I agree, GrumpyGramma! If I’m tired, or think I might make a mistake, then I’m reasonably happy to put in a lifeline in the previous row, so if a cable bit runs away from me then at least it’ll get caught up on the lifeline. And it is SO much nicer not to use a cable needle - quicker and altogether less fiddlesome. Stephen West has a very cheerful (as usual!) how-to video on YouTube; he’s so good at not making a big deal out of something that other people might find tricky - you get encouraged into think it’s really easy and then somehow it is.
Whatcha' Knitting? September, 2024
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Here’s a link to the Stephen West tutorial, in case anyone is interested:
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Very good video. Thanks. For me the best part was seeing that he had some enlarged stitches. Makes me feel better about my blanket. I have 20 cable crossings every row that has crossings. I didn’t realize how boring cables can be. lol
ETA I’m clumsy so I can’t say it’s really easy but it’s not difficult. Having one less tool to deal with is a godsend.
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Totally agree re one less tool! And that cabling can be pretty boring - I know there are many who absolutely love this process, and I must say I love it a whole lot more now I’ve learned the no-cable-needle thing. 20 crossings though does sound a lot!! I’ve got ten on the most complicated rows but there are only five rows with cables in each 20 row repeat, so it’s not too awful. You have to be sure you like the pattern, though, don’t you, before committing - well, I suppose that is always the case, cables or no cables…there’s usually something tricky to navigate.
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Sticky yarn is a help with cabling without the cable needle too. I agree that a 6 stitch cable is my limit too.
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Each 40 row repeat in my pattern - I’m doing 10 for the width - has 6 cable crossings and 24 cdd’s. I think 10 repeats will just about be long enough but I might need 11. I did unvent an easier for me way of doing the cdd so that helps. I sl 2 tog, sl1, k3tog tbl and it matches the usual way. Love is a powerful motivator. My granddaughter is engaged and they’re considering a date to get married. Most rows I can watch something on the screen and knit but I do a lot of counting. I just started the 8th rpt. I got the pattern when it was free for a limited time.
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Magnificent!
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Yes, GrumpyGramma, love definitely motivates!! I wish I knitted faster than I do, there are so many people to whom I’d love to give things, and a stash to rely on! That pattern looks indeed like a labour of love - gorgeous.
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Here’s the Anne Hanson pattern I’m doing:
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I made a swatch that looks like a tiny sleeve (legwarmer for swan?).
The lighter colour went through several changes. High white – yuck. Don’t know what I was thinking. Darkish beige – better but too close in value to the green. Lightish beige – better again, but too grey. And finally, this colour, called peach, but looks like a pinky beige most of the time. Or a goldy pink.
Is that what peach usually is? It’s nice, anyway.
None of these are colours I would usually go for, but I now seem to be about to knit myself a vaguely 1930s underneath half of a twinset in them!
Yarn is Lana Grossa Cotone, mercerised sport-weight cotton, very similar to Catania Cotton. It seems good so far.
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Bah, I have lost my glasses! They are not real prescription glasses, just magnifying ones from the chemist, but they are so helpful for seeing sock toes and mending jumpers, which I need to do a bunch of.
Just the other week, I thought “Ha ha, soon I’m going to be like all those people who lose their glasses”. Well now I am and it is not amusing!
Where do they usually turn up, apart from the top of the head?
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In the sofa, at the kitchen table, fallen into a knitting basket? So annoying yet familiar.
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I like the color combo. I’d never think to put these colors together together like that but it worked up beautifully. This will be a stunning top.
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Very close – I found them under the kitchen table!
I sometimes sit in the corner of the kitchen on a bean bag because it is cosy in there, and I had put my knitting, a book and my glasses down next to me on the floor, which happened to be under the table.
Luckily no-one stood on them. I need to get myself a knitting basket and keep everything in there.
I would save up for one of these if I was in the US:
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I lost one of the magnets that came with my chart holder. I figured it would eventually reappear but thought it might have gotten into my chair and found the steel frame. When I did see it again I had to laugh and can’t figure out how it got stuck on a pair of scissors in a cup that holds things I want to keep handy. IMO stuff just hides because it can. My MIL wore her reading glasses on a chain around her neck. My glasses live on my face and when I do put them down I try to leave them in the same place. I try. Scatterbrained me doesn’t always do it.
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Shameful, kushami! Glasses rule, “on your face or in the case”.
Glad you found them intact.
I like that basket. I have a not particularly nice looking but useful, collapsible, fabric basket which pops open and is handy to dump a knitting project in, then it collapses flat so I can be properly tidy and put everything away in my chest of drawers. I tend to use it when there are lots of different balls/colours needed at once.
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I don’t think the colours are showing correctly on my tablet, the peach doesn’t look peach to me but it does look nice and I especially like it with the green.
Great looking stitch pattern.
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If I thought a chain around my neck would help it would have to be big enough to accommodate car fobs, house keys, cell phone, an array of knitting needles, stitch markers, scissors, pens, memo pads, password lists….
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with you, not at you.
… remotes, potholders, kitchen towels, socks, shoes …
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Oh dear, I didn’t know that rule.
Sounds like a good excuse to make myself a nice glasses case!
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