I’ve been stuck on dishcloths lately (I think I have my mother to thank for that. She is obsessed!). I don’t usually knit because it takes about ten times as long as crochet and I’m a beginner so the results aren’t as good, but I’m in a two-stick phase. Practice makes perfect!
I have only tried the multiple needle approach – it’s a bit tricky at first, but really quite easy once you get going. The cool thing about knitting socks is that to produce stockinette stitch you just keep knitting every round (rather than knit one row, purl one row, etc.) I just posted some new ones on facebook that were really easy…
Thanks, kristinknits! I think it’s the border that makes it lie flat – I think this one is just four or five rows of knit stitches only, and then from there on, I knit the first five stitches and last five stitches on every line without exception, and I just do one line of knit, and the next purl for the non-border part…
….. erm, clearly I will never make it as a pattern-writer.
I love it! Is that cotton yarn? I am mildly obsessed with knitting and I haven’t been able to do as much as I’d like lately…:(
Thank you! And yep! Cotton yarn. I love to knit/crochet with it (which, I think, is why I’m on such a dishcloth kick).
I hope that you get to knit as much as you want soon! Are you still doing school?
ahah, yah i’m in school FOREVER! Another 3 years, I think. Yeeeehaw. I’ll be 30 when I’m finally done.
Knitting doesn’t seem to happen much in the summer. I finished another pair of socks, but that was a month ago now….
For Nicole (I wish this blog had a proper reply feature):
The 3 years will be well worth it when you’re making a lot of money at a job you will enjoy.
I haven’t been brave enough to try socks!! Do you knit yours on round needles, or three (well, four) sticks?
I have only tried the multiple needle approach – it’s a bit tricky at first, but really quite easy once you get going. The cool thing about knitting socks is that to produce stockinette stitch you just keep knitting every round (rather than knit one row, purl one row, etc.) I just posted some new ones on facebook that were really easy…
That cloth is beautiful! How do you get it to lie so flat?
Thanks, kristinknits! I think it’s the border that makes it lie flat – I think this one is just four or five rows of knit stitches only, and then from there on, I knit the first five stitches and last five stitches on every line without exception, and I just do one line of knit, and the next purl for the non-border part…
….. erm, clearly I will never make it as a pattern-writer.