hurrah it's a new year! today i shall be my most boring and spend the day reading, knitting, and hrm... writing this post!
no resolutions here; no discussions of goals and plans. nope. instead, i am posting some corrections and changes to patterns:
herringbone tweed hat
those of you who have seen the ravelry pattern page should already know that i updated the notes to include the following:
Chart A and B crown shaping charts are wrong; they have 2 more stitches than they should. The correction: for each row, the two edge stitches ( left and right) should not be there; and the decreases should be done on the next stitch in.
I will update the PDF file asap.
friendship fingerless mitts
this is not so much a correction... since there's nothing wrong with the pattern. after knitting 2.5 pairs of these, i think this change will just look nicer. so when picking up stitches for the thumb, instead of picking up the first stitch from the bottom of the purl seam, pick up the first stitch next to the purl seam; you should end with two stitches picked up purlwise:
thumb, option 2
divide the sts on waste yarn among 3 dpns. attach yarn.rnd 1: from between the purl seam and the first dpn, pick up 1 st kwise, k5 (6, 7), p1, k5 (6, 7), pick up 1 st kwise, pick up 2 sts pwise (these 2 sts are picked from the loops under the caston st that became the purl seam). 15(17,19) sts total.
rnd 2: pm for beginning of rnd, k6 (7, 8), p1, k6 (7, 8), p2tog.
rnd 3-6: k6 (7, 8), p1, k6 (7, 8) p1.
rnd 7: BO all sts.
I bound off k sts kwise and p sts pwise.
now, i'm off to finish the last 0.5 pair!
