This is my first attempt at a knitted on lace border. For those of you not familiar with the process, you knit the lace across the width of it, using the last stitch on the right side of the work (on the left end of the needle, go figure) knitted together with live stitches you've left on another needle, one at a time, to join it to the main body of the shawl or blanket. Basically, you're using one stitch from the main blanket every other row.
It's been a week, and I'm a little over halfway.
It doesn't help that I find this process so mind-numbingly boring that I keep distracting myself with other things. Like games on Facebook. Or crochet projects. Crochet flies along at warp speed next to this thing.
My good friend Iggystar sent me a crochet book (Crochet So Fine
) and enough Aunt Lydia's Crochet cotton to make the Dragonfly Shawl. I was not getting the process at all. Here is a quote from my Ravelry project page: "A friend bought me the book and enough Aunt Lydia’s crochet thread to make this shawl. Unfortunately, I just wasn’t getting the construction method. I knew I was making the side from the point out, but I just couldn’t wrap my head around the order of making the shells and SCing back across the top of the shell.
The written directions are worded very poorly in this regard.
Finally, I decided to try it in a thicker yarn, because I’m not normally a crochetter and my tension was looking all wonky and wasn’t helping. I’d ripped all the way to the beginning nine times or more.
Using the thicker yarn, and looking over some in-progress pictures here on Ravelry, I finally got it. You start with one shell (fan shape) and SC across. Then build the next row of two shells, then SC back across. Then three shells, etc.
The use of the word “row” in the written instructions is not helpful at all the way they worded it.
Since I only have the one ball of Chroma, but I like the way it’s turning out with the color progression, I shall have to purchase two more balls. Then I think I can tackle the version in crochet cotton."
Here is what the Chroma version is looking like now that I "get" it.
I love it, but this is going to be a warm version. It's not nearly as slinky and sexy as the mercerized cotton version would be. But at least crochet flies along, and I'll make all my mistakes on this yarn, which is fuzzy and forgiving, and will show fewer of them.
Finally, I decided to try it in a thicker yarn, because I’m not normally a crochetter and my tension was looking all wonky and wasn’t helping. I’d ripped all the way to the beginning nine times or more.
Using the thicker yarn, and looking over some in-progress pictures here on Ravelry, I finally got it. You start with one shell (fan shape) and SC across. Then build the next row of two shells, then SC back across. Then three shells, etc.
The use of the word “row” in the written instructions is not helpful at all the way they worded it.
Since I only have the one ball of Chroma, but I like the way it’s turning out with the color progression, I shall have to purchase two more balls. Then I think I can tackle the version in crochet cotton."
Here is what the Chroma version is looking like now that I "get" it.
I love it, but this is going to be a warm version. It's not nearly as slinky and sexy as the mercerized cotton version would be. But at least crochet flies along, and I'll make all my mistakes on this yarn, which is fuzzy and forgiving, and will show fewer of them.
No comments:
Post a Comment