woe! texted a casual acquaintance "I've been considering getting into knotting"
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woe! texted a casual acquaintance "I've been considering getting into knotting"
Why?
KNITTING TYPO
Katharina Knit a Rad Roswell Hat! https://wp.me/pjlln-4Vx
ALIEN HAAAAAT!
SQUIDHAT III
Up to 8 legs... they look just this side of nothing alike. Decided that 2 double crochets per chain is preferable for this project. Three is overkill, but just one doesn’t provide adequate consistency of curve. I’m thinking something more like two double every X chains is actually the ideal, but it’s going to take a lot of trial and error to get there. Now for the body. Anyone know of a pantheon that includes a deity of fiber?
SQUIDHAT II
Hi future self, I screwed up. I SORTA followed that video, except for the whole “three double crochets per chain” part. I only did one. Hopefully you’ll be able to see the difference and it will be obvious, but, y’know, if you’re better at crochet and following the instructions I left to avoid confusion, it’s not gonna look the same. Still makes a serviceable curlicue though. 2/8.
SQUIDHAT!
So after a lot of swearing, frogging, literal knot tying, and screaming that crochet is STILL some kind of black magic, I succeeded in making one of those cute little curlicue things that are apparently all over pinterest. I wouldn’t know; I mostly go there for hairstyle how-tos. But since Rav doesn’t appear to have a simple note-taking function for things that aren’t truly active projects, I’m making notes here (because this tumblr is synced to my Rav) as to what I’m doing with this project in case I put it down for half of forever, as I often do.
Because this is not some tiny octopode (and yes, I realise I’m crossing my cephalopods, but SQUIDHAT is really fun to say), I went with a 53 chain, and then... double crocheted, per this video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhRKovSETKE&t=2s I’m still pretty confused about terms and shit, which is a large part of why I’m including the video. I... hooked? a 53 chain, then started doin the thing in the 4th stitch from the end, as instructed, and I have a cute curly limb to show for it. Trying to decide if I want to do 8 more of those, or if I want to try to tackle the magic circle first. Should probably get the curlicues under control. Also debating whether to keep rolling with my green scrap yarn (when I also still have the better part of an entire skein of it and I’m not sure I really want a green octopus) or if I want to go over to the purple I’d been planning to use from the beginning. Should probably make both in case I really DO dye my hair purple. A purple octopus on purple hair just wouldn’t do. People would assume it was a malformed cuttlefish!
Irish Hiking Scarf Wrist Warmers... the saga continues
So I’m finding that as I progress through this project, it’s finally becoming simple and uneventful. I’m full on enjoying it now, and actually managed to repair the one time I still incorporated the accidental yarn over (thanks again, @tunditur-unda!). However, as I continue, it occurs to me that this pattern probably would’ve been well served, in its armwarmer form, anyway, by beginning with the ribbing that it’s supposed to end with. I think the symmetry would be really appealing. Alas, live and learn!
Irish Hiking Armwamers... Day I-III
This past weekend was the Ragnesfolke Midwinter, AKA Penn Ice, AKA Pei and Greg’s January party. Having been encouraged previously not to leave my fiber projects home, I packed some stuff for fidgeting. I deliberately did not pack K’s blanket because I feared what would happen to the squares if I happened to think it was a good idea to knit intoxicated (I never did, but given how much trouble I have typing with a light buzz, it probably would’ve proven messy). Besides the blanket, the closest thing I have to an active project is this one, which I’d frogged, YET AGAIN, and allowed to just sit. I was quite done. So I packed this project, along with a skein of white yarn and my crochet hooks. Pei crochets, and there are plenty of other folk of varying fiber practices, so I was sure I could either get someone’s help with this or learn to crochet.
Sometime Saturday afternoon/evening, while Liz was spinning up some product for Birka, I broke this out, cast on, and knit the first 7 rows. When @tunditur-unda was done playing (or peeking in on, I forget) a game in the dining room, she came back to watch me attempt this row. Literally the moment I attempted to C6F, she stopped me, seeing the problem immediately. I was yarning over when I tried to cable. Not 100% of the time, which is why the last attempt only yielded ONE extra stitch, but I was using a technique by accident that I don’t know how to do on purpose. It’s sad to think that such a simple thing has kept me from making fancier projects all this time, but no more! It’ll also help when I get to the blanket square with the cable in it.
Irish Hiking Armwarmers... Day II
Day I of the project was a total bust. I lost count of my rows somewhere (being unaccustomed to actually USING my row counter, it’s not super helpful yet), frogged a row and tried to pick up where I should’ve been, only to find that I probably HADN’T lost track of the row, I only THOUGHT I did... So I wound up frogging the whole thing to be sure. It was pretty late when I started, so I turned in and decided I’d start over today.
Day II was originally off to a better start. I was really conscious of keeping track of what row I was on and being sure to update my row counter as necessary. On finishing row 7, I stuck a stitch marker in the project in case I needed to frog the cable row with the idea that it would save me from frogging too much (more on why this didn’t work in a moment). I managed the cable row without too much issue, though I have a newfound appreciation for my one-time boss’s observation that I work really tight; my natural tension is REALLY poorly suited to cabling. But I managed anyway. Again, on finishing the cable row, I set a stitch marker in case I needed to frog, being excessively proud of myself for successfully finishing the cable row, and not remembering that THAT was not what I botched that first time when I threw the project so hard that the needles popped out of it.
(As an aside, my first attempt at cabling was the Irish Hiking Scarf from which this project is derived. When I say I threw it, I’m not speaking figuratively. I was sitting on the couch in my apartment, when I realised I’d botched... something, I’m STILL not sure what, I was so frustrated with other things in my life, and had been knitting to cope with that, that I threw the project, needles still mid-row, across the room. It sailed through the open doorway, hit the side of my futon bed, and ejected both needles from the project, where they clattered loudly to the hardwoods. The fact that I’m even cabling again at all is a big step for me)
What had caused that hissy fit, or, well, the last straw, I should say, was that, after my cable row, I had an additional stitch I couldn’t account for. I’m not sure how it happened, but I did it again this time.
Oh-ho, I thought to myself, This time I am prepared! But alas, I did not think through my brilliant plan adequately. Frogging the project to the desired point, but not beyond, went just as planned. The trouble was that as I looked to thread the needle back through the preserved stitches, I had no idea how to reconcile my pattern with which way those stitches should’ve faced on the needle. So I’m back to square one again.
Upsides, although the yarn is coarse, I’m loving the colour, and although I still clearly did SOMETHING wrong, I seem only to have done it once, out of the three times I shifted stitches to the cable needle, so perhaps it’s not SO bad?