Saw my knitting group thursday night after a 2-month absence and found myself thinking knitting all weekend. I came up with a few ideas to use up yarn i bought back in the spring when a friend was closing up her spinning business, so tonight i decided to start something1.
I have no earthly idea why i do this to myself. I almost always have to cast on 2x. Tonight i thought i was doing pretty well after the 2nd cast-on, except then i discovered i’d picked up a stitch somewhere. I’m lousy at finding my errors and the project is just some fingerless mitts, so i frogged back to the beginning. Doing better this 3rd time thru’! Except now i need to figure out how to CO1 over the gap of the thumb.
At least i got past the M1L, M1R, and M1 problems. Tho’ it took 2 books and KnittingHelp.com.
- No, i don’t want to talk about the Clapotis that i still haven’t finished from the Year of Finishing. [↩]
You have probably already solved this issue, but I remember this link being helpful.
http://www.knittinghelp.com/forum/showthread.php?t=44457
A bit of a leap of faith to convince myself it works, but, hey ho!
Alas, no, i actually found that quite baffling when i looked at it last night. What ultimately helped me was Maggie Righetti’s explanation in “Knitting in Plain English”. I need a lot of hand-holding when i’m knitting. >_<
And now i’ve gone and made this mitt too long, because i thought i’d be clever and add 2 rows. Now to rip back, YAY.