Ultimate Pattern Override
I haven't been able to start the Orange Fibonacci Scarf since I finally figured it out. Every time I pick it up, Monkey comes over, shoves the work out of my lap and says "Away! Up up, me lap!"
OK, kid, I get the hint, the scarf is stressing me out, and you are a cuddle monster. I get it.
So instead, I cast on a Zig Zag scarf for my niece with some other yarn that I found on our Yarn Store Excursion. I had seen other similar scarves before, and I had a pattern for one in my crazyft room so, BOOM, scarf begun!
Except as I finished the first triangle, and started the next, the pattern told me to skp (slip, knit, pass slipped stitch over knitted stitch). It's very similar to an ssk and I didn't like it. It took me three triangles to admit I had a problem, and if I didn't solve it, I couldn't finish the scarf. I mean really. It was giving me a horrible feeling in the pit of my stomach every time I got to the middle of a row and had to do a stupid skp.
It's not the actual stitch that was the problem, but what it did to the fabric.
Here, look:
The diagonal on the left is formed by a deep valley of knit stitches while the diagonal on the left has a raised column of slipped knit stitches
No offence to the writer of this pattern, who did not write the pattern with my yarn or guage in mind, and so I shall not name her, but this is really stupid. For me. For my yarn and guage.
It's stupid because this means that each triangle will be separated by alternating gullies and raised chains of stitches.
So I experimented a bit and found that a simple k2tog is my hero. It makes a nice flat, uniform fabric like this:
OK, kid, I get the hint, the scarf is stressing me out, and you are a cuddle monster. I get it.
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| This is the image of the scarf from the book, Hand Knit Holidays |
Except as I finished the first triangle, and started the next, the pattern told me to skp (slip, knit, pass slipped stitch over knitted stitch). It's very similar to an ssk and I didn't like it. It took me three triangles to admit I had a problem, and if I didn't solve it, I couldn't finish the scarf. I mean really. It was giving me a horrible feeling in the pit of my stomach every time I got to the middle of a row and had to do a stupid skp.
It's not the actual stitch that was the problem, but what it did to the fabric.
Here, look:The diagonal on the left is formed by a deep valley of knit stitches while the diagonal on the left has a raised column of slipped knit stitches
No offence to the writer of this pattern, who did not write the pattern with my yarn or guage in mind, and so I shall not name her, but this is really stupid. For me. For my yarn and guage.
It's stupid because this means that each triangle will be separated by alternating gullies and raised chains of stitches.
So I experimented a bit and found that a simple k2tog is my hero. It makes a nice flat, uniform fabric like this:
Now here is a testament to the type of knitter I am.
I could not continue knitting with the stupid skp.
I figured out k2tog would be better about 9" in to the scarf.
A more consumate, persnickity knitter might frog those 9 inches and begin another newer, more perfect scarf.
I am not one of those knitters.
I'm just going to continue with the overridden pattern, until I think I have enough yarn for two more triangles. Then I'm going to go back to the skp.
This may sound like a silly solution... stupid, even... but it is a lazy knitter's solution. And let's face it, that's what I am.
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