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lblanchard) wrote2009-10-28 06:50 am
lblanchard) wrote2009-10-28 06:50 am
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Feather and fan
I'd been fooling around with knitting a bit in the past couple of weeks. I find I have enough crap yarn in pale blue to make a little lap robe. So I turned to my Big Book o' Ripple Stitch patterns.
So I thought I'd try "feather and fan", which looked really nice in the book. However. The decrease section is to be worked thusly:
(sl 1, k1, psso) twice
sl 2 k1 p2sso once
k2tog twice
Maybe I don't get the p2sso dingus, but it all looks like crap. I think I will change the pattern to
ssk twice
k1
k2tog twice
That will make the repeat one stitch bigger, big whoop, and will remove all those annoying bars, I think. On the other hand, maybe that's going to make the ripple less pronounced? Maybe there's a better "decrease at the point" stitch? Maybe I should go look at how sl 2 k1 p2sso should really be worked? It sure doesn't look like the pattern in the book when I work it...
So I thought I'd try "feather and fan", which looked really nice in the book. However. The decrease section is to be worked thusly:
(sl 1, k1, psso) twice
sl 2 k1 p2sso once
k2tog twice
Maybe I don't get the p2sso dingus, but it all looks like crap. I think I will change the pattern to
ssk twice
k1
k2tog twice
That will make the repeat one stitch bigger, big whoop, and will remove all those annoying bars, I think. On the other hand, maybe that's going to make the ripple less pronounced? Maybe there's a better "decrease at the point" stitch? Maybe I should go look at how sl 2 k1 p2sso should really be worked? It sure doesn't look like the pattern in the book when I work it...