1) Casting on
2) Binding off
3) Fixing mistakes
4) Working in loose ends
I started making a scarf for Dave today, and I'm working on adding a new skill. Dave's scarf will be dark olive green, and I thought I'd do the ends in blue--same weight/brand wool, different colour. I started with the blue. I thought the casting on went ok, but once I got a few rows down and started a row in green, I could see the cast-on row more clearly. It just doesn't look great. The weirdest thing is that both sides look like a purl side. How does that happen? Now that I'm on with the green, the knitting/purling is looking normal. It's just those first 5 rows. I actually don't mind the way it looks, but I doubt that I'll be able to replicate it on the other side of the scarf. So should I unravel the whole thing and start over, or ignore my mistakes and chalk it up to experience? Just in case the recommendation is to unravel, I haven't detached the first colour yet.
Ideas? Suggestions?
Photos:
1) "Knit" side--notice the blue that looks like the purl side.
2) Knit side close-up
3) Purl side--both colours look like purl
4) Purl side close-up
2 comments:
That would be true if I'd written, "knitting and playing the oboe"...but alas, a knitting oboist, however busy she might be, is grammatically correct. ;)
Hi Emily--sorry--I didn't see this comment until today! Thank you! I will try that to finish the scarf. (Except...CO x sts--what does that mean?) I'm really so new at this. I'd also like to know how to do a border--do you mean all the way around, or just on the two ends?
Making reeds is so much easier.
;) Thanks again for the comment!
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