When I completed this square I was so very pleased. It had been quite a challenge, but I managed to deal with all those stitches slipped with yarn in back and with yarn in front. I bound it off and proudly held it up for my husband to admire. He’s a muggle, but he’s polite [...]
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Here’s another LTK mosaic square. If you’ve seen the photo in the book or knitted the square yourself you may notice that there’s something not quite right with this square. that’s because I’m a left-handed mirror knitter. See those little stair steps? The photo in the book shows those stair steps [...]
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This square required a new skill for me. I’ve never done mosaic knitting before. This involved the feat of slipping stitches not once, but twice (on two passes) before knitting them again. I thought it couldn’t be done. I thought my square would come out with tight rucked up ridges. [...]
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This square was lots of fun to knit and I love the tiny flowers created by knitting into the stitch below. I’m a little conflicted over it though. The perfectionist in me wants to rip it and knit a better one now that I understand how the stitch pattern is worked, but the [...]
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Man was this one fun to knit up. I now have _no_ fear of knitting or purling in the back of a stitch. This ‘ghan is definitely improving my knitting skills.
Speaking of knitting skills, my first sock class was this past Friday. Our instructor is patience itself–and she has an impressive collection of socks to [...]
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This is my favorite square so far. Watching the diagonal ribs shift as the square progressed was quite satisfying. Particularly since it looks more complicated than is. The other side of the squiare looks the same with one exception–the ribs tilt the other way. This pattern would make a lovely scarf. [...]
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This square was not fun to knit. It took innumerable trips to the frog pond during that first 20 row repeat. Finally, DS, dear soul, pointed out the flaws in the photo of this square in the book. I took a deep breath and said “Okay, screw it, [...]
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