A new blog, a new project and renewed hope. Let battle commence. First I found a design in a magazine The Knit Camp Vest by Ann Kingstone and bought the Kit by Jamieson and Smith only to find there was no pattern. Not defeated yet - found the pattern on Ravelry. Good bless its armoury, downloaded the pattern and wept. Realising I would need reinforcements I gently persuaded a fellow knitter to join me in this quest to achieve our first Fairisle garment. So we gathered our weapons, Addi circulars/knit pro or Addi Lace and battle commenced. Firstly we had to learn a completely new cast on method - Twisted German Cast on to be precise. Pages of notes and a quick peak at a you tube video and we were off. Number of stitches required is 256 the number will be forever printed on my mind. This new cast on involved a long tail. Something that seems utterly beyond me and after 4/5 attempts I made a decision to cave in and do a simple cable cast on. One battle to the Kitting Gods. Next learn the Corrugated Rib technique. So far so good. It looked simple enough, 3 knit stitches in white, 1 purl stitch in pale blue. But no another look at You Tube and I discover that the way to do a proper corrugated rib involves knitting 2 rows before you actually complete one. So yes that's 512 stitches before one row is completed. This is a real challenge. Only 7 or should I say 14 rows to go until the Fairisle starts. The pain in one finger is already causes me to wince so may have to break for a while to do Mystery Blanket squares then yippee back to some more corrugated rib!!!
Catch up soon.
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