Knitting and purling
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janestarzI've taken up my knitting again and I've toted along my latest project to several venues including birthdays. It's a bright (BRIGHT!) and glittery polyester yarn in my mother's taste. I started out working this yarn as a shawl/wrap and have since changed my mind three times on what it should become.
By now the project has graduated to "a scarf" and I'm a meter into the project.
Yesterday I was at my grandmother's ninetieth (90!) birthday party and I had brought along my knitting, in part because I was carpooling from Utrecht northwards and I didn't have to drive. My aunt, who is a knitting and crochet genius, could not resist fingering my project. She took one look at the stockinette stitch I'd been knitting for months on end and said the magic words:
"Your purl stitches are all wrong."
Years ago it turned out I had been inserting the right-hand needle into the back of my loops and therefor knitting my knit stitches "twisted". All my stitches had been tight on the needle and my knitting was too tight to begin with.
Now we figured out that I've been wrapping my yarn around the needle the wrong way when I'm purling. It only took my aunt a minute to see and I've been figuring out how to do it right ever since.
I'm now six rows on, knitting the right way and purling the right way, and although it's very subtle, I can tell the difference. Can you?
Actual yarn this bright or even brighter. Wear sunglasses.
I have three balls of this yarn and seeing how I've nearly finished with the first ball, I am considering starting over yet again. This is in part because of the twisted purl rows and in part because I really want to use up my yarn with this project. If I keep on knitting until I run out of yarn the way it's cast on now, the scarf will be three meters long. If I double the number of stitches on the needle, it'll be nice and wide and 1½ meters long.
Everyone that's not a knitter (knot a nitter) is questioning my sanity. "You've come this far! Why take it all off and start over?"
Because: It's good practice. It's better. You might see a difference between one end (where my purl row is twisted) and the other (where my purl row is normal). I'm not sure that blocking will make the edges lie smooth (my scarf is curling in on itself) and starting over means I can fix that. And most of all: because I want to.
Best part about this: whenever someone asks me what I'm knitting, my standard answer is: socks.
By now the project has graduated to "a scarf" and I'm a meter into the project.
Yesterday I was at my grandmother's ninetieth (90!) birthday party and I had brought along my knitting, in part because I was carpooling from Utrecht northwards and I didn't have to drive. My aunt, who is a knitting and crochet genius, could not resist fingering my project. She took one look at the stockinette stitch I'd been knitting for months on end and said the magic words:
"Your purl stitches are all wrong."
Years ago it turned out I had been inserting the right-hand needle into the back of my loops and therefor knitting my knit stitches "twisted". All my stitches had been tight on the needle and my knitting was too tight to begin with.
Now we figured out that I've been wrapping my yarn around the needle the wrong way when I'm purling. It only took my aunt a minute to see and I've been figuring out how to do it right ever since.
I'm now six rows on, knitting the right way and purling the right way, and although it's very subtle, I can tell the difference. Can you?
Actual yarn this bright or even brighter. Wear sunglasses.
I have three balls of this yarn and seeing how I've nearly finished with the first ball, I am considering starting over yet again. This is in part because of the twisted purl rows and in part because I really want to use up my yarn with this project. If I keep on knitting until I run out of yarn the way it's cast on now, the scarf will be three meters long. If I double the number of stitches on the needle, it'll be nice and wide and 1½ meters long.
Everyone that's not a knitter (knot a nitter) is questioning my sanity. "You've come this far! Why take it all off and start over?"
Because: It's good practice. It's better. You might see a difference between one end (where my purl row is twisted) and the other (where my purl row is normal). I'm not sure that blocking will make the edges lie smooth (my scarf is curling in on itself) and starting over means I can fix that. And most of all: because I want to.
Best part about this: whenever someone asks me what I'm knitting, my standard answer is: socks.
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Date: 2014-07-07 10:01 am (UTC)(PS: ik zou ook opnieuw begonnen zijn...)
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Date: 2014-07-07 10:19 am (UTC)"Waarom krult de sjaal" is een goeie vraag (http://www.goeievraag.nl/vraag/sport-spel-recreatie/hobbys/brei-sjaal-zijkanten-omkrullen.288187) maar gelukkig zijn er mensen op goeievraag.nl die dat weten. Ik heb geprobeerd of het werk om de eerste steek af te halen (averechts insteken en zonder te breien over te zetten naar de andere pen) maar het helpt niet (genoeg). Nu wilde ik gewoon 5 steken recht breien (ook op de averechtse pennen) aan beide zijkanten om het breiwerk te stabiliseren, maar misschien heeft
Ik wil nog eens heel graag een tweekleurige sjaal breien in de patentsteek. Lekker warm want lekker dik.
Een prima voorbeeld is dit filmpje (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=patentmuster+zweifarbig). Ik vond het alleen verschrikkelijk onmogelijk om een steekje op te pakken als ik hem heb laten vallen.
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Date: 2014-07-07 11:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-07-07 03:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-07-08 05:27 pm (UTC)En ja, ik zou 'm ook uithalen en opnieuw beginnen. Hoort een beetje bij breien denk ik.
Verder: LOL @ sokkenopmerking XD