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October 28, 2004

Under the microscope

I typed out a whole lovely post ealier today. Then stupid internet explorer decided it was too brilliant and earth shattering to share with the whole world and I lost everything... So as a measly substitute, here's something I do sometimes when I make yarnovers. Maybe it will help you some time. Maybe it won't. When I was making my Baltic Sea Stole I wasn't really happy with the holes that were in the wiggly panels so I took some out. And then I wasn't really happy with the area above the holes. Sometimes it seemed like the yarnovers were making the stitches above them stretch out wider and then gradually go back to normal. I probably could have changed the way I was making my yarn over and that might have helped, but instead I worked a ktbl in the stitch above the yo in the next RS row. Here is a photo to illustrate my point:

Kind of looks like a close-up of some sort of...
thing inside your body or something.

So I actually think that this is pretty useful when you've got little buttons and you are just using a yo to make the hole. This keeps it a little firmer and... oh just try it...

I hope all of you out there are wonderful and happy. I have lots of projects going on and have to buy yarn tomorrow, so I should have some good stuff to show you then.

clarification: The yo was made in the RS row. Then I purled across the WS. Then the ktbl was done in the next RS row.

Posted by kate at October 28, 2004 12:49 PM