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| Blocking with pins! Like a proper swatch. |
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| Dried swatch. |
Good news! My stitches per inch is as the pattern calls for.
Bad news! Looking at my swatch it looks like my knitting is twisted a bit (or maybe my purling is?) Instead of the "V's" lining up next to each other, on every other row the row is very short and one side of the V is tucked under the other side.
I think that it might make sense for me to wait to cast on until I get some input on this. Though usually I'm all "this seems close enough let's go!", I sort of what to do this -right- so that I wear it when I'm finished.
Thoughts?
So, I just found this page: http://knitwhits.wordpress.com/2006/09/28/knitting-tip-2-twisted-stitches/ and I think it's a great explanation of what my problem *might* be. I think that I'll do a practice block in a different yarn tonight and see if I can work out which way to wrap my yarn.
ReplyDeleteI think that I was wrapping the purls correctly and the knits wrong, so when I was knitting into the back of the stitch it meant that my stitches were *not* twisted. Now that I'm knitting into the front (like I'm supposed to) I'll have to reverse the wrap direction. Phew.
That sounds right to me. I've actually seen some interesting patterns/textures made by purposely mixing twisted and regular stitches in certain ways! -Amy
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