This week was my first full week of school. It was so stressful. I have had homework everyday this week. Even though it is the weekend, I still have homework! I am hoping that next week I will have less homework and will have sometime to work on and tell you all about my most recent knitting adventure I have started on. I will try to tell you all about my current knitting adventure soon. I can't talk about it right now because I am typing this on my phone and I have too much that I want to share about it and it would take me forever (or at least a very long time) to type all about it on my phone. I just wanted to post a quick update saying Hi! I have been busy and stressed and haven't had very much free time! Hopefully, next week I will be able to share about my adventure!!
Sorry if this post was repetitive.
I hope you all are doing well and all of your knitting adventures are successful! :D
Saturday, August 18, 2012
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
My Waffle Knit Dishcloth Knitting Adventure!
First off, I want to go ahead and post the links to the Waffle Knit Dishcloth pattern. Here is the link to the Waffle Knit Dishcloth pattern on Ravelry. Here is the link to the website where the pattern is: Waffle Knit Dishcloth.
One of the patterns I chose for my Ravellenic Game projects was the Waffle Knit Dishcloth. I am really glad I chose to make this!! I think it helped improve my knitting skills a lot.
You start the project out by making a few rows of garter stitch because the cloth has a garter stitch border. I think I did pretty well on that part. However, I did loose count of how many rows of garter stitch I had, but I think I ended up with the correct number of rows (or close to the correct number of rows.
After you do the few rows of garter stitch you start on the repeating part of the pattern. You just repeat the four rows of the pattern to create the dishcloth. I started out pretty well. I wasn't having too much trouble with the stitches or anything and I didn't even really need to look at the pattern after a few repeats (it is really easy).
All was going well until I thought I dropped a stitch. I counted the stitches split between my two needles because I was in the middle of the row. I counted that I was one short so I must have dropped a stitch (more likely I miss counted). I quickly fixed it (or so I thought) and continued the row. As I reached the end of the row I saw that I had the wrong number of stitches left. Thinking I had just messed up earlier in the row I continued on, until I had the wrong number of stitches left again! I counted my stitches again and realized I had added a stitch somewhere! I think the stitch was added where I had thought I dropped a stitch.
If I kept knitting, the entire pattern would continue to be off. I had to get rid of a stitch somewhere. I was already towards the end of the row so I simply knit two stitches together. I once again, had the correct number of stitches on my needles! Luckily, the mistake was towards the beginning. The pattern shifted one stitch on the rest of the dishcloth, but I think it looks alright.
I think I probably could have just frogged back to the row before I added the stitch and all would have been fine, but I don't know how to frog back in knitting yet. The way I fixed it worked well for me this time and I am happy with how it turned out.
I am going to use this for a blanket square instead of a dishcloth. I am very happy with how it turned out!
One of the patterns I chose for my Ravellenic Game projects was the Waffle Knit Dishcloth. I am really glad I chose to make this!! I think it helped improve my knitting skills a lot.
You start the project out by making a few rows of garter stitch because the cloth has a garter stitch border. I think I did pretty well on that part. However, I did loose count of how many rows of garter stitch I had, but I think I ended up with the correct number of rows (or close to the correct number of rows.
After you do the few rows of garter stitch you start on the repeating part of the pattern. You just repeat the four rows of the pattern to create the dishcloth. I started out pretty well. I wasn't having too much trouble with the stitches or anything and I didn't even really need to look at the pattern after a few repeats (it is really easy).
Here is a picture of my work after I finished the border rows and started on the repeats.
The pattern directions were readable in the picture so I marked them out. (The link to the pattern is at the beginning of this post)
All was going well until I thought I dropped a stitch. I counted the stitches split between my two needles because I was in the middle of the row. I counted that I was one short so I must have dropped a stitch (more likely I miss counted). I quickly fixed it (or so I thought) and continued the row. As I reached the end of the row I saw that I had the wrong number of stitches left. Thinking I had just messed up earlier in the row I continued on, until I had the wrong number of stitches left again! I counted my stitches again and realized I had added a stitch somewhere! I think the stitch was added where I had thought I dropped a stitch.
I remember taking this picture around the time I made the mistake.
If I kept knitting, the entire pattern would continue to be off. I had to get rid of a stitch somewhere. I was already towards the end of the row so I simply knit two stitches together. I once again, had the correct number of stitches on my needles! Luckily, the mistake was towards the beginning. The pattern shifted one stitch on the rest of the dishcloth, but I think it looks alright.
I think I probably could have just frogged back to the row before I added the stitch and all would have been fine, but I don't know how to frog back in knitting yet. The way I fixed it worked well for me this time and I am happy with how it turned out.
I am going to use this for a blanket square instead of a dishcloth. I am very happy with how it turned out!
I think it looks pretty fancy, if I do say so myself :)
Overall I would call this knitting adventure a success!!
I have started on my other knitting project for the Ravellenic Games, but I am going to start over on it because I want to use different colors :)
I had a really fun time making this and I can't wait to start my next adventure!!
What knitting adventures are you working on right now?
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