Cascade Baby Alpaca Chunky
Carribean Colorway
US 10 circ and dpn's
For my MIL, but modeled by DD.
There was a bit more leftover from this skein. It was a gift from a Doc I taught to knit. Pretty color, but not me, so for a gift it went. I got a bit carried away on the strap and had to frog it a bit. I think the buttons are perfect too.
Hey, you know the hint of doing a reverse purl wrap after a knit stitch, you know to help keep your ribbing from spreading out. Does anyone else do this? I have to almost all the time, but what I dislike is how it seems to spread out the purl stitches so they don't look tight. I've been having this problem for a bit..some yarns it doesn't show, this one it does..well to me, and it bugs me, but not enough to frog! Any new hints would be greatly apprecitated, especially as I still have another cabled hat in progress and one more to go OTN.
I have survived month 1 of the SAM 5 Kal...whew...and the best news I got yesterday...um..my Tilted Duster bodice fits...now fingers crossed for the rest..you know when I thought my Brown Gable fit...it didn't...so I keep hoping I can change the 2 sweaters knit, 0 fit to 3 sweaters knit, 1 fits...stay tuned!
19 comments:
It's adorable! Waiting with bated breath for the Tilted Duster shots. I should use you as inspiration for finishing Tangled Yoke.
You know its a good pattern if you made two of them!! I may just need to make one for my sister for her birthday!!
Its so cute!!
it looks great! I need to make me one of these! Off to look through my stash to see if if I have any yarn chunky enough. :)
Very cute! Love the bright color!
Hmmm, I can offer no help on the reverse purl wrap because...er...I didn't know about the reverse purl wrap until you mentioned it.
Looks great in that color -- it really shows off the cabling. Can't help on the reverse purl -- but thanks for the tip, I have that problem too.
Love the hat! The blue is so cheerful.
I've never heard of this reverse purl wrap thing.
Sweet hat!
And I can't wait to see more of your Tilted Duster.
Very cute hat!
I'm glad you made it through the first month! You're doing a great job.
What technique is this? Anything bigger than K2P2 rib gets too spread out. I'm intrigued! :)
I get the gap between knit and purl stitches too. I found a post on Ravelry about "fibbing" and I use it anytime I can now. *Only works when "in the round" I found out the hard way* I'm not sure if it'll work with cables, I'm not that advanced. Fibbing is done by knitting all the stitches then when you get to a colum that should be purled, just drop the stitch down and pick it back up as a purl with a crochet hook. I usually knit the first 2 rows in pattern then knit the rest until 1 row before decreases. Hope this helps.
That is the best looking Si' Capitan I've seen yet! Hope you are doing well!
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My ribbing will spread out if I'm not careful because I naturally purl looser than I knit. So I make it a point to keep the knit stitches loose and the purl stitches tight, and I really pull tightly on the first pull stitch. It helps to avoid laddering as well.
Cute hat. Congrats on the Tilted Duster!
I love these hats!
CUTE!!
I bought the yarn to make one and, can you believe it, I don't have #10 DPNs!!!
So Kewl!!! She looks so cute in that! :)
I just finished a couple of these too! Very nice!
Love that coloure, as much as hat!
Your Tilted Duster will fit fine. I have spoken.
(you know, like I have anything to do with it.)
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