Progress on knit things and a graft question



I wasn't feeling too well yesterday so I stayed in. It was pretty miserable, because I couldn't really move for a while, and then I had to take a 3 hour nap. No matter. I feel okay now. The bright side of the immobile day at home was that I got a bunch of knitting done. I finished the hood of Rogue, and I'm up to the bit where you graft the hood. I stopped there last night because I figured that I'd better be awake for it. So here's the question: As I graft across the reverse stockinette, should I account for that? I've looked for any comment on the web about how to do the graft, but I don't see any. I guess that I should know to do this, but I think I've confused myself. I checked out the Fall IK to see what wisdom it had to share about grafting over textured stitches, and the suggestion there was to graft over the knit stitches on the right side, then turn over and graft the knit stitches on the wrong side. I dunno ... I'm lazy so I don't want to do that, but I do want it to look good. If anyone out there has an opinion, let me know. I'm going to barrel ahead as usual with one method and see how it works. Hopefully it won't end in tears. Hey, speaking of that maybe I should check to see what EZ has to say.

It's getting cold enough here in the big smoke to have to wear hand coverings. I've had loads of grand plans for mittens and fingerless gloves and all sorts of things, but none of them got off the ground before the cold moved in. It seems to be an admission of defeat to use a scarf, hat, or glove that is purchased from a store. What kind of a knitter does that? I've finished swatching for some mittens, though, and I am ready to go on them. Unfortunately I'm going to have to head out and grab yet another set of dpns for them. Hopefully I can find a brand that I like a bit better than the Swallow caseins. I like the way that the Swallows look a lot, and they feel nice too, but the point on them is just too shallow for my taste. Not that I really need a trip to the yarn store.

A pictorial representation of my knitting plans and progress for the weekend:

Posted: Sat - November 13, 2004 at 12:55 PM         |

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