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knitting has lots of "help, I can't figure out this pattern" posts, which are exercises in careful reading and explaining of trouble. For instance, this one is discussing a pattern found here and the knitter's confusion-- her wrist measures 6.5 inches, why doesn't the pattern for that size and the intended gauge produce something that fits her hand? (my suggested answer: the measurement given is for the palm of the hand, not the wrist.)
The fun-- and horrible-- thing about knitting patterns is that they hardly ever spell out everything. A friend of mine once commented when I gave him directions that he'd never had directions my way before-- I tend to include things like "you'll see A, then B, turn at C-- if you see D, you've gone too far." Knitting patterns rarely have a "if this doesn't look right, you did too much" line.
Maybe I need to go find myself some knitting theory books-- while I'm getting better at figuring out what I want to do, I don't know enough yet to decide between two ways of doing something. Should I decrease with K2tog or SSK? Should I cast on by knitting or with the long-tail method?
I'm working on a striped, cool-tone sweater vest(two blues, one aqua, two greens, and possibly a brown or red narrow stripe) and have actually gotten to the point where I couldn't fix a situation and had to rip back. Maybe more practice will fix this, but I also need to figure out WHY things work and don't work...
Quote of the day: "I couldn't have hated her more if she were made of low-fat mayonnaise."
Another quote, from here: "...and I made mistake number eight when I stopped myself from taking the whole thing outside, hurling it into the middle of the road and then laughing maniacally while cars ran it over again and again and again. I went to bed instead."
knitting has lots of "help, I can't figure out this pattern" posts, which are exercises in careful reading and explaining of trouble. For instance, this one is discussing a pattern found here and the knitter's confusion-- her wrist measures 6.5 inches, why doesn't the pattern for that size and the intended gauge produce something that fits her hand? (my suggested answer: the measurement given is for the palm of the hand, not the wrist.)The fun-- and horrible-- thing about knitting patterns is that they hardly ever spell out everything. A friend of mine once commented when I gave him directions that he'd never had directions my way before-- I tend to include things like "you'll see A, then B, turn at C-- if you see D, you've gone too far." Knitting patterns rarely have a "if this doesn't look right, you did too much" line.
Maybe I need to go find myself some knitting theory books-- while I'm getting better at figuring out what I want to do, I don't know enough yet to decide between two ways of doing something. Should I decrease with K2tog or SSK? Should I cast on by knitting or with the long-tail method?
I'm working on a striped, cool-tone sweater vest(two blues, one aqua, two greens, and possibly a brown or red narrow stripe) and have actually gotten to the point where I couldn't fix a situation and had to rip back. Maybe more practice will fix this, but I also need to figure out WHY things work and don't work...
Quote of the day: "I couldn't have hated her more if she were made of low-fat mayonnaise."
Another quote, from here: "...and I made mistake number eight when I stopped myself from taking the whole thing outside, hurling it into the middle of the road and then laughing maniacally while cars ran it over again and again and again. I went to bed instead."
