After I moved to the sleeves of Cria the knitting went back in the round and I loved it. No more long purl rows immediately sorted out the pain I've been having in my right thumb. For me knit is quicker and smoother and more enjoyable. It's not that I'm against purling per se, but whole rows of it, no thanks. So I'm planning my next projects and they are all going to be knitted in the round. I'm knitting socks, and a hat and then a steeked vest and then a steeked cardigan, and then maybe a steeked jumper for me. I might follow all that up with a garter stitch cowl. After that I think I'll make knee high socks. By then it will be November and I might be ready to face some rows of purling. Until then it's all knit, all the time.
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...
I love how you can plan your projects so far in advance and actually get them done. I must work on that!
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