I'm not going to be blogging for the next little bit (maybe a week or so) because our home computer stopped working yesterday. Now, I know people blog from their tablets or phones, but I absolutly hate typing on touch screens. I'm positing this from work but, becuase we use Internet Explorer 8, nothing is supported properly and I can't change the font or anything. So, I'll not be posting here, or updating my projects of Ravelry for the newxt little bit, but I'll still be reading your blogs and keeping up to date. See you when the new computer arrives!
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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