Man, I adore that cabled scarf(?) in the first photo! One thing I've told myself I'll do this year is learn to knit. I can crochet like nobody's business, but two needles have always been beyond me. The horizontal cabling looks really neat too - excellent job!
That site's now in my bookmarks, thanks! I love to crochet, and it's good for some things that I imagine are harder to knit, but there are also things it just can't do. My sister tried to teach me over Christmas, but she holds her needles "wrong," according to just about everyone, so it didn't go too well.
Is your Ravelry username the same as your LJ, by the way?
Credit should really go to the late Trude Guermonprez, or so says the book I got this out of (Margaret Stove's Creating Original Hand-knitted Lace, p. 137). I just posted it to the internet and improved the technique for switching the stitches around.
The problem with the first normal row after these things is that it is always too loose. One thing that sort of works is to knit a few rows, then go back and tug a little on each of the horizontal stitches to pull some of the excess yarn out of the top.
I just tried slipping (rather than knit/purling) the background stitches (in your case, only on the last row), which makes that row too tight instead of too loose. It looks better, at least since I'm not doing lots of these. You want to slip these with yarn in back, or else you end up with a chain of stitches that isn't actually attached to the fabric.
I've never tried doing multiple rows of these (or any other form of fat horizontal cable). Perhaps I should experiment.
I've spent all day playing with these--I'm doing a new swatch--specifically to try and solve that looseness problem. I'll try slipping the background stitches.
For multiple rows, there's probably a way to do it without knitting it backwards, since as you knit it backwards--since I'm not actually knitting left-handed, just purling from the back to fake a knit stitch--it ends up twisting all the stitches again.
I've started using a M1L/R (as necessary) instead of a kfb since it's a little more invisible, then I slip the stitch kw, do the rearranging thingy like the k2tog, then knit the first (background, I think?) stitch through the back loop, then the next one through the front as usual.
Thanks for the tip--do you mind if I add your journal? Are you on Ravelry at all, as well?
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If you decide to learn, KnittingHelp.com is PRICELESS.
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Is your Ravelry username the same as your LJ, by the way?
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The problem with the first normal row after these things is that it is always too loose. One thing that sort of works is to knit a few rows, then go back and tug a little on each of the horizontal stitches to pull some of the excess yarn out of the top.
I just tried slipping (rather than knit/purling) the background stitches (in your case, only on the last row), which makes that row too tight instead of too loose. It looks better, at least since I'm not doing lots of these. You want to slip these with yarn in back, or else you end up with a chain of stitches that isn't actually attached to the fabric.
I've never tried doing multiple rows of these (or any other form of fat horizontal cable). Perhaps I should experiment.
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For multiple rows, there's probably a way to do it without knitting it backwards, since as you knit it backwards--since I'm not actually knitting left-handed, just purling from the back to fake a knit stitch--it ends up twisting all the stitches again.
I've started using a M1L/R (as necessary) instead of a kfb since it's a little more invisible, then I slip the stitch kw, do the rearranging thingy like the k2tog, then knit the first (background, I think?) stitch through the back loop, then the next one through the front as usual.
Thanks for the tip--do you mind if I add your journal? Are you on Ravelry at all, as well?
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I have a Ravelry account, but I haven't done anything with it; I should really do some investigating to see what I can do with it.
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