Mystery Shawl - Clue #6
Well, I finished the first 33 regular rows of the clue. You then had to cast on 24 more stitches, and she recommended doing knitted-cast-on, so I had to look that up. I am now into the edging. It's sort of like you're knitting at a 90 degree angle from the rest of the work, and marry up the even rows with the new work by knitting two together on the wrong-side rows.
You repeat it 7 times -- it'll form 7 "points". Most odd rows (pattern rows) you're either progressively increasing, or progressively decreasing, near the left-hand side. (The original knitting marries into the right side). The first iteration was slow until I neared the end of the pattern. Before going to bed, I was able to complete just a little more than half of a second iteration of the pattern.
Five-and-a-half iterations to go, and I'll be done side one. Then I have to pray that I don't have trouble picking up the stitches from the provisional cast on -- and that I pick them up on the correct side of the work!
2 comments:
It sounds like things are getting even more complicated! Do you think you should finish the other half before completing the edging? Will there be a problem with working the edging at the middle part?
It's harder to describe than to do. Once you get going, it's pretty easy. She recommends using stitch markers -- but I prefer counting, and every 14 rows, I make sure that I have the correct number of "original" stitches left to "work off".
I'm 3/7 done the edging as of Tuesday night -- 4/7 to go!
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