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May 16, 2006
WIP - Print o'the wave stole
As you dear reader might remember, I started Eunny's Print o'the wave stole as my Knitting Olympic project. Failing dismally to finish in time, my pathetic effort was forcibly confined to The Naughty Corner, where it has festered until the weekend just gone. My compadre Scumkitten has started this lovely lacey stole, and we thought we might knit it together. I was a bit dissatisfied with my tension, and having completed 11 repeats of the pattern, I frogged the lot, and started again, on a larger needle. So now I am working on 4mm, but otherwise everything is exactly the same. I will let my knittivist mate tell you what she is knitting hers in and we will check in from time to time to report on progress.
Posted by glittrgirl at May 16, 2006 10:22 PM
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I'm ashamed to admit that it all got frogged tonight because I made a mistake that I just couldn't find. This is just not a pattern to do when you are tired. Don't worry, I'm not defeated, I'll start again- on the same size needles as Glittr, I think...
Posted by: Skitten at May 16, 2006 11:24 PM
I frogged loads when I started...... That's how it took me so long and why it was not completed according to KNitting Olympic rules.....
Posted by: glittrgirl at May 16, 2006 11:36 PM
I think I'm going to get some posh wooden needles to do it on- the Denises are nice, but the stitches are hard to push over the joints...
Posted by: Skitten at May 17, 2006 09:23 AM
Don't forget you need a circ for the eyelet border, but you only need it for about four rows, the rest of the time you can do the whole thing on straights.
Posted by: glittrgirl at May 17, 2006 09:53 AM
I have been spending more time frogging than knitting for the past year. I am being forced to consider the possibility that despite 15 years of practice, I might actually be a Lousy Knitter. But don't tell anyone.
I swear this comment wasn't meant to be a commercial announcement, but feel oddly compelled to point out that it is possible to get posh wooden circular needles, too... good long ones winging their way to Purlescence v shortly.
Posted by: Robynn at May 18, 2006 12:52 PM
Oh thanks for telling us Robynn!!!
Posted by: glittrgirl at May 18, 2006 03:55 PM
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