Learn to knit longies -- Important Update (06/08/10)!

Oh Mareth it looks fab!! cant wait to see the finnished product! LOVE the colourway!!

Joeli, I can't find the post about Dawn's sizes, how many to cast on etc I know it's here somewhere but I'm being dumb
She's about 24waist, 27 hip?

Would it make much difference if I missed out the short rows? My first turn is always nice, but the second one always leaves a hole

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Joeli,

Would it make much difference if I missed out the short rows? My first turn is always nice, but the second one always leaves a hole

Same here!

Beautiful colours I love the green and grey together.

I'm just past the difficult bit where the needles kept falling out and stuff! There's enough wieght to the knitting now to keep everyhting a bit more stable! So hopefully will make a bit more progress now, as I've been picking it up, knitting one needle - hating it, putting it down again LOL! Managed three rounds on the trot last night, so moving slightly quicker now!

I would post a pic but can't work out how to turn on the web cam!

Beautiful colours I love the green and grey together.

It's actually purple, not grey, but my photo taking skills are shocking

Beautiful colours I love the green and grey together.

It's actually purple, not grey, but my photo taking skills are shocking

Well my eyes are rubbish too - should probably go and put my glasses on

I've managed to knit loads today but now that it's all stockinette I'm not so happy with it , there's a gap between the stitches at the end of each needle . It's not noticeable when it's unstretched, but once I stretch it out to what it will be in wear, it's definitely noticeable and I can only imagine it'll affect the performance of the longies . Will the stitches kind of reorganise themselves in use, or is this now a permanent flaw? Is there anything I can do other than frog the stockinette section and put it on circulars instead of DPNs?

Can anyone help? Do I need to frog back to the ribbed section and start again? What length circs would I need? I don't want to open my knitpros yet, and only have 80cm other than that, is that too long?

I've managed to knit loads today but now that it's all stockinette I'm not so happy with it , there's a gap between the stitches at the end of each needle . It's not noticeable when it's unstretched, but once I stretch it out to what it will be in wear, it's definitely noticeable and I can only imagine it'll affect the performance of the longies . Will the stitches kind of reorganise themselves in use, or is this now a permanent flaw? Is there anything I can do other than frog the stockinette section and put it on circulars instead of DPNs?

Sorry, I can only get on the computer once a day now so I just saw this. If it is not noticeable when it's unstretched then it should even itself out after the first wash. I would leave it alone and keep going.

There are a few things you can do to avoid this. Mainly, don't pull super tight on the first couple stitches of each new needle or move a couple stitches from one needle to the next one every so often. But really, this will even itself out with practice.