As you know,
this year I did the Armchair Travelling Club with Miss Babs, which I
loved. Last year I did the Cookie A Sock Club, which was also a
wonderful, fun experience. Now we are coming up to the time of year
when club memberships open, for both
these and a host of other clubs. I've decided not to join any yarn clubs
for 2013. I'm intent on knitting the stash down, on ending 2014 with a
half empty box. I was a little bit sad about not being part of the fun that is yarn clubs, knitting along with others, but then I realised I
have joined not one, but two Romi Hill pattern
subscriptions, so I'll still get that fun, particularly because Romi Hill's Ravelry group is incredibly active and enthusiastic.
As mentioned, prior to our hiking trip I suddenly, and rather randomly, decided to knit Andrea Morwy's Traveler Shell . It's basically an open fronted rectangle in a knit purl pattern. The pattern is FOURTEEN pages long. Why is the pattern 14 pages long? Because, instead of explaining the ten row repeat and then putting the shaping on top of that (e.g. decrease while continuing to knit in pattern), she writes out the entire ten row knit purl sequence every time something changes. Additionally, most of the time she starts with even number being the right side and wrong numbers being the right side,which is just plain odd. It's confusing and it's like she wants to keep you looking at the pattern for every row, rathe than following the very intuitive stitch pattern, which I had memorised after one repeat. The instructions for the band just say 'pick up x number of stitches'. No ratios, no acjnowledgement that different bits of the band have different ratios. Afte...
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