trying out
stranded colourwork by doing continental style knitting with the green yarn and english with the blue! actually, it is not hard at all. i watched
eunny's demo and just had at it.
to keep my eye focused on one line of the pattern grid at a time, i cut a skinny window in a 3x5 note card and slide it down as i go . "crimson and clover" is the name of this pattern and i found it in vogue knitting
stitchionary 3.
next time, i will try
steeking to see how that works. :)
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also on the needles:i accidentally cut a hole in some of my yarn while struggling to sew my
nautie's head on his shell. argh. i'll need to tear out about 2 inches and re-knit, but i am really quite close to finishing him. (he has lots of tickly tentacles!)
i am also working on an amigurumi version of
noah, our parakeet. unfortunately, the pattern i bought offline has not worked out to my satisfaction so far. i will need to tweak it--tweak it good!
i also learned how to do the
tubular cast-on required by the fingerless glove pattern i mentioned a few posts ago. i used
this video by interweave. i think i will start them tonight!
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