yay knitaddict!!! i’m glad you got to start! it is totally fun, isn’t it?! Love it! I’m so glad I jumped on the bandwagon with you on this and can’t believe I’ve left this yarn sitting in my stash all this time (and I on the verge of breaking my own fingers to stop myself from ordering 100 balls of 50% off KidSilk to make more of these with. ;-))
you guys are all so sweet. the mistake really is there, but i’m totally leaving it. i highlighted the problem below to end the mystery. There’s an extra hole in that leaf, I am assuming from passing the wrong something over or something… I picked at it and I don’t think it will unravel, so that will be my “on purpose” mistake of the project. thanks everyone!!!
whatever booboo you made, i dont see it. i have been trying and trying to do this pattern and havent been able to get it. i think bc ive never done most of the stitches i might be doing one wrong OR i might not be knitting enough to let the pattern come through.
on your first section, did you see the pattern clearly or did you have to wait until second section?
:roflhard: I actually used that word on purpose to bring dirty images to mind. Dirty yarn images, that is. Everyone here calls pics of yarn “porn” so I figured “fondle” would fit right in. :roflhard:
I was so frustrated by this last night after ds went to bed. I swear I frogged it 3 times and it took forever to get past the first repeat. Then I realized the problem! (where’s the smilie with a light bulb over it’s head?) I kept knitting part of one row, and mixing it up with part of another row. So I put my pattern on a clipboard, folded a green piece of paper so it looked like a ruler and paper clipped it below the row I was working on. It’s a bit more work because I have to move it every 2nd row, but I am on the 3rd repeat now with no mistakes. :cheering:
I’m not Sean, but I don’t think it’s that difficult to work with at all. The hardest part, for me, is that I have to do a k3tog and the point on my needle isn’t sharp enough to get it through the loops. Other than that, it’s really no different than knitting with Cha-Cha or other fur yarn. Just less furry.
"Stonington wrote:
Sean, is the yarn difficult to knit? It is so fine.
I’m not Sean, but I don’t think it’s that difficult to work with at all. The hardest part, for me, is that I have to do a k3tog and the point on my needle isn’t sharp enough to get it through the loops. Other than that, it’s really no different than knitting with Cha-Cha or other fur yarn. Just less furry. "
[color=blue]Thanks! I have a similar yarn at home :?? can’t remember the name off the top of my head. I have hesitated using it because it is so fine and fluffy… but it felt soooo nice when I picked it up at the LYS I HAD to buy it! :flirt:
i know, it’s pretty funny, knitaddict wanted to share her yarn find and it’s almost a KAL now, i love it.
knitaddict pretty much answered that question for me. i have the very same difficulty with the k3tog because of my needle tip and will be ordering a set of the bryspun flexible needles to help with this. I actually switched back to my Addis because the bamboo were just too blunt. They are definitely slippery, but I’ve been careful and haven’t had too much trouble. The trouble with this yarn is tinking/frogging because of the mohair content. After switching to the Addis, I apparently dropped one fo the k3 stitches at the edge and I had to undo 2 rows, which went better than I anticipated, but I got stuck on the row I needed to fix for about 30 minutes because it took me until then to find that it was actually one of the K3 I had lost and not a YO somewhere and kept knitting and tinking and knitting and tinking and in the tinking, added a couple other stitches… I won’t even attempt to try to frog or tink the K3tog or psso things, I know I would goof that up terribly.
As for the pattern, I saw it after the first 10 rows pretty much, but it gets more clear as you continue.
When you’re working on a chart, put a post it right above the line on which you’re working. You don’t lose your place, and it allows you to refer to the row below to make sure you’re still on track.
I just read about another trick for knitting together multiple stitches. If you lay your working yarn over the tip of the left needle and put the stitches you need to work together over and off the tip, over that yarn, one at a time, it’s like knitting all of them together. When all are over, you transfer that loop over to the right needle. Basically you’re kind of knitting in reverse if that makes any sense. The goal of a stitch is to get the yarn through the stitches, in this case, the yarn ends up through the stitches but you put the stitches around the yarn rather than pull it through.
ingrid, this tip sounds awesome, but i don’t think i get it… well maybe i do. you mean lay across the left needle as if you were working continental kinda? and then you would pull each loop off, but over the yarn so that would leave the loop of the new stitch still on the left needle? i’m having a hard time picturing it. thanks!!!
It made sense to me because that’s how I correct stitches when I don’t have a crochet hook handy.
I just played with it some more and took a picture for what it’s worth. You lay the yarn over the left needle tip, then pick up the stitches one by one as if to knit and put them over the end. The only one that came out useable is where the yarn is over the needle. Once you get that, the rest is pretty obvious. If not, I’ll try to take more. Gotta run, now though.
I knit together the first three stitches, then brought the yarn up from the back over the needle.
Ohhhh! I get it, Ingrid!! That’s an excellent idea.
Quick question, though - how would you do that with a yo right before the k3tog? Because there’s a few places where you have to do yo, k3tog, yo in the Branching Out.
(On my 5th repeat now, btw, and it looks beautiful!)
I just tried it with my experiment yarn that was still sitting here. I brought the yarn up under and over the right needle and then laid it on the left tip. It was easy with the thick yarn. I’m not sure if the lace weight would be as cooperative, but worth a shot if knitting several together is ridiculous.
HEY! I am doing the Branching Out and there IS a KAL on here. Come on over there so I am not all alone!!!
And Sean, I have a much worse boo boo than yours (which was hard to spot BTW). But I decided I was too far along to frog it so it stays. Now I am using a life line though. I am just pulling it out and reinserting at the start of the repeat. It is worth the extra work. I had realized my mistake and tried to take out that row. Yeah, that was impossible and only made it worse. But it is for me and now it has character!
I’ll run over and see if I can find the post. I didn’t know there was a KAL.
I’m glad I’ve been using a lifeline! I was 5 rows into my 8th repeat and somehow ended up with an extra stitch. I frogged 3 rows and somehow gained 2 more. lol Finally I took a deep breath & pulled it off the needles and down to the lifeline. Saved me a TON of frustration.
ech, my branching out is no more (because I stopped using lifelines, btw) I was into the 5th repeat, everything looking gorgeous and I was off a stitch and I tinked and tinked and reknit and reknit, each time thinking I’d figured out the problem, and then things went awry and I tried to frog and poof gone. I actually think I have wasted too much yarn to have enough left to do the scarf now! I’m going to retry it in Alpaca Cloud for KP. I started it already, but I have to put it off for a bit since this was an unplanned project anyway. MEH!
Oh no! :pout: What a bummer! I did that after my 3rd repeat, but thankfully was able to frog it to just above my CO edge. That part I had to break off and toss. Now I’m using a lifeline faithfully every 10 rows. I’m almost done with my 10th repeat.
You were right, btw. It does look just like a cloud!!!
I just joined the KAL and there are some beautiful ones over there. I hope you & I both are able to add our pics to the group soon!
There’s an extra hole in that leaf, I am assuming from passing the wrong something over or something… I picked at it and I don’t think it will unravel, so that will be my “on purpose” mistake of the project. thanks everyone!!! 
Sean, is the yarn difficult to knit? It is so fine. :shock:
Dirty yarn images, that is. Everyone here calls pics of yarn “porn” so I figured “fondle” would fit right in. :roflhard: