Project Rockefeller: Clue 2
Jul. 10th, 2016 11:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
janestarzLife has been a bit busy so I haven't updated, but the knitting goes on. Next to finishing 2 pairs of socks, the Graduation Rockefeller also grew steadily. On Wednesday I started on Clue 2.
After the piano key wedges, you park your stitches on scrap yarn and start picking up new stitches around the curved bottom edge. I was in doubt how to do this. After all, this was only the second time ever that I've used an I-cord. The instructions for picking up the stitches weren't all that clear either.
After all, I know knitting (and thus: picking up and knitting stitches) happens from right to left. But it does matter wheter your needles are between you and your work, or whether your work is between you and your needles.
Now that I look back, I can understand it more clearly. Your work is always between you and your needles! It hangs down from the needles, so if you were to sit at a table, the fabric drapes between you and the needles. It pools in your lap, after all.
At the time, I didn't know this, and I started out like this:
I was very much in doubt. Did I pick up just one leg of the stitch, or the whole V? I experimented with both, but didn't like the way the I-cord unfolded and lay flat. The blue yarn was clearly visible between the first and second stitch of the I-cord, and I asked in the KAL thread if I was doing it right.
Turned out, I wasn't. Keep your work between you and the needles, right side up, and work from right to left (picture was taken from the other side for clarity):
And although you pick up stitches at exactly the same point in your knitting, it makes all the difference. The I-cord is still a little speed bump in the road that is your knitting, but it doesn't unfold anymore. The blue doesn't shine through either.
So that's a nice new trick I learned!
Yesterday we had time to sleep in, have a slow breakfast and do something fun. I knitted a lot on my Rockefeller, and this is where it stands this morning:
In this section there isn't as much white as in the first section, and the blue of the yarn reigns the fabric like a benevolent king. I love the blue Malabrigo, it's got subtle hue shifts, with teal and purple shining through the blue.
The white stripes in the blue fabric will get wider with each repeat. There will be four, but the fabric will get wider each time as well. It's now time for long stretches of stockinette, but I love it because my yarn is so soft and bouncy. I love it.
The combination of stockinette blue and garter stitch white works really well, it creates a subtle texture.
Still, I find that all this knitting on fine needles is boring my hands somewhat. I do the Rockefeller on 2.75 mm and the socks on 2.5, and it seems like I want a larger needle in my hands from time to time. Perhaps it's time to cast on another project...
After the piano key wedges, you park your stitches on scrap yarn and start picking up new stitches around the curved bottom edge. I was in doubt how to do this. After all, this was only the second time ever that I've used an I-cord. The instructions for picking up the stitches weren't all that clear either.
After all, I know knitting (and thus: picking up and knitting stitches) happens from right to left. But it does matter wheter your needles are between you and your work, or whether your work is between you and your needles.
Now that I look back, I can understand it more clearly. Your work is always between you and your needles! It hangs down from the needles, so if you were to sit at a table, the fabric drapes between you and the needles. It pools in your lap, after all.
At the time, I didn't know this, and I started out like this:
I was very much in doubt. Did I pick up just one leg of the stitch, or the whole V? I experimented with both, but didn't like the way the I-cord unfolded and lay flat. The blue yarn was clearly visible between the first and second stitch of the I-cord, and I asked in the KAL thread if I was doing it right.
Turned out, I wasn't. Keep your work between you and the needles, right side up, and work from right to left (picture was taken from the other side for clarity):
And although you pick up stitches at exactly the same point in your knitting, it makes all the difference. The I-cord is still a little speed bump in the road that is your knitting, but it doesn't unfold anymore. The blue doesn't shine through either.
So that's a nice new trick I learned!
Yesterday we had time to sleep in, have a slow breakfast and do something fun. I knitted a lot on my Rockefeller, and this is where it stands this morning:
In this section there isn't as much white as in the first section, and the blue of the yarn reigns the fabric like a benevolent king. I love the blue Malabrigo, it's got subtle hue shifts, with teal and purple shining through the blue.
The white stripes in the blue fabric will get wider with each repeat. There will be four, but the fabric will get wider each time as well. It's now time for long stretches of stockinette, but I love it because my yarn is so soft and bouncy. I love it.
The combination of stockinette blue and garter stitch white works really well, it creates a subtle texture.
Still, I find that all this knitting on fine needles is boring my hands somewhat. I do the Rockefeller on 2.75 mm and the socks on 2.5, and it seems like I want a larger needle in my hands from time to time. Perhaps it's time to cast on another project...
