Where to Get the Pattern

This pattern is no longer available from the designer or on Ravelry, but luckily it is available for free here. Don’t click on the blue download button. (It’s to download the Chrome browser.) Instead click on the black GET THE PATTERN button.

Important to Remember with Center Square ##

You want to finish the stockinette section so that you are knitting a right side row when you start the border rounds. So if you have an even number of seed stitch rows, 14 according to the pattern, you want to finish the center square stockinette on a wrong side row.

I did not do this right and just went around the way I had just come instead of undoing the 14 rows of seed stitch!

Fixing Errata

Relying heavily on mmessy’s project notes but put a marker on each side of corner stitch with different color markers on the beginning corner stitch of the round. I did not have any problems. I so appreciate the people who made this and identified the problems and the fixes. The pattern was no longer available on Ravelry, so I found it here. I have no idea whether it was updated at all after all the errata noted in the projects.

I found provisional cast-on instructions : here. It was easy to do the cast on, but when it time to just pull it out, it did NOT just pull out. Each stitch had to have the waste yarn pulled through TWICE. It took forever. Am I doing something wrong or is this just as good as it gets with a provisional cast on?? But I did have the stitches to knit directly into without having to pick up stitches, so the result was good even though the process was very annoying.

Picking Up Stitches Along Sides

I spent hours and hours trying to pick up with smooth, hole-free results. What I finally came up with is to pick up from each knob on the edge. A further trick is to pick up the left side of the knob. I could tell I got the correct part of the knob because the result was smooth. That did not give me the correct number of stitches so I kfb the needed number of additional stitches evenly spaced along each side. I spaced the stitches by using markers to separate each set of ten stitches and then kfb every two or three stitches as needed.

Bind Off

I thought the picot bind off in the instructions looked pretty bad, so I used the Knitty’s picot bind off, which is (cast on 2 using the cable cast on method, bind off 4) all the way around. I think this is a much more professional-looking result. The bind off row took 30 grams of yarn (1/3 of a skein).