Monday, Monday, can't trust that day
May. 4th, 2009 12:03 pmYeah, so far my Monday has been a Monday. *sigh* At least it's a day off. There shall be knitting later. And possibly some retail therapy (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
queenoftheskies finally picked out colors for her market tote, and as pretty as the natural colors that came with the kit are, I will be PAST ready to deal with some REAL color by the time I'm done. It doesn't hurt she picked out lots of green. :D)
Speaking of the market tote, my provisional cast on wasn't. :P I did the crochet cast on following instructions, and knit my first row through the back of each stitch, just like it said. This twisted the yarn together so that all I could do in the end was cut the crochet stitches and pick them out one by one. -_- Later, reading the KAL blog, I learned that the instructions should have included an initial purl row before the slip stitch pattern started; I don't know if purling would have saved me the headache, but it would have saved all the knitters who wound up with 25 stitches when they removed the provisional cast on, instead of 41 (though, I don't know how badly that hurt them, as the first thing you do is reduce the 41 stitches to 25 anyway).
But, yeah, I lost probably an hour trying to get my 41 stitches free of the provisional cast on (I finally wound up with 39, two of them vanishing in the picking apart process; I picked up extra side stitches to compensate), buggered the first set of lace completely, knit around plain for about an inch (my "I meant to do that" restart, because I was too lazy to totally start over), and set up my knitting with markers every eight stitches, to keep myself on track. Things went much better after that. I'd feel worse about the mistakes if the bag were going to someone who'd use it, but instead, it's going to the person from my previous post of petty wrongness (she saw me knitting it and asked for one, despite never using anything I've made her). I'm about a quarter way up the sides, now.
I really, really need to figure out a way to do a provisional cast on that works, though.
Edit: There are not even words for how much I want this. (My current set of interchangeable circular needles is of uncertain origin, possibly Sears, purchased for 50¢ at a yard sale, the cables are like actual cable OMG, and the tips tend to unscrew themselves.)
queenoftheskies finally picked out colors for her market tote, and as pretty as the natural colors that came with the kit are, I will be PAST ready to deal with some REAL color by the time I'm done. It doesn't hurt she picked out lots of green. :D)Speaking of the market tote, my provisional cast on wasn't. :P I did the crochet cast on following instructions, and knit my first row through the back of each stitch, just like it said. This twisted the yarn together so that all I could do in the end was cut the crochet stitches and pick them out one by one. -_- Later, reading the KAL blog, I learned that the instructions should have included an initial purl row before the slip stitch pattern started; I don't know if purling would have saved me the headache, but it would have saved all the knitters who wound up with 25 stitches when they removed the provisional cast on, instead of 41 (though, I don't know how badly that hurt them, as the first thing you do is reduce the 41 stitches to 25 anyway).
But, yeah, I lost probably an hour trying to get my 41 stitches free of the provisional cast on (I finally wound up with 39, two of them vanishing in the picking apart process; I picked up extra side stitches to compensate), buggered the first set of lace completely, knit around plain for about an inch (my "I meant to do that" restart, because I was too lazy to totally start over), and set up my knitting with markers every eight stitches, to keep myself on track. Things went much better after that. I'd feel worse about the mistakes if the bag were going to someone who'd use it, but instead, it's going to the person from my previous post of petty wrongness (she saw me knitting it and asked for one, despite never using anything I've made her). I'm about a quarter way up the sides, now.
I really, really need to figure out a way to do a provisional cast on that works, though.
Edit: There are not even words for how much I want this. (My current set of interchangeable circular needles is of uncertain origin, possibly Sears, purchased for 50¢ at a yard sale, the cables are like actual cable OMG, and the tips tend to unscrew themselves.)
