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janestarzThe start of the Snowflake jumper is going to be a lace yoke - and I've been struggling a bit with it. After the initial band of seed stitches there's an ambiguous instruction: "knit, increasing 32 sts evenly spaced". On a start of 130 stitches....I was a bit stumped. That's increasing a lot of stitches, so how would I go about that?
I first divided the 130 stitches by the 32 stitches I would need to increase.... 130/32 = 4.065.
So....increase every fourth stitch? But then, would that mean I would need to do my final increase after the final stitch of the row? Of course I lost count a couple of times as well.
I somehow managed, although at this time I am doubtful that I managed it correctly. After getting to row 15 of the 32 rows of the lace yoke, I needed to frog back a good bit. Then I came to row 17 and found that one of my 'sections' of lace had the wrong number of stitches in it. I un-knit several rows of lace but couldn't find where I'd gone wrong. It all looked fine but I still had one stitch too many in that section. It wasn't even that I'd moved a section marker over and the next section had one stitch too few, I just couldn't figure it out!
This week after much un-knitting and trying my best to figure out the problem, I frogged back to just after the seed stitch portion of the neck band and I am again faced with the increase math. Now, how did I do this the first time around? I don't remember.
Anyway, here's a picture of the first 17 rows of lace from right before I frogged back to the seed stitches:
I just need to figure out how to best do the increases again using this knitting increase calculator, and counting my stitches a couple of more times (I've been struggling with this far more than I should, to be honest!).
One thing that is also bothering me is this needle -- an Addi circular with a really long cable that doesn't want to 'behave properly'. I might change that out to my HiyaHiya sharps instead, see if that works better. And then it's once more into the breech!
I first divided the 130 stitches by the 32 stitches I would need to increase.... 130/32 = 4.065.
So....increase every fourth stitch? But then, would that mean I would need to do my final increase after the final stitch of the row? Of course I lost count a couple of times as well.
I somehow managed, although at this time I am doubtful that I managed it correctly. After getting to row 15 of the 32 rows of the lace yoke, I needed to frog back a good bit. Then I came to row 17 and found that one of my 'sections' of lace had the wrong number of stitches in it. I un-knit several rows of lace but couldn't find where I'd gone wrong. It all looked fine but I still had one stitch too many in that section. It wasn't even that I'd moved a section marker over and the next section had one stitch too few, I just couldn't figure it out!
This week after much un-knitting and trying my best to figure out the problem, I frogged back to just after the seed stitch portion of the neck band and I am again faced with the increase math. Now, how did I do this the first time around? I don't remember.
Anyway, here's a picture of the first 17 rows of lace from right before I frogged back to the seed stitches:
I just need to figure out how to best do the increases again using this knitting increase calculator, and counting my stitches a couple of more times (I've been struggling with this far more than I should, to be honest!).
One thing that is also bothering me is this needle -- an Addi circular with a really long cable that doesn't want to 'behave properly'. I might change that out to my HiyaHiya sharps instead, see if that works better. And then it's once more into the breech!
