out of sight, out of mind ....
My knitting needles are in a box (out of sight) because last night I was out of my mind with frustration.
The Little Arrowhead Lace is not a hard pattern and on the 'Molly's Headband', it's done within 19 stitchs for the part of the pattern that repeats. So why do I repeatedly end up with 18 stitches? I don't know. I know how to knit, purl and yarn over and with the help of videos from KnittingHelp.com I can do the increases and decreases. So I'm deducing that the problem lies somewhere with my continuing to lose count.
This puts a serious crimp in my dream to be able to knit socks.
Well, I still like the pattern ... so all is not lost ... with the obvious exception being my mind.
TGIF!
The Little Arrowhead Lace is not a hard pattern and on the 'Molly's Headband', it's done within 19 stitchs for the part of the pattern that repeats. So why do I repeatedly end up with 18 stitches? I don't know. I know how to knit, purl and yarn over and with the help of videos from KnittingHelp.com I can do the increases and decreases. So I'm deducing that the problem lies somewhere with my continuing to lose count.
This puts a serious crimp in my dream to be able to knit socks.
Well, I still like the pattern ... so all is not lost ... with the obvious exception being my mind.
TGIF!
1 Comments:
At 3:08 PM, labellesansbete said…
Try putting stitch markers on your needles. Stitch markers are small loops of yarn in a contrasting color. You make them yourself. Put one at the end of each stitch pattern where you hope to have 19 stitches. This will help you to keep count. What I think may be happening is that you have a purl stitch followed by a yarnover or some similar type of combination. Unless you look at it carefully your yarnover will disappear when you do the following row. Good luck!
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