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worryingly jolly batman ([personal profile] labellementeuse) wrote2009-08-25 11:23 pm
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*TWITCH*

So I spent the better part of today working on adapting the gorgeous owls pattern for knitting in the round, in DK. This took some time but I feel pretty good about my fudged numbers and I'm squeezing my yarn and looking at the outfit I wore today and thinking about how much cuter it would have been with an owls sweater instead of the principals jumper that everyone on the planet owns and what a neat shade of green my yarn is and how much I can't wait can't WAIT to cast this thing on. And godDAMNit, I don't know where my 3.5mm needle tips are but I'm pretty sure they're in a box coming back from the UK and I must. cast. on. this. jumper. right. NOW.

and I'm pretty sure Nancy's isn't open for me to get a second set of 3.5s at 11:30 pm. Arrrrrrrrgh.

Off to work out my anger on the shawl I'm supposed to be knitting at the moment. I'm at that point that you get to in a triangle shawl where you've memorised the pattern but your rows are now long enough that each one takes forever, so progress is extremely slow. I just want to cast off already. :(
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[identity profile] labellementeuse.livejournal.com 2009-08-27 09:41 am (UTC)(link)
lace charts! I would recommend starting with a pattern that has both written and charted instructions. Read, and knit from, the written instructions for the first repeat, and then switch to the chart and keep looking back at the written if you need to. Yeah, it's just a skill, don't worry! (Plus, you don't HAVE to knit from charts, there's plenty of written-out lace out there.)

[identity profile] duskshadows.livejournal.com 2009-08-28 11:04 pm (UTC)(link)
tht would probably be a good idea, but i want *this* lace and i want it *now*! XD i'm (trying...) to do the Springtime Bandit shawlette-type-thing in fingering weight, i just seem to be stuck on a bit where no-one else has been stuck. XD someone's given me the stitch count for the row before, so i just have to tink back and see where i wnet wrong... i think i should probably start again on larger needles too, it's coming out a bit tight. *sigh* i'll get there! i want to be able to read from charts, it makes me feel like a smarty-pants XD
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