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janestarzLast week I wrote about picking up a ton of stitches and in the weekend that followed I tackled the first few rows. It did not go as smoothly as I had hoped.
At first I picked up the 360+ stitches without a problem, fudging the picking up as much as I dared to get the right number of stitches left and right from the centre-back stripe. It went well enough, but as I started knitting the first row I got confused. The pattern just showed a diagram of the two sleeves with the rectangle over the back, with four arrows one, two, three and four of how to pick up stitches and where. During the first round after picking up all these stitches I was so confused I thought the diagram was upside down, the collar was on part 4, and frogged it all to the point of picking up stitches again.
Only then did I take a good look at the other people who knitted the Bagtanker Cardigan. Ravelry is tremendously helpful in listing these things, and thanks to the clear photographs of other people I finally figured out what I was supposed to do. It would have been so much easier if the pattern included some more detailed photographs or even a good sketch of what you're supposed to do. I guess Geilsk patterns are pretty old-school in that regard.
But I figured it out, thanks to printing other Raveler's detail photographs and connecting the colour-coded markers to the diagonal stripes in their cardigans. And here's the poorly-lit obligatory bathroom selfie at the end of the weekend, showing a bit of the shoulder stripes that were so confusing:
One of the things I completely misread is that at the blue markers you decrease, while at all the other markers you increase. And once it all clicked in my head, it was easy going. You increase (or decrease) on the outside markers, and there's two knit stitches in between the markers, creating all the lovely stripes in the cardigan. It was a little trickier to decide where to put the k2p2 and where to put the knit two rows, purl two rows, but I figured it all out in the end. Yay! Just wrapping my head around it was rewarded by a sense of satisfaction I can hardly describe. It was (almost) worth picking up those 360+ stitches twice.
And just as I got used to the regime of increases and decreases I found myself at row 36, and everything changed. There's no more decreasing for the collar, and there's no more increasing at the front shoulder. Most of the knit two rows, purl two rows have changed to k2p2 ribbing instead to create the collar on the back and down the front of the cardigan.
I'm faced with the next challenge, because I'm not 100% sure I'm doing it right. Trust the pattern, trust the pattern. I'm sure it will be fine. Only 60 rows to go until the "short rows"...
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In other news, I did register for Sock Madness 13, starting March 1st. Depending on how I do in the qualifying round and how busy I am at work, I might just cheerlead-- but who knows!?
At first I picked up the 360+ stitches without a problem, fudging the picking up as much as I dared to get the right number of stitches left and right from the centre-back stripe. It went well enough, but as I started knitting the first row I got confused. The pattern just showed a diagram of the two sleeves with the rectangle over the back, with four arrows one, two, three and four of how to pick up stitches and where. During the first round after picking up all these stitches I was so confused I thought the diagram was upside down, the collar was on part 4, and frogged it all to the point of picking up stitches again.
Only then did I take a good look at the other people who knitted the Bagtanker Cardigan. Ravelry is tremendously helpful in listing these things, and thanks to the clear photographs of other people I finally figured out what I was supposed to do. It would have been so much easier if the pattern included some more detailed photographs or even a good sketch of what you're supposed to do. I guess Geilsk patterns are pretty old-school in that regard.
But I figured it out, thanks to printing other Raveler's detail photographs and connecting the colour-coded markers to the diagonal stripes in their cardigans. And here's the poorly-lit obligatory bathroom selfie at the end of the weekend, showing a bit of the shoulder stripes that were so confusing:
One of the things I completely misread is that at the blue markers you decrease, while at all the other markers you increase. And once it all clicked in my head, it was easy going. You increase (or decrease) on the outside markers, and there's two knit stitches in between the markers, creating all the lovely stripes in the cardigan. It was a little trickier to decide where to put the k2p2 and where to put the knit two rows, purl two rows, but I figured it all out in the end. Yay! Just wrapping my head around it was rewarded by a sense of satisfaction I can hardly describe. It was (almost) worth picking up those 360+ stitches twice.
And just as I got used to the regime of increases and decreases I found myself at row 36, and everything changed. There's no more decreasing for the collar, and there's no more increasing at the front shoulder. Most of the knit two rows, purl two rows have changed to k2p2 ribbing instead to create the collar on the back and down the front of the cardigan.
I'm faced with the next challenge, because I'm not 100% sure I'm doing it right. Trust the pattern, trust the pattern. I'm sure it will be fine. Only 60 rows to go until the "short rows"...
-----
In other news, I did register for Sock Madness 13, starting March 1st. Depending on how I do in the qualifying round and how busy I am at work, I might just cheerlead-- but who knows!?
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