:knitting: Hello to all. I am hoping someone can explain to me what I am doing wrong/right/different. I am making a “scribble-scrabble” shawl using #19’s, a glitter ribbon and no. 1 lame, both exact to pattern directions, and it says gauge is not crucial for this project ( :woot: ) then:…CARRY YARN NOT IN USE LOOSELY UP THE SIDE OF YOUR WORK. ( ? ) Okay, so it is yarn A cast on 20 stitches KNit 2 rows. Do not cut A. With B, knit 2 rows, do not cut B. With A knot 2 rows and so on… I tied on my gold lame B yarn and started off, It is a very loose weave and the end loops are getting out of control as I cannot pull and keep proper tension. I don’t understand what " carry yarn" means. I am holding it as tightly as possible but need to allow those big needles to move, but the loops just keep getting bigger. The two yarns are definitely seperated in this pattern. Am I over thinking this one? Was I wrong to knot the yarn B lame on the end of the 2nd row of the glitter ribbon? What does “carry yarn” mean in this pattern’s case?
The pattern says that because if you keep cutting and knotting each new color every other 2 rows, you’re going to end up with a mess at one side. So instead, you’re going to “carry” each color. Because it’s only every other row, you’re just going to pick up the new color each time you start on the right side again. So when you do that, just don’t pull too tightly so that it starts scrunching up on that side, and also don’t let it be too loose so that you end up with loops on that side.
You’re not `carrying’ the yarn along the row as you knit, are you? That occurred to me as I was reading your post. When you get to the end of the row, drop one yarn and pick it up, then when you get back, drop that one and pick up the other one, but don’t pull it up tight or it will pucker your edge. You can kind of twist the two together at the edge to keep them from looping.
Ahahaha! Yes, it had crossed my mind they wanted me to pick up the thread/yarn and somehow wind it thru the whole mess…I think I am too literal but lord knows you have to be sometimes with knitting!! Yes, I am encountering the dreaded scrunching of one side and the sag of the other. Using these threads, or string really, makes it more like knitting a fishing net or string bag, it just goes all over but man it is looking cute if I can just keep that happy medium. I decided to use a paper clamp on the lame to hold it down and away, pinched onto the bodyof the piece somewhere close towards the needle tips rather than way back there. when I start up with the other yarn, it seems to stop some of the pulling. I think the loops also come from this thread pulling up through what I’ve already done, when I cinch up the first few stitches too tight…argh!!! So if I clamp it, it can’t run all the way back into kingdom come …Anyway…I think I’ve got it figured from your explanations…thank you!!!
Instead of winding the yarn around your ndl once on the carry, as you would for the K or P, wind twice and this’ll afford you add’l slack. Helps elim the pull.
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