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| Hi all!
I'm usually over on the Garden Junk forum, but I just started knitting a project and need some advice. My grandmother taught me basic knitting, many moons ago, but I have forgotten alot of what I knew back then. My first problem is that I have never really knit from a "pattern". I am making a scarf with 2 colors ( Blue and Off White) and the instructions say... With blue, cast on 39 sts. (Got that!)
Does this mean to just start knitting with the off white? Knit it together with the blue for this row? I have no idea how to join colors!! LOL I am confused because of the order of directions. Why would I knit the whole row with the off white AND THEN cut the blue? I have already read the pattern and I know I will have more questions, but this should get me started on the next 2 inches anyway!! haha. Thanks in advance, for any advice!!! |
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| Nottaclue, I think what they are doing is asking to do just as you think. Finish the blue row. Let the blue yarn drop. Begin knitting with the white & finish that row. Cut the blue yarn, and leave at least a 6" tail. By not cutting the blue yarn until you have finished a row with the whie, I think maybe the first stitch with the white will be easier to do, instead of cutting the blue and having the last blue stitch loosen as you try to start the white row. This is the first I have heard a pattern stated this way, but thinking about it, that is my opinion. Welcome back to the world of knitting! Tami...who was just asked to teach a friend of DD's to knit! |
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- Posted by nottaclue2 (My Page) on Wed, Nov 8, 06 at 22:31
| Thanks for the advice! That is what I did, but I tied a knot, or sort of a half slip-knot, with the white around the blue, just to keep it from loosening as I started the white. I can easily untie it, if it looks too bad when I go to weave in the ends. But after all that, I saw a mistake I had made when I switched over to the white PLUS I, somehow wound up with 4 extra stitches, so now I have to rip it all out and try again. I think I got the extras because I wasn't as careful as I thought I was being when switching back and forth with K1 P1 (Ribbing stitch?). I am supposed to be bringing the yarn between the needles when switching, right? I know... silly newbie questions!!! Thanx again!! |
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| nottaclue; This is a blue and off-white striped scarf right? To change the colours, just start knitting with the white yarn, INSTEAD of knitting with the blue yarn - the same as when you started your first row of knitting at the beginning. No "carrying" of the blue, or knitting with it. (Putting a slip knot is a good idea so the beginning stitch doesn't loosen up. At least until you get more experience with your tension.) Yes, K1 P1 is ribbing. And it is very easy to acquire extra stitches! Be sure to follow Tami's advice about leaving a 6" tail - of both colours. A "good" six inches. Sorry for writing so much. |
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