On the Knitting Needles July 13, 2012
Posted By drsao on July 13, 2012
Today the first clue was released for the Stephen West Mystery Shawl Knit-A-Long hosted on Ravelry.com. The knitters were chomping at the bit waiting for the clue to get posted online.
While waiting for Clue 1 I transformed my skeins of Madelinetosh Tosh Merino Light yarn into nice little balls! The colors are Hickory – the light yarn – and Bark – the darker yarn. I bought the yarn at EAT SLEEP KNIT.
http://www.eatsleepknit.com/
Waiting for Clue 1
CLUE 1 is here!
I sure have learned a lot today by “listening” to the GROUP CHAT on Ravelry. Until today I had no idea what an I-Cord was…..and I have now learned to make a rolled edge and use two colors of yarn by twisting the colors. I have learned the proper way (and another PROPER WAY – The German Method) of wrapping a stitch. THAT IS A LOT. Thank goodness there are YOU TUBE demos for EVERYTHING!!!
Despite all of this HELP I had to restart twice…….I was having trouble negotiating two tails of yarn – TWO LIVE TAILS and two SHORT BEGINNINGS OF YARN TAILS – plus 40 inch circular tubing on my needles. If I had a BETTER SENSE OF HUMOR I would have taken a picture of the tangled mess! 🙂
Getting Started – SECOND TRY
OK -so I finally got started FOR REAL and I even figured out how to pick up a wrapped stitch – but it took me all day to figure it out…….and the bottom line is that I have to RIP ALL OF THIS OUT and start over tomorrow. BUT at least I am learning new things!
It is growing…..or NOT
I actually thought about just keeping this much WITH THE ERRORS in it and when I wore it I could make sure that I MOVED AROUND A LOT so no one would notice….but ALAS, I know the MISTAKES are there……so – YES – I am going to start over. 🙂
This is what is on my KNITTING NEEDLES THIS WEEK!!!!! 🙂
You’re scaring me! I don’t know how to do any of that! I’m planning to start tomorrow (I had already looked at the spoiler photos) so I’d better watch some of those educational videos tonight! Yours is looking good. Yours definitely looks good from what I see! (But, you know who has half wrong cables in her project!). 🙂
Oh I didn’t start this KAL since I have 2 others going and I’m not getting much done on them. I can’t wait to see how this KAL turns out – so many people are doing it and he does such wonderful patterns. Hope you get lots of time to knit on this!