Author Archives: vyndree

Using german short rows in place of the short rows written in pattern

Leg: (49 rows after gusset) decreased every 5 rows (k2tog, k1 before BOR marker, ssk after)

Cuff: (26 rows after leg) k2, p2 around

09-21-2018

Going down in needle size. On my other WotA soakers, I get 4.25 stitches per inch on size 7 needles. I’m going to see what I get with size 6. (Either I became a tighter knitter or this relaxes after washing because I’m all the way to 21 s…

Using the short rows described in the comments of a Flax hacks blog post to adjust the neckline:

To do short row shaping for the Flax it goes like this:

Back Neck shaping comes after the set up round but before the increase round.

(Note: I did th…

Using the short rows described in the comments of a Flax hacks blog post to adjust the neckline:

To do short row shaping for the Flax it goes like this:

Back Neck shaping comes after the set up round but before the increase round.

(Note: I did th…

I was getting 10.5 stitches per 4” instead of the 8.5 stitches per 4” gauge in pattern. Switching to size 15 needles (hopefully they work – I have to pick up new needles otherwise)

11-13-2018

Got fairly close to pattern gauge (8.5sts/13rows per 4”)…

Using a baby sweater for Sami as a swatch for the larger sweaters I’m knitting for the rest of us.

Bind off used: JSSBO

11-18-2018

Since I’m using this project as a swatch for a larger Flax: it’s 16.5 stitches and 22 rows in 4 inches before washin…

Casted on with whatever I had in my stash, because we got our first snow and the store is completely sold out of toddler size mittens. I should have enough yarn to make a matching hat later.

Doing two-at-a-time mittens on a long circular needle.

This is my “swatch” for a larger sweater out of Chroma fingering. We’ll also see how bad it pills.

Bound off in JSSBO

Using german short rows, and the jogless stripe method described here.

11-02-2018

First leg finished after 50 leg rows. Decreased every 5 rows. (K2TOG before BOR marker, slip BOR marker, k1, SSK) Cuff: k2, p2 Bound off using JSSBO