make one however you darn well please
by now you can tell what i'm working on.
last night after i posted the two pictures, i hit a roadblock. "M1" looks like such an innocent instruction, doesn't it?
i was downstairs and i didn't want to come upstairs to check on the knittinghelp website to see whether i remembered correctly how to "make one." i just did something that i thought seemed right. oh, wait, i'm supposed to knit into the back loop of something. frog. re-knit. okay. they were close to the edge so it didn't matter. it looked fine.
then came a whole row full of increases. i did my thing and went on about twelve rows. then i thought, oh, i don't remember it looking like this. maybe i ought to check the website after all. i looked, thought i'd done it wrong, then frogged back and did it the way the website said to ("lift the horizontal strand between the two stitches and...").
it left holes in the work. big holes! i thought this way was supposed to be the most invisible! so i ripped back, re-knit without knitting through the back loop, and the resulting holes were even bigger. "screw it." i ripped back again and did it my original way. turns out i had accidentally "figured out" KLL and KRL on my own. forget M1.
did i do something wrong, such that my "invisible make ones" came out very visible indeed? anyone have any tips?
do i even care? no i do not. penguin's tummy will be round and smooth with no holes, by golly.
but i guess it would be nice to know for future reference.
posted by CamoBunny @ 7:33 AM
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5 Comments:
you should be able to quietly increase with no holes visible by knitting (or purling) into both the front and the back of a stitch. which way do you knit, english or continental?
thanks for your suggestion. i've done that before as well and can't decide which one gives me the cosmetic results that i like best. in my opinion, a little bump is better than a big hole.
i'm a continental knitter.
ooh, ooh, a continental knitter! *claps hands in exitement*
I agree, a bump is better than a hole. i actually used that method to make a bikini recently (yes, crazy, but actually came out really cute) and, as per parenthetical comment, it came out cute.
Those adorable bunnies you've been making--what do you use for stuffing? and are they truly as simple as you advertize them to be? I'd love to make one for a friends' child.
friend's child that is
(hate grammatical errors)
are there not that many continental knitters out there? are there few enough of us that we ought to stick together? why wouldn't someone choose to knit this way—it seems easier and faster! (uneven gauge isn't a big problem for me.)
for the bunnies, i use a polyester fiberfill stuffing that comes in fluffy clusters. i bought a huge bag of it for like $1 and despite four bunnies and a kitty it seems i'll never go through the whole bag. i suppose one caveat to keep in mind is that it is not flame retardant (there are warnings on the bag).
the knitting of the bunny is very simple; you just knit a stockinette square, garter stitch some ears, and make some i-cord and curl it up for a tail. it's the sewing that turns the square into a bunny. i use a mattress stitch to sew it up; it's mildly tedious but not difficult. if you're making swimwear then these bunnies will be very easy for you.
oh, and did i say "yay"? a knitter commented on my knitblog! yay!
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