sometimes knitting is like trying to learn the guitar or another musical instrument....
or like anything else one starts out trying to do for that matter...
dropped stitches, dropped notes, dropped goals....
this one was supposed to be a kind of fancy shawl with a neck BUT note to self: tricky to undo any kind of twisted cable and get all the stitches back on the needles neatly.
Hours went by... midnight struck... still messed up. Each row unravelled just a bit worse. Sometimes the universe is trying to tell us something. Sometimes it is not entirely clear to us... confusing instead.
Why do these things happen?
Why does it seem jerks run the world?
Why do disasters happen?
Why do innocent people suffer?
f-bomb etc etc....
Grappling with these questions and many more like them is a big part of the reason I took to knitting...
and then all the dropped stitches like notes falling away into a black hole...
grey scarf. Grey cowl. Yeah, that's it, a cozy warm cowl. I mean after all, who can have too many cowls?
Grey cowl: closet staple for the north. Matches the road grime covering the ice.
It is sunny today and warm. I am wearing the cowl.
And for now, that is pretty much all I can explain except of course the basic knitting pattern...
F-Bomb Dropped Note Cozy Cowl
Cascade 100 per cent Peruvian highland wool 250 g/ 437 m.
(this is quite a bulky wool)
8 mm - 9 mm needles (or bigger if wanted)
Cast on enough stitches for a thick scarf (around 50)....
i did ribbing (2 knit x2 purl) with twisted cable (TC)
TC: for each 2 knit stitches of the ribbing design, use a cable needle each 4th row, put the 2 stitches to knit onto it, twist infront of the work, then knit off the cable needle.
note: because you are knitting back and forth each 2nd row knit will of course be purl as you will be working the back of the design each 2nd row....)
When long enough (maybe around 40 inches give or take....) cast off.
or like anything else one starts out trying to do for that matter...
dropped stitches, dropped notes, dropped goals....
this one was supposed to be a kind of fancy shawl with a neck BUT note to self: tricky to undo any kind of twisted cable and get all the stitches back on the needles neatly.
Hours went by... midnight struck... still messed up. Each row unravelled just a bit worse. Sometimes the universe is trying to tell us something. Sometimes it is not entirely clear to us... confusing instead.
Why do these things happen?
Why does it seem jerks run the world?
Why do disasters happen?
Why do innocent people suffer?
f-bomb etc etc....
Grappling with these questions and many more like them is a big part of the reason I took to knitting...
and then all the dropped stitches like notes falling away into a black hole...
grey scarf. Grey cowl. Yeah, that's it, a cozy warm cowl. I mean after all, who can have too many cowls?
Grey cowl: closet staple for the north. Matches the road grime covering the ice.
It is sunny today and warm. I am wearing the cowl.
And for now, that is pretty much all I can explain except of course the basic knitting pattern...
F-Bomb Dropped Note Cozy Cowl
Cascade 100 per cent Peruvian highland wool 250 g/ 437 m.
(this is quite a bulky wool)
8 mm - 9 mm needles (or bigger if wanted)
Cast on enough stitches for a thick scarf (around 50)....
i did ribbing (2 knit x2 purl) with twisted cable (TC)
TC: for each 2 knit stitches of the ribbing design, use a cable needle each 4th row, put the 2 stitches to knit onto it, twist infront of the work, then knit off the cable needle.
note: because you are knitting back and forth each 2nd row knit will of course be purl as you will be working the back of the design each 2nd row....)
When long enough (maybe around 40 inches give or take....) cast off.
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