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A Blanket for MrsKwazii (continued)

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KnottyLocks · 08/03/2012 17:17

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MinnieBar · 09/03/2012 20:50

So close. I got to the almost end, where I should have 8 stitches left, and I had 7.
It's an improvement?

RatherBeOnThePiste · 09/03/2012 20:50

More lovely donors from today - many many thanks to you

Thanks travellingwilbury

Thanks Flapjack77

tribpot · 09/03/2012 20:52

Minnie - no, you're slipping it off the needle completely. The slipped stitch has gone for good, making a hole.

Have a look at this diagram - they are only doing sl1, k1, psso, but it's the same idea. You slip one stitch from the left needle to the right. You knit two stitches together so you end up with one more stitch on the right needle. Then you pull the first stitch, the slipped one, up and over the second stitch and OFF the needle completely. Bosh. One stitch left.

GleamingHeels · 09/03/2012 20:53

Minnie - maybe we should continue this tomorrow, but psso K2tog means...

slip a stich from the left needle to the right without knitting it - just move it over to the right needle
then knit two stitches together on the left needle - leaving only one stitch on the right needle
then use your left needle to 'cast off (bind off) the slip stitch over the stitch you've just made by knitting two together - it doesn't go back onto the left needle at all.

I'm trying hard to think why you're running out of stitches on your left needle -

could you be repeating the bit before the square brackets start?

I do really want to help, but suspect I am being a bit thick and missing an obvious problem

GleamingHeels · 09/03/2012 20:58

Minnie 7 stitches instead of eight, you must have sussed the pattern! Grin
One little glitch, but it can't be the same problem as running out of stitches

tribpot · 09/03/2012 20:59

Btw the other thing you need to avoid Minnie is thinking about all 37 stitches at once if that makes sense. You have a block of 8 at the beginning and the end, so you are patterning on the middle 21. You've then got what appears to be 6 repeats of the pattern but it's actually 7, just on the final one you only do 1 YO instead of 2 (because you also did an extra, rogue YO right at the start of the pattern part of the row.

So:

[first 8 stitches]
YO
Sl1, K2tog, psso, YO, YO
Sl1, K2tog, psso, YO, YO
Sl1, K2tog, psso, YO, YO
Sl1, K2tog, psso, YO, YO
Sl1, K2tog, psso, YO, YO
Sl1, K2tog, psso, YO, YO
Sl1, K2tog, psso, YO
[last 8 stitches]

MinnieBar · 09/03/2012 21:09

Oh.

Maybe I'm doing the double YO bit wrong. I've had too much wine for tonight (cheers!) but I'll look again in the morning.

Really, really appreciate all your help. I'm about an hour from Cheltenham and the Didcot meet is def do-able except for the fact I'd have all three DCs with me so chances of actually knitting are close to zero?

RatherBeOnThePiste · 09/03/2012 21:17

Trying to send some PMs and now it won't let me Sad I'm getting lots of PMs though, so incoming is OK, just not outgoing.

Woollyideas - you got my first PM, I'm not sure you got the other, I don't think it went though, but I need your address

Could someone PM flapjack77 to say her donation has arrived, I've put it on the thread but want her to know it is here. And also could someone PM travellingwilbury her wool has arrived and she has been worried about it. Thank you kind person who does PM for me x

I shall leave other replies until tomorrow, sorry

Knotty - we have to keep up pushing for changes to the PM system, the whole thing needs an overhaul, tis bloody bonkerzzzzz!

Wine
BarbaraWoodlouse · 09/03/2012 21:26

Minnie, if you haven't tried it already, You Tube is brilliant for getting your head around new stitches. I usually learn better by reading than seeing IYKWIM but knitting is definitely the exception I find.

tribpot · 09/03/2012 21:32

Pistey I've PMed wilbury and flapjack, what a shame the PM system is letting us down! It sounds like there's no 'super user' option that MN use for their own people, even. Let me know if you need me to send any more.

tribpot · 09/03/2012 22:04

And travellingwilbury has been in touch to confirm she's got the message. Phew!

MmeLindor. · 09/03/2012 22:07

ooooh, I have such a guilty conscience. I agreed to send wool to a knitter but it was around the time that we moved house and I totally forgot about it.

Shall I still send it to the person I was told to send it to, or have you re-matched them?

I am really sorry.

woollyideas · 09/03/2012 22:19

Hi Pistey, Hope you have my PMs now. Have got yours!

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KnottyLocks · 09/03/2012 22:19

I did wonder why my Inbox was rather quiet.

MmeL , I'll just check for you.

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KnottyLocks · 09/03/2012 22:24

If you are having trouble PMing Pistey, please feel free to PM me and we'll try to get any questions answered.

Thanks
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MinnieBar · 09/03/2012 23:04

Well I've sort of discovered my mistake - I was treating 'yo' as 'yo and k1', so that's why I was using up my extra stitches.

But the next row says to mostly purl, and to purl into the double yos by purling into the back leg.

Fine, I thought, that's rather like M1P, except I've lost four stitches along the way somehow! And I thought trying to read a graph pattern with cabling in it was hard?

I'm torn between just giving up and admitting defeat and doggedly carrying on until I can beat this sucker. Hmm.

tribpot · 09/03/2012 23:10

Oh lord. Purling into the back leg sounds painful Grin That sounds a bit like they expect the double YOs to resolve to a single purled stitch in this row, but that can't be right given you'll end up with too few stitches as a result.

But wait - the pattern says working into double yo as follows: P1. P1tbl

So purl the first YO just like always, and then purl the second one through the back of the loop - that works, same number of stitches after as before.

Would I be right in thinking you probably won't be tackling the full size blanket version of this pattern afterwards?!

tribpot · 09/03/2012 23:17

And btw Minnie I'm going to do this square this weekend purely as a show of solidarity now! Keep the faith!

MinnieBar · 09/03/2012 23:22

Damn straight! I think my trouble is that when I try to slip the first loop of the yo off, the second bit wants to come too and then I'm getting confused about where one ends and the other starts.

You guys are so lovely though, spending all this time trying to sort my dunderhead brain out. And that's not just the wine talking, honest.

Off to bed now. Insomnia and a restless night's sleep beckons, probably punctuated with dreams of knitting?

chipmonkey · 10/03/2012 01:47

I have now done a dragonfly square as well but it is a bit hourglassy, tighter in the middle than at the edges. Pic on my profile. Is it usable?

GleamingHeels · 10/03/2012 06:30

chipmonkey lovely squares, and an especially lovely dragonfly

tribpot and Minnie - I'll have a go at doing that square too, I'm sure that you're right about the difficulties of purling into the first of the a double yo and the second trying to escape

tribpot · 10/03/2012 06:44

Love the dragonfly chipmonkey!

Gleaming, Minnie - it's heart-against-heart: game on! Wink

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KnottyLocks · 10/03/2012 07:16

Morning Smile

Chip, the squares are gorgeous Star Yes, to the Dragonfly. Looks very lovely Smile

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MinnieBar · 10/03/2012 07:34

I think I have a teeny disadvantage of not being able to read a pattern properly?

tribpot · 10/03/2012 07:40

Minnie - yes, for the sake of compressing the instructions they can become very difficult to understand. Particularly on row 12 where they have nested one instruction repeat inside another, so

[do the stuff in here (and this) twice] 6 times

Not obvious that means:

Do the stuff. Do the bit in brackets twice.
Repeat the above line 6 times.