Joeli's knitting pattern

by **clairelana** on Sun Apr 18, 2010 8:50 pm

I'm going to attempt to do Joeli's longies :-?

Well, I'm going to do crops.
I've never even managed to cast on right before so I've not got high hopes :oops:

I just had a panic moment when I realised my wool is in skeins not balls. :giggle:

Then I remembered my bargin £10 knitting machine had a wool winder (not sure of its name) in with all the extra bits. I did also think about trying on that, but I think that might be harder to work out :hohoho:

So first job is to put my wool into balls, now its dry.

I was thinking about keeping a kind of diary on here. Should be a laugh :giggle:

Although no laughing when I get stressed :hohoho:

I wonder if I'll get past casting on :oops:

Wish me luck ladies :-?

by **clairelana** on Sun Apr 18, 2010 9:09 pm

I'm already stuck

I've not got past the swatch to measure how many stitches.
I'm quite proud that I managed to cast on though!

Right I've cast on and purled a row but every time I try I get a big loop at the end like this -

what am I doing wrong?

I decided to start again, this was only the swatch to count the stitches.
I tried casting on a few times and finally managed to sus it out.

I then cast on 144 stitches about 3 times :roll:

then got it right.
I knitted a few rows and my mum looked at it and told me to start again

I started again and concentrated more and managed to get past the icord row.
I wasn't happy with how it looked. I couldn't understand how I was going to get it to match up when I'd lost a stitch. :-?

Thankfully Joeli made me realised I hadn't done the yarn over part of the icord row.
So I undid past the icord row and now I'm 2/3rds round doing it with the yarn over :giggle:

A huge thank you to Joeli for this pattern and inspiring me to try :knit:

I'm amazed at how it looks, it's not 100% perfect but I'm happy. :wine:

by **clairelana** on Mon Apr 19, 2010 11:05 pm

Things are going slowley , but well.
I finally got past the icord row :giggle:

I've actually done my first short row.

I wasn't 100% sure how to do it from the pattern so I watched this - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyXWn2LL ... re=related

I'm 2 rows in to the stockinette stich rows that I have to do 1" of, before the next short row.

Here's what I looks like so far -

by **clairelana** on Tue Apr 20, 2010 8:23 pm

I was thinking about buying some longer DPN's I was using 4 -20cm ones.
The stiches kept falling off, so I'm now using all 5 of my DPN's which seems to be helping. I can't believe I didn't think about this earlier :roll:

Note to self - XL longies have more stiches therfore need longer or more needles :giggle:

Here's todays progress, so far - not much further, I'm sooo slow :roll:

I'm thinking about buying circ's for my next project.

by **clairelana** on Thu Apr 22, 2010 11:20 am

I've just realised that I'm kniting a row then purling a row and I'm suposed to just be kniting :cry:

I can't undo all that work, I just can't :giggle:

I'm going to start kniting now and see what It looks like. :roll:

by **calliflower** on Thu May 13, 2010 5:29 pm

It would look good if you just carry on knitting and purling (called garter stitch). From the pictures it looks good to me!

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