…that it’s muscle weight, Steph, or you’ll go nuts when you hop on the scale in the morning.
I think I have come to the conclusion that the shawl is beyond my knitting speed, and I am considering just making my dear friend a pair of very comfy, lacy socks. I am also fairly positive that I’m going to buy some steel #2 needles, because the bamboo ones seem hellbent on snapping. Not good.
I have found that if the pattern is in sets of eight, then putting groups of those sets on the needles (16 stitches, 16 stitches, 24 stitches) helps me a great deal and keeps me from messing up too much.
The writing diary is getting regular updates once more. There’s also a Livejournal syndication for it, should you be so inclined.
Free pizza lunch day! Yay!
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When I do that with anything in the round, I end up getting a “ladder” between the stitches where the needles break. In order to prevent the laddering, I always knit one stitch off the next needle when I get to the end of the current needle.
Then, of course, I have to count a lot more when I’m doing, for example, an 8-stitch pattern. My solution to that was plain brass ring stitch markers. In an 8-stitch pattern, I put a stitch marker every 8 stitches. No counting. Then I use a stitch marker with a bead on it to mark the beginning of the round, so I can differentiate that marker from the ones marking the pattern breaks.
Did that make sense? Just a little tip I picked up. Hopefully it’s helpful.
I get the markers with a bead on them here:
http://www.etsy.com/view_transaction.php?transaction_id=5304789
I like them because they don’t dangle and get in the way.
This is a better link, to the shop’s front page:
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5041973
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