12-24-2015

This started off a bit rough, getting into a groove with the pattern wasn’t easy. I always knit too tight and this was no exception. Then somehow my cast on slipknot came undone and the first cast on stitch came unraveled. I had to just sort of guess how to fix that debacle but I think it turned out ok. I will probably be the only one to notice it when the thing is done so who cares!

12-25-2015

Loving the colorway, loving the fabric being created.

This is a good project for teaching me to have relaxed hands. It’s also going much faster than I anticipated. I’m a little worried about the curling but I knew it would happen and will aggressively block.

01-31-2016

Just noticed last week that I twisted the join…ugh! Oh well, I was always planning to wear it doubled looped anyway. Also, I made some kind of error and have a hole with no idea how to fix it. This stitch pattern is weird so I may just have to take some waste yarn and kind of darn over the hole. I’ll just have to see what I can come up with when it’s done.

02-11-2016

Binding off! Interesting note: I’m getting a net gain of yarn on the bind off when I snug the stitches after the pass over bit, so I could have knit another row and done the bind off with less than a yard of yarn left and been just fine.

01-06-2017

After staring at this for almost a whole year, I came to the conclusion that it just wasn’t what I wanted. I may in the future attempt this again but I think I’d make the following changes:

• Provisional cast-on
• Double the width
• Fold over backwards, join to cast-on (make a tube to eliminate curling and be fully reversible)
• Block aggressively

Definitely something to try small-scale first. May even be worth trying to knit as a typical tube scarf, smaller cast-on to manage and just keep knitting until the length is right or I lose the will to continue. Oh the swatching!