: Helvetica;">If</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">I’m</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">committing</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">to</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">a</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">new</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">design,</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">what</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">are</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">the</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">steps?</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">I</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">have</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">the</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">stitch</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">pattern</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">but</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">the</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">shape?</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">I</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">go</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">to</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">the</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">cupboard</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">and</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">drag</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">out</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">the</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">pullovers</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">I’ve</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">made</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">recently…and</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">if</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">you’ve</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">been</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">following</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">me,</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">you</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">know,</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">I’m</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">not</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">much</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">for</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">pullovers</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;">. </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">As</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">you</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">can</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">see,</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">they</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">are</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">mostly</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">tunics</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;">. </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">I</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">try</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">them</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">all</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">on,</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">turning</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">this</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">way</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">and</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">that</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">and</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">I</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">want</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">something</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">different!</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Virtually</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">everything</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">I’ve</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">made</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">for</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">myself</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">in</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">the</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">last</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">ten</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">years,</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">except</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">for</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">the</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">sleeveless</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">tops</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">have</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">been</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">below</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">the</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">hip</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">-</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">what</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">does</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">that</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">say</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">about</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">my</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">wardrobe?</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">I’m</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">old-school</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">-</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">when</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">wearing</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">leggings</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">or</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">yoga</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">pants,</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">I</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">want</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">the</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">crotch</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">covered!</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a 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<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>even<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>went<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>downstairs<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>and<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>dug<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>up<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>some<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>of<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>old<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>mid<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>gauge<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>stuff<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>-<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>wow!<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>Here’s<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>a<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>tip<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>-<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>if<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>you<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>have<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>a<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>cardigan<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>or<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>even<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>a<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>vee<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>neck<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>and<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>want<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>to<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>see<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>what<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>it<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>looks<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>like<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>as<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>a<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>pullover,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>put<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>it<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>on<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>backwards!</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Another<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>quirk,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>I<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>haven’t<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>used<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>ribbing<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>on<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>any<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>sweater<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>for<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>eons,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>so<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>here,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>out<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>of<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>blue,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>I’m<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>going<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>short,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>not<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>quite<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>cropped<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>but,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>wide<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>body<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>and<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>hig-hip,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>a<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>deep<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>ribbed<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>cuff,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>inspired<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>by<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>NP’s<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>sweater,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>a<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>diamond<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>lace<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>hand-transferred<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>stitch<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>with<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>rib<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>at<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>wide<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>hem<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>and<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>round<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>neck…</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Oh,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>and<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>yarn,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>one<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>I’ve<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>used<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>before,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>Forsell<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>Yarns,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>Touch<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>of<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>Silk,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>a<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>DK<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>weight,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>90<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>wool,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>10<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>silk<span style="font-family: Damascus;">.</span></span></p>
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<p style="font-family: Damascus; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14.3px;"><br /></p>Mary Anne Ogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05708932333083656667noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3467292679185113990.post-77959575062266944662023-12-07T12:14:00.002-05:002023-12-07T12:19:46.252-05:00mystery solved…<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">On</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">the</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">first</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">swatch,</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">at</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">the</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">bottom,</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">I</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">did</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">a</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">plain</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">lace</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">transfer</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">where</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">you</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">simply</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">take</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">the</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">stitch</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">from</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">the</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">needle</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">where</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">you</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">want</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">the</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">hole</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">and</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">move</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">it</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">left</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">or</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">right</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;">. </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Because</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">I</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">was</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">trying</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">for</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">a</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">machine</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">knit</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">transfer,</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">I</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">did</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">it</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">on</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">every</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">other</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">row,</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">like</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">a</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">lace</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">carriage</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">would</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">do</span><span style="font-family: Damascus;">. </span></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Normally,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>when<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>I’m<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>doing<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>a<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>hand<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>transferred<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>design<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>on<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>any<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>knitting<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>machine,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>I<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>try<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>to<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>plan<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>it<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>so<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>there<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>are<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>two<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>plain<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>rows<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>between<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>transfers<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>-<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>easier<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>to<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>remember<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>(when<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>carriage<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>is<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>at<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>right,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>time<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>to<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>transfer)<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>and<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>if<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>you<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>only<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>have<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>to<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>stop<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>every<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>second<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>row,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>it’s<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>faster<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>and<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>that’s<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>what<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>machine<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>knitting<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>is<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>all<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>about,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>right?<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Damascus;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmEmkVLT4E7OjYrqcxml7_tu_vsXbFFLgm8OmXypRbN_4Vi3kTAKzNTEEsbsEGLBNagE0D33cSzHYfVub4HaFUqZdFDFufedax9neF6DnZtWuJZHF40Y-HM8urOhfLQaIKQT_NSX3HF4vMZRUp55FaflQql7-nmGKp8HAKR3sEXTjU9HvwtC6nHdMS23c/s2480/orangediamondlace.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2342" data-original-width="2480" height="189" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmEmkVLT4E7OjYrqcxml7_tu_vsXbFFLgm8OmXypRbN_4Vi3kTAKzNTEEsbsEGLBNagE0D33cSzHYfVub4HaFUqZdFDFufedax9neF6DnZtWuJZHF40Y-HM8urOhfLQaIKQT_NSX3HF4vMZRUp55FaflQql7-nmGKp8HAKR3sEXTjU9HvwtC6nHdMS23c/w200-h189/orangediamondlace.jpg" width="200" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Damascus;"><br /></span></span><p></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>based<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>it<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>on<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>a<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>10<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>stitch<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>repeat,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>like<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>‘Outlined<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>diamonds’<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>page<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>60<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>from<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>my<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>book,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span><i>The<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>Handbook<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>for<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>Manual<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>Machine<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>Knitters</i>,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>but<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>instead<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>of<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>two-step<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>transfer<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>that<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>makes<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>outline,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>just<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>picked<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>up<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>hole<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>stitch<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>and<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>moved<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>it<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>one<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>space, doing each side of the diamond on every other row so I had a transfer on every row. </span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>I<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>knew<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>this<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>wasn’t<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>what<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>was<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>on<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>blue<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>NP<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>sweater<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>from<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>yesterday,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>but<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>I<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>needed<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>a<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>reference<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>point<span style="font-family: Damascus;">. </span>On<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>about<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>last<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>row,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>it<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>dawned<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>on<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>me<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>-<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>hah,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>actual<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>pattern<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>in<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>that<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>garment<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>was<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>transferring<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>stitch<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>wrong<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>way,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>or<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>what<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>happens<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>when<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>you<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>start<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>a<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>lace<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>carriage<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>pattern<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>with<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>lace<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>carriage<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>on<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>wrong<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>side!<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>See<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>top<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>swatch!</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Now,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>what<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>to<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>do?<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>Is<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>this<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>enough<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>to<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>spur<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>me<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>on?<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>I<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>have<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>sock<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>knitting<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>going<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>on<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>on<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>the<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>standard<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>gauge,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>I<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>have<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>Christmas<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>baking<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>to<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>do,<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>I<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>have<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>company<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>coming<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>to<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>stay<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>over<span style="font-family: Damascus;"> </span>Christmas…</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr-D10BRdv4LZNh5Krv8v2C4gY4-s9vh6OxQ-AjpKMsXKAa-7THgJ89RDfkYGlxuo2cDpy-4kuldj8VYHnT4lGM_LCqwYmJq3Tr_O7XEicyz14_GesMXgVMritzKp2sOfN10zEN0L81UW0Az1BPxYZWZKxmG_AagUuhVv_vgfU2CFGAgfaiK91OJoVVUU/s2347/3EC0A0C7-A751-4490-888A-013F9A8718E2.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1809" data-original-width="2347" height="154" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr-D10BRdv4LZNh5Krv8v2C4gY4-s9vh6OxQ-AjpKMsXKAa-7THgJ89RDfkYGlxuo2cDpy-4kuldj8VYHnT4lGM_LCqwYmJq3Tr_O7XEicyz14_GesMXgVMritzKp2sOfN10zEN0L81UW0Az1BPxYZWZKxmG_AagUuhVv_vgfU2CFGAgfaiK91OJoVVUU/w200-h154/3EC0A0C7-A751-4490-888A-013F9A8718E2.jpeg" width="200" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></span><p></p>Mary Anne Ogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05708932333083656667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3467292679185113990.post-4804466980325759602023-12-06T17:02:00.003-05:002023-12-06T17:18:35.507-05:00Hand knit or….<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I was out the other day - manfriend had an appointment and asked me to go with - second ears and all that! He’s having his second hip replacement, not a big deal, but I’m happy to be called on to support. We met with a young nurse practitioner, probably in her late thirties/early forties, tall, slim, blonde, casual-like and I’m only telling you this for background. She was wearing this sweater that, during the appointment, I became obsessed with. It was pretty, medium blue, mid-weight yarn, in a simple lace diamond stitch pattern and it looked very nice on her. What really attracted me was the size of the holes of the lace - she had a black cami under it and maybe that made the holes seem larger? and I honestly couldn’t tell if it was a plain, old-school hand-knit with a repeated mistake or if it was a ‘bought’ sweater. I was eyeballing the neckline, the seaming, checking the deep ribbed cuffs, the set-in sleeves, noting the details, looking for clues! </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Halfway through her questions, I caught myself re-designing the stitch pattern, the way I thought it should be! At the end of the meeting, I did ask her if she’d made the sweater. Oh no, she could never do anything like that and she gave me the details of where she bought it. I told her how nice she looked in it and strangely, I could hardly wait to get home to try it out! LK150, here I come! </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://knitwords.blogspot.com/2023/03/tennessee-re-visited.html">http://knitwords.blogspot.com/2023/03/tennessee-re-visited.html</a></span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://knitwords.blogspot.com/2020/04/living-on-edge.html"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">https://knitwords.blogspot.com/2020/04/living-on-edge.html</span></a></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">You can probably tell, I don’t get out much!</span></p>Mary Anne Ogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05708932333083656667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3467292679185113990.post-82490718122202657012023-11-10T12:46:00.012-05:002023-11-10T14:51:05.313-05:00lost in translation…<p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7NGyx5zrfdVJTjvGhuBFM3FRRcUTcZ7SEe8TTbRKGA_eljxuQUVc_CQGzkOLJ5nWGBl0LeX9kAh9jL4CNTLzQhtuId5ilQnV1AU5gqKxOt3YeOIkCQuWwpKtAWXqVDIapvylsdZbHEpbjFZKkWEGT0_AADEYeegqJ1clTFbJWYUlCtwGyvBTO83v-qq4/s3045/2757B84B-9C5C-44EA-BBCA-D1BE37020B5E.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3045" data-original-width="2300" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7NGyx5zrfdVJTjvGhuBFM3FRRcUTcZ7SEe8TTbRKGA_eljxuQUVc_CQGzkOLJ5nWGBl0LeX9kAh9jL4CNTLzQhtuId5ilQnV1AU5gqKxOt3YeOIkCQuWwpKtAWXqVDIapvylsdZbHEpbjFZKkWEGT0_AADEYeegqJ1clTFbJWYUlCtwGyvBTO83v-qq4/w151-h200/2757B84B-9C5C-44EA-BBCA-D1BE37020B5E.jpeg" width="151" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Thanks for the positive remarks!</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">I wasn’t looking for a new career path - what part of ‘I’m not into investing or learning new stuff! ’ did you not understand? ;). I was merely updating you on the situation here and attempting to reassure you that even though the Knitwords website is gone, this blog will remain - it does not cost me anything and I’m not mad enough to delete it all!</span></span><p></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">So, back to knitting! </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">My sis, Marnie, loved her ‘Kickin’ Around’! When she saw it, she said, oh great! It goes with jeans - I don’t have to get dressed up to wear it! And it’s so soft!</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I wanted to tell you what I did in making changes - here’s the link to the original schematic and what I did for the red one:</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://knitwords.blogspot.com/2023/06/shoulder-pad-free-zone.html " target="_blank">http://knitwords.blogspot.com/2023/06/shoulder-pad-free-zone.html </a></span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg09yeGwIpTJNYdY1kZ6_176Do6jVCbvTDpr3hwqkZkUE6P97VgwOazyRuaQn8pjuW_PqwVvps9SzWluYpkbU1Xab87Curlm4Dbkb1Us9XOGIX85SC5mSit95I1q9EfZ4ZnBovDUJUYlRy66xg772Q-0IVE63VrVzQPxR4AS9b9PHqSp3Mi00LlN_zZ0wo/s3296/kickmarnschem.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3296" data-original-width="2544" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg09yeGwIpTJNYdY1kZ6_176Do6jVCbvTDpr3hwqkZkUE6P97VgwOazyRuaQn8pjuW_PqwVvps9SzWluYpkbU1Xab87Curlm4Dbkb1Us9XOGIX85SC5mSit95I1q9EfZ4ZnBovDUJUYlRy66xg772Q-0IVE63VrVzQPxR4AS9b9PHqSp3Mi00LlN_zZ0wo/w154-h200/kickmarnschem.jpg" width="154" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br />And here’s the new schematic for Marnie’s. Basically what I did was widen the hemline to add extra width for the hip area, and made the bust a little narrower, so turned the side seam into an A-line, and adding short rows to the bottom to make a curve to the hemline so it wouldn’t be pulling up in the centre. It does add a very flattering slight flare to the bottom that is not really noticeable when you’re wearing it.</span><p></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">OMG! I did it! Made a new blogpost with photos and a link! And all on my own! ;))</span></p>Mary Anne Ogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05708932333083656667noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3467292679185113990.post-20299808452699747062023-11-05T11:23:00.002-05:002023-11-05T11:23:44.211-05:00 end of an era…<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">You may have noticed the Knitwords website is no longer. Things happen, technology changes and I can’t keep up! And when it’s over, it’s over! After all, it’s been 13 years since we published! We hadn’t been able to update or make any changes to the website since 2012 - old programs and old systems that became obsolete. I was hoping I would be able to continue blogging here but we will see - my windows7 computer has blu-screened a couple of times - I have a new windows11 computer but all of the old programs I used for photos, charts and even word processing won’t work on the new one and I’m not into investing or learning new stuff! </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Not sure if this is my final goodbye here but I am still at the email of <a href="mailto:knitwords@shaw.ca">knitwords@shaw.ca</a> and am happy to help, answer questions and offer my books, magazines and patterns. Still knitting here…</span></p><div><br /></div>Mary Anne Ogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05708932333083656667noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3467292679185113990.post-51956784742401586722023-09-25T16:00:00.005-04:002023-11-05T18:26:05.352-05:00before and after...<p><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">I know you’ve been dying to find out and
yes, I had enough to finish up that blue-y </span><i style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Kickin’ Around</i><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;"> for my sister –
just! It was a good thing I decided to use the swatch for the top of the Back
because it wouldn’t really show up as re-knit and after all the very small
bands, I was left with very little – probably not enough to make a second hem
band if necessary!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxdDB8hTTN2ZbvPCfNsltlRfy2GqUam3n-GyEoLSb3i373hS4O2PIJkHgD0XFCMEXvev2tqrWdsuLu1SXkrqEWKrB2uEzcsf1spDr359mzCFxs4zHOE2V05r70wRnWoN6CKEk-n0BnpQckCuXWTyocuU2YCPnsODjZQNrqap0sTWEItbCCbMGp8X34f80/s3640/kick2before.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3104" data-original-width="3640" height="171" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxdDB8hTTN2ZbvPCfNsltlRfy2GqUam3n-GyEoLSb3i373hS4O2PIJkHgD0XFCMEXvev2tqrWdsuLu1SXkrqEWKrB2uEzcsf1spDr359mzCFxs4zHOE2V05r70wRnWoN6CKEk-n0BnpQckCuXWTyocuU2YCPnsODjZQNrqap0sTWEItbCCbMGp8X34f80/w200-h171/kick2before.JPG" width="200" /></a></div><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Got the seaming done and all the ends
darned in and was sort of worried because it felt like it was a whole lot
bigger than I really wanted – yep, it was! Laid it out and put my red one on top
and yikes! The blue one was huge. Fingers crossed, did an aggressive wash –
warm water and some agitation – it worked! Natural fibres, what can I say?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHJg9RMCShtegckwvZQrTP7W0ee3XZ42mBEiUYwVGCkuWvgfnz4U2_H49QjbtDwhH7CBixnwLXXeXM9d1bUuRsuICHQ_oPeprwfaR44MAIfSKYQQJP1lsLF3uHoBX9ulWm21_TY62FoTdPWfeotCAxhEwjRLRS7fAl4GmREKnNnHJKt0iLGm4oIhibnaY/s3392/kick2after.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2608" data-original-width="3392" height="154" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHJg9RMCShtegckwvZQrTP7W0ee3XZ42mBEiUYwVGCkuWvgfnz4U2_H49QjbtDwhH7CBixnwLXXeXM9d1bUuRsuICHQ_oPeprwfaR44MAIfSKYQQJP1lsLF3uHoBX9ulWm21_TY62FoTdPWfeotCAxhEwjRLRS7fAl4GmREKnNnHJKt0iLGm4oIhibnaY/w200-h154/kick2after.JPG" width="200" /></a></div><br /><o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Came out to the perfect size that I had
planned, slightly longer, slightly A-line and you know what? I like it better
than mine! Maybe I’ll take both and let her choose which one…</span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Leaving tomorrow!</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjKxaXKlw7hYhGtsNJm4nWfvrQM5H5LFLNYGgj5xj_s5CaGz4BNBxT9g-jYAfgsxaDPdOz6uYsP0QlzW1o_hgfBE65vHlUcxhMVOSXBtm-lzlRFyFlzX647iXbDQa_ptZkLtHkvIKDzj9eN-t22GeHYxdUKUyr7POsm5jNJc_jBzr1pPTb0P_JLglew2c/s3120/kick2f.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2672" data-original-width="3120" height="171" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjKxaXKlw7hYhGtsNJm4nWfvrQM5H5LFLNYGgj5xj_s5CaGz4BNBxT9g-jYAfgsxaDPdOz6uYsP0QlzW1o_hgfBE65vHlUcxhMVOSXBtm-lzlRFyFlzX647iXbDQa_ptZkLtHkvIKDzj9eN-t22GeHYxdUKUyr7POsm5jNJc_jBzr1pPTb0P_JLglew2c/w200-h171/kick2f.JPG" width="200" /></a></div><br /><o:p></o:p><p></p>Mary Anne Ogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05708932333083656667noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3467292679185113990.post-85992421682041620752023-09-13T15:18:00.004-04:002023-09-13T15:18:36.172-04:00i was getting a little concerned...<p>H<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">alfway up the Back, yeah, I was! You know that 'running out of yarn anxiety' feeling. Had started
out with 7 new balls and the one knitted into the swatch, which I was thinking
was my back-up plan – unravel it to do the bands. The Sleeves consumed two and
a half balls. Here I was at a crucial point – I did have a second backup plan –
had 2 balls of the same yarn in a black colourway and I think, at one point, on
the old manfriend design, I’d thought I could put a wide band of black just
below the underarm point but I’m getting totally lazy and didn’t want to think
that hard now!<br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA0coMq92kKtQfWyWNGvUR0wUTh3psWeQF304HZlLeu2xjCCUSAzlTtKGmw3IAeInsySG8zwUY8pnx0QbpRCiDuCYXyI_IRmAXvtYh1mXb0BG6hGCGJ3wi_Kxlv3saFSpbuGhFGNRyVBtwLXBRHN-bzSoZJTirxfByiMtDip7R9RQtIOn8bAdLLxzDK5E/s4256/kick2sleeves.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2672" data-original-width="4256" height="126" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA0coMq92kKtQfWyWNGvUR0wUTh3psWeQF304HZlLeu2xjCCUSAzlTtKGmw3IAeInsySG8zwUY8pnx0QbpRCiDuCYXyI_IRmAXvtYh1mXb0BG6hGCGJ3wi_Kxlv3saFSpbuGhFGNRyVBtwLXBRHN-bzSoZJTirxfByiMtDip7R9RQtIOn8bAdLLxzDK5E/w200-h126/kick2sleeves.JPG" width="200" /></a></div><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I took the sleeves and placed them over my
red sweater, hoping it would<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>make me
feel better but my rational brain is telling me those sleeves are going to
shrink down – the yarn is all totally natural as opposed to the wool/acrylic of
the Kramer Tatamy Tweed that made up the red one so comparing unshrunk sleeves
was just looking for a false sense of security! Plus the fact that Marnie’s
sweater was a bit bigger – she’s kind of the opposite to me – even though we
are the same height, I have a large chest and no butt while she’s smaller on
top, so I’m actually making hers A-line and a bit longer than mine.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUUpSvBRuKnQAsCnY_efQ-t5mWmRrbX2a_zF-oP4lrc5SF20eERH0iftyC6ZOI3Ljj-SpKWor-w0lTCO6shhk5TufoinBDy6eLGB_afElrsg7n81y9DjhWJpKHO5AJAc6Z4JfDZiMuSFgb_-XAXRKLPGYCf_cwbFRhadVbGuHvGoy559wVEGWArGaQ6Yo/s3120/kick2Backontop.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2672" data-original-width="3120" height="171" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUUpSvBRuKnQAsCnY_efQ-t5mWmRrbX2a_zF-oP4lrc5SF20eERH0iftyC6ZOI3Ljj-SpKWor-w0lTCO6shhk5TufoinBDy6eLGB_afElrsg7n81y9DjhWJpKHO5AJAc6Z4JfDZiMuSFgb_-XAXRKLPGYCf_cwbFRhadVbGuHvGoy559wVEGWArGaQ6Yo/w200-h171/kick2Backontop.JPG" width="200" /></a></div><br /><o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Bite the bullet and power through, hope
for the best? I mean, ripping it out and re-knitting with the black stripe
wouldn’t be so bad, would it? Spent half a minute weighing up my options,
ripped out the swatch piece and knit the rest of the Back. I’m not convinced
that I actually washed that swatch and so what if I did? Life goes on! I still have a week or so...<o:p></o:p></span></p>Mary Anne Ogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05708932333083656667noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3467292679185113990.post-73870084883749191512023-09-06T13:05:00.005-04:002023-09-06T13:07:06.673-04:00justified...<p><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6S59QQ2kPvlRtfd6xAJ24TROsnmEKnalwJe-M7PB14EGQET_UG9GKKYbAKl-SdKeHkPaFfU6oaRV88A4HjFgRxqKbnTAXbvfh_3HKIWOtdno102EQBtqGKI9xYbfPQRoUwNObmEFadmhSQDblCmoBRIZrk__J4t4kKTkeAmfQfjtF4yvbP6V7JXXPElA/s4264/kick2unladder.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2672" data-original-width="4264" height="126" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6S59QQ2kPvlRtfd6xAJ24TROsnmEKnalwJe-M7PB14EGQET_UG9GKKYbAKl-SdKeHkPaFfU6oaRV88A4HjFgRxqKbnTAXbvfh_3HKIWOtdno102EQBtqGKI9xYbfPQRoUwNObmEFadmhSQDblCmoBRIZrk__J4t4kKTkeAmfQfjtF4yvbP6V7JXXPElA/w200-h126/kick2unladder.JPG" width="200" /></a></div><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">You know that saying, ‘the hurrier I go,
the behinder I get’? well, maybe it’s not exactly an old saying but it’s like
when I think this is going to be so easy, somehow it isn’t! On the first
sleeve, I got almost up to the sleeve cap before noticing I forgot to add in
the vertical lines as I was increasing! F-u-d-g-e! Crud! I tried dropping the stitch,
but it made a huge bar, compared to the nice line of the needle out of work.
Then I thought, oh well, that will all be in the underarm area and no one will
notice. Yeah! That works for me!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Then the quandary, fix it on the next one,
or make the second one exactly the same? Yes, I’m going with that and if ever
anyone points it out, I can say I planned it like that! See, they are both the
same! </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOdRlknGtF1SS5lqfRkJ1cAghTsRVSnlOUUL4vjUzePkHjd1uv3e4nLbg1Cjfk7y-dhfKpUrqLcFHqXn4huW1my4A5cw0xpmNl3pkte4oXE5m_w9_25KdxH2N7Kz-uDhT-uWWFzwCC1RKPVYVBQ8-L4kCqCYsXoGtA8XBT7dmbWIC7FRzo8zgeJUw32uU/s2680/kick2sleeveflat.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2680" data-original-width="1896" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOdRlknGtF1SS5lqfRkJ1cAghTsRVSnlOUUL4vjUzePkHjd1uv3e4nLbg1Cjfk7y-dhfKpUrqLcFHqXn4huW1my4A5cw0xpmNl3pkte4oXE5m_w9_25KdxH2N7Kz-uDhT-uWWFzwCC1RKPVYVBQ8-L4kCqCYsXoGtA8XBT7dmbWIC7FRzo8zgeJUw32uU/s320/kick2sleeveflat.JPG" width="226" /></a></div><br /><br /></span><o:p></o:p></span><p></p>Mary Anne Ogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05708932333083656667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3467292679185113990.post-47552061082148497832023-09-05T12:18:00.002-04:002023-09-05T12:21:26.446-04:00still kickin'...<p><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Hey, I’m back! It’s cooled off. Fall is my
favourite time of year! Sweater weather is much more fun to me and I can get
back to knitting! I’m planning a trip out to Vancouver to visit with favourite
baby sister, Marnie, and I like to be bearing gifts! I’m taking my own advice
and re-knitting ‘Kickin’ Around’.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">A few years back, I was planning a
pullover for manfriend for Christmas – he actually requested it based on a
sweater he saw in a store window – you can read the long version going back to
October, 2019 - </span><a href="http://knitwords.blogspot.com/2019/10/male-order.html"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">http://knitwords.blogspot.com/2019/10/male-order.html</span></a> . <span face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt;">See where I sort of left it hanging and
then, finally finishing it up for a late Christmas present. </span><a href="http://knitwords.blogspot.com/2019/11/avoidance.html"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">http://knitwords.blogspot.com/2019/11/avoidance.html</span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Anyway, the long and short of it was that
I ordered some yarn just because it was tweedy and he liked the colour sample on the internet. When I received it, realized it
was a big mistake – yarn was way too fancy for manfriend so had put it away and
re-ordered. I did swatch it and lucky for me, blogged about it there so when I
came across the swatch the other day, I could read exactly what I did! I’m looking for
shortcuts here! And Sis won’t know the difference!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The yarn is <i>Providence</i> from <i>Berroco</i>,
65% merino wool, 20% baby alpaca, 15% silk – it really is a lovely yarn and I’d
like it for myself except the dark teal is not for me but it’s a good Marnie
colour.<br /> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpbGktjelm8JowBWuU1wTvMxgW6aFlp36dWxdaGHNLNS3XCas2x8ijhZfkBmjqEmgAy3XHyUnWhJ50zI4bXcRQCXg0TEnHdwEDnyTNZYQ23gTexQErFkf-anbvLQ2s8VYFU0VBLuVW6CQEerb2IoLW3s4lDUeUyKnCSWmVWn89Um8nxmhShGyK_K1Ixp0/s4592/kick2butterfly.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2680" data-original-width="4592" height="117" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpbGktjelm8JowBWuU1wTvMxgW6aFlp36dWxdaGHNLNS3XCas2x8ijhZfkBmjqEmgAy3XHyUnWhJ50zI4bXcRQCXg0TEnHdwEDnyTNZYQ23gTexQErFkf-anbvLQ2s8VYFU0VBLuVW6CQEerb2IoLW3s4lDUeUyKnCSWmVWn89Um8nxmhShGyK_K1Ixp0/w200-h117/kick2butterfly.JPG" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Starting with a sleeve, with good intentions,
I threw in a stitch pattern – going with ‘butterfly’ because it was a combo of
tuck and eyelets, seemed like it would be fairly quick to do and shows up on
the purl side which I always like on a tweed fabric. Got 40 rows done, decided
it was too difficult to see for making the eyelets on top of the tucked stitch -
all that effort was not going to show up in the dark colour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dropped it off the machine, rewound the yarn
and decided we could be twins – using the same windowpane as in the original! –
I’m leaving in 15 days, give me a break!</span><o:p></o:p><p></p>Mary Anne Ogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05708932333083656667noreply@blogger.com4