A small effort has begun at starting Mermaid by Hanne Falkenberg. I am making colorway #6: light gray, slate gray and dusty rose:
The opening attempts have gotten me as far as the gauge swatch and beginning i-cord edge, but no further.
I went up one needle size, to 3.25 in order to get gauge. Once upon a time I would have said this was quite unusual, and it certainly would be were I knitting with cotton or silk, but my knitting tensions have changed in the past year or two, so nothing really surprises me anymore. Once I get gauge, I tend to be pretty consistent though, except for minor annoyances like that silly event with the blue baby kimono last week.
The i-cord is not perfectly neat but steaming might help, and I think I can straighten up any idiosyncracies while i pick up the stitches to begin the garment. I-cord is extremely tedious, and although it would probably come much more naturally with time and practice, it is not the kind of thing that I am certain that I want to force myself to practice.
It suddenly dawned on me, just this evening, that I have nothing to knit in the car tomorrow on the drive up to Pittsfield. I do not trust myself to pick up stitches in a straight line along the i-cord in the car, which means of course that I will have to do it tonight when we return from dinner at our local Mexican hole-in-the-wall.
Oh the price we have to pay to practice our art.
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I-cord and picking up stitches are probably my two least favourite knitting techniques. I appalaud your tenacity. It will be worth it. Mermaid is gorgerous.
I-cord and picking up stitches are probably my two least favourite knitting techniques. I appalaud your tenacity. It will be worth it. Mermaid is gorgerous.
I am stuck at the very beginning of the Mermaid pattern and looking for help. Does the “ridge” count mentioned in the first colorway knit onto the icord mean the number of ridges on one or both sides? e.g. if I am to decrease after the sixth ridge does that mean six or twelve actual rows? Help?!
I am stuck at the very beginning of the Mermaid pattern and looking for help. Does the “ridge” count mentioned in the first colorway knit onto the icord mean the number of ridges on one or both sides? e.g. if I am to decrease after the sixth ridge does that mean six or twelve actual rows? Help?!