My respect for pattern designers is now insurmountable. My sock design has gone through two renditions and tonight I'm going to try a third design. The first idea of continuing the basket weave and at the same time a multicoloured pattern that repeats over 15 stitches went the way of "no wonder no one has thought of this before - it looks awful". It just looked too ugly on the purl stitches.
So, I thought, let's do multi-couloured squares across two stiches within the basket weave pattern. Same problem - too ugly across the purled stitches.
So tonight I will get this right... I hope. Multicoloured pattern for 16 rows in st st and then continue the basket weave across the rest of the sock.
I've finished the back of the white sweater. Good thing I'm hooked on reality TV as knitting 47 cm of st st is a bit of a chore. And the front piece looks the same... sigh. As a reward for finishing these pieces I get to knit another lace sleave, though.
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I found Sheldon the turtle at Knitty.com. The caterpillar I don't know and the rabbit one someone gave me.
I;ll google it and see if I can find the catepillar. It looked easy and fast. However Sheldon is easy, but has a bazillion parts you have to knit and seam together!
Posted by lisa | March 30, 2007 6:09 PM
Posted on March 30, 2007 18:09
Here's wishing you luck on the 3rd try!
Posted by tiennie | March 31, 2007 8:58 AM
Posted on March 31, 2007 08:58
It sounds like its a lot easier to knit a pattern than create it! Hope you are lucky this go-round!
Posted by Jeanne | April 2, 2007 4:24 AM
Posted on April 2, 2007 04:24