Knitting Class, Week 4
Jul. 3rd, 2010 09:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livingdebPeople were a bit late to class due to torrential rains, but everyone made it.
The instructor and I were both there early, so I got to show her my hat and my cat's paw lace. She pronounced my hat good. I said I had thought that her decreases were prettier, but she wouldn't tell me about them. She found where I had lost a stitch in the cat's eye lace and tsk-tsked me when I told her about deciding not to use markers on that one.
This week's topic was cabling, described by Robin as noodles woven together. This is what you notice in fisherman sweaters.
I had heard that the technique was actually quite simple. You have to have some of the stitches do-si-do with each other, so you just slip some of them off onto a cable needle, knit a couple of stitches, slip them back on, and work from there.
Oy, except not simple! a) Handling three needles with two hands is, shall we say, amusing. b) Twisting your stitches around each other makes them tight and liable to jump off needles.
So basically, it's like every other class--we're learning something that's a bit more annoying than what we learned last time.
She did show me a way to do cables, at least those involving the movement of only 1 or 2 stitches, without a third needle. I had thought I would like it, but then after trying it a few times, I decided it was too dangerous.
Cabling is cool, though. I figured the gal who said she hated lace last week because she likes chunky stuff would like this, and she did.
The instructor and I were both there early, so I got to show her my hat and my cat's paw lace. She pronounced my hat good. I said I had thought that her decreases were prettier, but she wouldn't tell me about them. She found where I had lost a stitch in the cat's eye lace and tsk-tsked me when I told her about deciding not to use markers on that one.
This week's topic was cabling, described by Robin as noodles woven together. This is what you notice in fisherman sweaters.
I had heard that the technique was actually quite simple. You have to have some of the stitches do-si-do with each other, so you just slip some of them off onto a cable needle, knit a couple of stitches, slip them back on, and work from there.
Oy, except not simple! a) Handling three needles with two hands is, shall we say, amusing. b) Twisting your stitches around each other makes them tight and liable to jump off needles.
So basically, it's like every other class--we're learning something that's a bit more annoying than what we learned last time.
She did show me a way to do cables, at least those involving the movement of only 1 or 2 stitches, without a third needle. I had thought I would like it, but then after trying it a few times, I decided it was too dangerous.
Cabling is cool, though. I figured the gal who said she hated lace last week because she likes chunky stuff would like this, and she did.