Monday, May 11, 2009

Seamless...Maybe for Others

I am nearly done with my Seamless Hybrid and per usual, I have difficulties reading EZ patterns. She is so vague about things that I inevitably do something wrong that requires me to undo about 6 hours of work. My foible this time? The pattern tells you to create a saddly on each shoulder, knitting 44 rows for each. I thought it interesting at the time that this wasn't a percent or ratio as most of the other parts of the pattern are. It seemed like too many rows but I went with it. Unfortunately this meant that the two saddles met without room for the neck. So I undid all of my work back to the halfway point of the first saddle. I'm basically eyeballing it and making it up at this point. No one seems to have made a note about this on ravelry so I'm pretty sure I'm interpreting something wrong if everyone else has gotten it right. I'm putting it on thread tonight before I attempt a neck because I can not bear another frogging session (that's knitting lingo for unraveling all your hard work with tears in your eyes). I'll post a pic of the finished product.

I think I am going to attempt a fair isle sweater soon. It would be a great project to use up lots of scrap yarn that I have. I think a completely fair isled sweater is a little dizzying but I might just go for it and wear it around the house. I guess I could also do one with a fair isle yoke...I got an ancient book from the library about fair isle knitting. It has some sweater patterns and some fair isle patterns, I can use it in conjunction with Color Knitting Techniques to comes up with some good color choices. It would be so gratifying to use up all those random yarn dregs!

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