I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving! I totally enjoyed mine. Along with the turkey, The Man’s aunt (she’s Italian) made real lasagna which was absolutely the best lasagna I’ve ever tasted.
i got quite a bit done on the shawl while I was away. So much that I finished the center section, and have started on the edge.
I was having a bitch of time with it in the beginning. In the charts, there is a red /. It says K2tog; or SSK for directional decrease. I think I was reading too much into it at first because it confused the crap out of me. How can one / be both a K2tog and a SSK at the same time? After looking in the techniques section, I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s red because that red k2tog is where you would normally expect a ssk so pay attention and don’t do what you’d normally do. I could be way off base but it seems to be working so far. Hard to tell since I don’t have that much done. I also had issues with getting it attached so the right side of the edging matched the right side of the center. In a nutshell, I made everything more difficult than it needed to be. (Am I the only one with a dirty mind, or does that picture look naughty to you too?)
November 27th, 2006 at 9:18 am
You’re right, the picture looks a little… funny. I glanced at it before I read the text and thought “WTF??”
Some of Sharon Miller’s patterns will tell you to use k2tog for all decreases, because at fine gauges, it’s kinda hard to tell a k2tog from an ssk. But if you’re really concerned about having your decreases lean the “correct” way, you could use ssk (or I think Sharon uses k2tog through back loops.) All this is purely theoretical for me right now, since I’ve only read about these issues, and haven’t actually DONE them.
Jane has you start the edgings at slightly odd places, doesn’t she? I’m working on the Circular Cape (booooorrrrringgg right now), and you start the edging in the middle of the back of the neck. I guess that kinda makes sense, but in other shawls I’ve done the edging usually starts at a corner or something. I just find it kinda funky.
November 27th, 2006 at 8:38 pm
It looks a little like a dachshund coat, complete with tail. See how I took that from dirty to cutesy?
I’m not saying it’s *better*…
In their “gathering of lace” book, there are a few funky symbols like that. IF it’s an SSK, lean the GD slash the other way for a *left* increase, that’s all I ask. (I usually substitute my own left leaning decreases anyway) The one I’m doing from AGOL has the / in the last repeat with a note in the legend saying on the last repeat do a left leaning decrease. OK…….. in the last repeat portion of the friggin chart how about change the EFFIN symbol to a \ ????
Say what you mean. If there’s something weird, give it some brand new weird symbol so we all go ALERT ALERT!!! and we look to see what you mean, stupid publishers. Oooo I got myself all worked up there. I almost went upstairs to get the book and look it up so I could write an indignant letter. Thank dog I used your comment section to work out my psychological issues!
November 27th, 2006 at 10:03 pm
You have a lot done and it looks great! I’m glad you’re knitting it and not me. If I was me, it wouldn’t be a shawl - it would be something large like an afghan.
February 26th, 2008 at 11:54 am
I know I’m way late to the game, but I’m also twelve, so I can’t pass up a good snicker at a potentially dirty picture.