Frog Or Not To Frog
All of this experimentation with spinning twist and plying twist has had the unexpected consequence of renewing my interest in knitting with my handspun. While I was rooting around in the roving cupboard, I came across a fingering-weight 2-ply that I spun from some yummy Shetland.
Last year I saw a cute scarf that Brooke knit from a stitch pattern Barbara Walker calls Scrolls. I bookmarked the page on Brooke’s blog but I didn’t even have to pull out my Barbara Walker Treasury because I found a free scarf pattern on the Kollage Yarns website that uses the stitch.
I haven’t knit much on the scarf since I’m trying to finish up a secret project, but I’ve knit enough to realize that the edges of the finished scarf are probably going to roll . . . a lot.
A quick check on Ravelry revealed that at least one person who used this stitch pattern for a scarf reported that the edges on her scarf curl.
I’m contemplating frogging and working the stitch pattern in garter stitch instead of stockinette. Anyone done that with this particular stitch pattern or am I on my own??
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Susan | knitting, spinning, scarves
You don’t think a good blocking will help? I don’t mind a little roll as I want the scarf to wrap around my neck. You won’t see much of the pattern anyway…that said. I might change my mind as I found a pattern I like better (maybe).
Wow, we really are on the same wavelength right now. That’s the stitch pattern used in the Alhambra scarf that I’m making out of handspun. A quick ravelry check doesn’t turn up any curling edges, but there’s only a few finished.
I’ve only used that stitch pattern in socks. It’s fun to knit though!
Frog, frog, baby.
Cute pattern.
Bet you frog it and add a garter border.
If it will bother you, rip it before you go any further!
I don’t like it when anything that isn’t suppose to rolls! So I would rip it! It is too nice of yarn to leave in a project you won’t love!
What if you did a 2-3 stitch garter at the edge? Could that stop the curl?
What about trying some crochet at the edges? A slip stitch should maintain the shape and get rid of the rolling. You could try it on one side of what you’ve knit so far.
looks like it might need a border stitch?
If you are asking . . .
Yeah, if it bugs you, frog it! But the pattern does look like fun.
Your handspun is lovely. I agree it might be better in garter, but I have no idea how it might work (sorry).
Do a swatch….
hmmm - with all that stitch work, who would want it to roll up and not show..? (ribbit ribbit)
It looks very similar to Anne Hanson Alhambra - but I haven’t heard any issues with her scarf curling.
Dont frog!! Have you tried just spraying it with water and have it relaxed. I take a spray bottle and do my blocking in stages. Every night I lightly spray my knitting and straighten it out flat and let it dry overnight and it is blocked by the next a.m. Don’t soak it, but spray enough to have it soak into the yarn to make it very moveable. Works for me even with lace patterns. Then knit more, and spray more, eliminate the tiresome needle blocking.
pjd
Hi Susan
frogging is better i think.
A scarf with such different front and back…
The pattern stitch looks well, but the back side…
excuse my english please.
regards
Iris from Germany