If, in the future, you decide to knit any pattern that has the word "fade" in it, just buy the kit from Kitterly You do not have the color skills that you think you do.
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| Free Your Fade by Andrea Mowry |
But yours?
Just buy the kit.
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Showing posts with label Kitterly. Show all posts
Sunday, August 26, 2018
Note to Self
If, in the future, you decide to knit any pattern that has the word "fade" in it, just buy the kit from Kitterly You do not have the color skills that you think you do.
But yours?
Just buy the kit.
Saturday, August 27, 2016
Lessons Learned
I hope.
I am currently working onthree, no, four projects at once. And I have messed up two---so far.
I am making my third Umaro, this time with a lavender Cascade Lana Grande, and so far, so good. No mistakes.
And I am working on the Shelby Stole, with a lovely 100% silk yarn. So far so good on that too.
AND I am working on the Purple and Pink Extra Long Cowl
in the same colors shown in the designer's photo. Yum. However, after I finished the first 8 rows of the pattern, it was only an inch wide which meant that the whole thing (24 rows) would only be 4 inches wide. Turns out that is how wide it is supposed to be, but according to Kitterly, I could just go ahead and use all of the yarn in each of the four skeins provided.(There are no knitting police.) So that is what I am doing, and this is it now that I am into my third skein/colorway:
I think it will be about 8 inches wide, and that is fine. However, and this is a BIG however, the 351 stitches on a circular needle are joined so that I am knitting in the round, and I thought that I had joined the cast on row so that there were no twists in it. But I just needed to count the stitches and in the process I noticed that it is twisted---three times! Yikes. I am not ripping out 351 stitches x 45 rows and starting over, so it will be a mobius, mobius, mobius cowl. Weird possibly, but I am hoping that the fact that it can be wound around my neck a couple of times, and the fact that it is very colorful, will be a distraction from the possible weirdness. It's a "design element" y'all, not a mistake.
Now the fourth project. I am going on vacation and I want to take a small project with me: hence, socks. I pulled out the socks that I have been ignoring for a month or so because I hate knitting on size 1 needles. I want to put them on my Knit Picks wooden needles rather than keep them on my Signature Needles, which I treasure and adore above all other needles. They are metal and really pointy and I think they could do some damage to someone if that's what I intended to do, which I don't, but the authorities might not believe me on that.
When I took a look at the sock in progress (Gale's Art Wonder Sock Yarn, graffiti and asphalt colorway), I noticed that because it's been rattling around in the project bag for a month, maybe longer, a lot of stitches had fallen off the needles. If there is anything less fun than retrieving dropped stitches, several rows down, on size one needles, I hope not to find out what it is.
Anyway, I have rescued the stitches and now I will put them on the wooden needles. TSA or its equivalent in the UK can have my Signature Needles when they pry them from my cold, dead hands. Which they won't be able to do because I am leaving them behind. sniff...
I am currently working on
I am making my third Umaro, this time with a lavender Cascade Lana Grande, and so far, so good. No mistakes.
And I am working on the Shelby Stole, with a lovely 100% silk yarn. So far so good on that too.
AND I am working on the Purple and Pink Extra Long Cowl
in the same colors shown in the designer's photo. Yum. However, after I finished the first 8 rows of the pattern, it was only an inch wide which meant that the whole thing (24 rows) would only be 4 inches wide. Turns out that is how wide it is supposed to be, but according to Kitterly, I could just go ahead and use all of the yarn in each of the four skeins provided.(There are no knitting police.) So that is what I am doing, and this is it now that I am into my third skein/colorway:
I think it will be about 8 inches wide, and that is fine. However, and this is a BIG however, the 351 stitches on a circular needle are joined so that I am knitting in the round, and I thought that I had joined the cast on row so that there were no twists in it. But I just needed to count the stitches and in the process I noticed that it is twisted---three times! Yikes. I am not ripping out 351 stitches x 45 rows and starting over, so it will be a mobius, mobius, mobius cowl. Weird possibly, but I am hoping that the fact that it can be wound around my neck a couple of times, and the fact that it is very colorful, will be a distraction from the possible weirdness. It's a "design element" y'all, not a mistake.
Now the fourth project. I am going on vacation and I want to take a small project with me: hence, socks. I pulled out the socks that I have been ignoring for a month or so because I hate knitting on size 1 needles. I want to put them on my Knit Picks wooden needles rather than keep them on my Signature Needles, which I treasure and adore above all other needles. They are metal and really pointy and I think they could do some damage to someone if that's what I intended to do, which I don't, but the authorities might not believe me on that.
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| See my beautiful, precious, pointy, potentially dangerous needles! |
When I took a look at the sock in progress (Gale's Art Wonder Sock Yarn, graffiti and asphalt colorway), I noticed that because it's been rattling around in the project bag for a month, maybe longer, a lot of stitches had fallen off the needles. If there is anything less fun than retrieving dropped stitches, several rows down, on size one needles, I hope not to find out what it is.
Anyway, I have rescued the stitches and now I will put them on the wooden needles. TSA or its equivalent in the UK can have my Signature Needles when they pry them from my cold, dead hands. Which they won't be able to do because I am leaving them behind. sniff...
Wednesday, August 10, 2016
New Project
I am working on this Purple and Pink Extra Long Cowl:
using the Koigu colors in the photo, so it will be exactly like the one in the photo.
Only it's not.
I finished the first color section, which is all of 7 rows, and this is how wide it is, about an inch.
What the #$%^
I re-read the instructions. The cowl is 30 rows wide??? That means slightly over 4 inches???
(7+8+8+7=30 Right???)
I wrote an e-mail to Kitterly who sold the kit and said "What the #$%^?
They wrote back saying that they hadn't written the pattern and they hadn't taken the photo and it looks to them like the cowl IS only about 4 inches wide.
So there we go. It is an extremely narrow but long cowl. But I, dear readers, am throwing caution to the wind and knitting as many rows of each of the four colors and I choose, and the pattern be damned!
It will be a thing of beauty, but it will not look like the picture.
There are no knitting police. I'm taking the Yarn Harlot at her word on this.
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