April 5, 2025

Flowery zippered cotton bag with 2 lbs. of variegated yarn just inside woolroom. Printed pattern. No needle.

April 6, 2025

Swatch begun at Sunday Morning Knitting.
23 stitches cast on for three repeats.
I should dig out the book, because my typed-in-2013 copy merely states slip stitch, with no mention of yarn position. For now, I’m assuming the bar is on the wrong side.

April 7, 2025

I got the book out and looked at the page that describes slip stitches:

“Slip a stitch as to purl” is used when working a pattern stitch, so that on the next row of the pattern, the slipped stitch will be on the needle in the correct position for knitting (or purling). To do this, insert right needle into stitch on left needle as if you were going to purl it; but instead of purling, slip the stitch from left needle to right needle.

So, I‘m going by the clear COLOUR photo in the book and on the dust jacket. On the knit rows, slip wyib; on the purl rows, slip wyif. In other words, the bar across the slipped stitches is always on the wrong side of the fabric - as I have been doing.

April 8, 2025

0425 hrs.
I am very happy to have allowed ages to elapse between first seeing the pattern in the book and actually swatching for it.

The ‘feature’ that’s interesting is also the reason I won’t ever knit the blanket. Those columns of loosely lengthened slip stitches (3-rows) are just begging to be snagged on a finger, button, cat’s claw, etc. I guess I hadn’t really thought about them, back when I printed out the pattern and set up the project bag in 2013. I’ll find a more suitable pattern for my two pounds of variegated yarn, and will consign the printouts to the recycle bin.