Sailing Away to Fake-It Island
Again, from far away the Fake Isle hat doesn't look so bad. The crown got so messed up I gave up and just knit solid and totally faked the decreases. So, yes, faking it until I make it.
I attempted to create a tableau with the pattern and my Knitting with Color book to distract from the disastrous knitting. Even the pretty bouquet adds to the photo, don't you think?
I've already started another hat but I can see that Row 4 has a mistake and the little alpacas that are part of the pattern have a white spot on their back legs. I'll post a pic as that one gets closer to the end.
I'm also toiling away on the Mara shawl for Patty. It's been going great, but now that I'm knitting the edging, I think I have two wrong sides. There are a lot of stitches on the needle as well. It's just a simple knit 2 purl 2 ribbing, but it's double the number of stitches, and you still must create the little yarnovers at each end and in the middle. I'm going to hold off taking any pictures until it's completed since right now it doesn't look like anything but a mound of stitches.
I have put my third rainbow rabbit to the side for a while, procrastinating attaching the head. I'm not sure how I feel about toymaking. Learning to knit while holding the yarn in each hand while reading a chart is what I want to focus on and master right now. I'll pick another easy hat for my next practice project.
Continental Divide
Knitting the "continental" way leaves me with a much looser gauge than my right-handed multiple-wrap method. I have found that I can get into a groove with it after a while. I tried purling the continental way and did it wrong. I only realized that I did it wrong when the next row had all the stitches on backward (left leg out in front). You still have to wrap the yarn when purling, so in either style, purling still sucks.
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