I’m Knitting As Fast As I Can

OK, I’ve come to a decision about the scarf. I’m frogging. I can’t stand scarves that curl in at the edges and this is clearly going to curl even with a good blocking.

But, I really like the stitch pattern, especially the strong lines of decreases which you can see really clearly in Rebekkah’s Scroll Lace socks. So I set about figuring out how to keep those lines while working in garter stitch.

Here’s the result:

It’s difficult to see in the crappy, pre-dawn photo but basically, I worked the selvage stitches and the decreases in stockinette stitch and kept everything else in garter stitch.

Compared to the portion knit wholly in stockinette stitch, the garter version is obviously much flatter:

Thumbs up or down?? I’m thinking thumbs down. I’m just not feeling the love for the garter stitch. It really ruins the charm of the stitch pattern.

But, wait! There’s “Plan C.” What about a cowl?? I can stop the bottom and top edges from rolling with garter stitch or moss stitch and the rest of the piece can’t curl ’cause it will be a tube.

Something to think about.

As you’re probably aware, MagKnits is gone and all the archived patterns have been deleted, including my Amber Hat and Lombard Street Socks patterns. I contemplated creating PDF files of the patterns and uploading them to Ravelry, but I know there are many people who aren’t yet on Ravelry. (As an aside, what are you waiting for?? Sign up now!!)

Jody graciously offered to host the patterns on her new ezine, Knotions and I quickly took her up on the offer.

You can find Amber here, and Lombard Street here. I’ve also fixed the links in my sidebar and on Ravelry.

Three cheers for Jody. The patterns look awesome!

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??