I didn’t have a recipient in mind, I just needed something to do while on a trip. And I wanted to see how Stripes worked out in this pattern. Pretty cool actually, a pleasing color scheme and a nice knit.
I did the picking up a little nicer this time around; by going into more of the stitch, it was a little harder, but it made a more clean edge on the back side than just picking up half.
| Began | April 23, 2008 |
| Finished | February 1, 2008 |
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| Edited | April 23, 2008 |
| Pattern URL | Garterlac Dishcloth by 1461 |
| Made for | gift pile; gave to Britni |
improving to be toe-up. toe is upside down, using kfb as the increases. Added a few extra stitches to the bottom of the foot to account for the slightly lighter yarn. heel will be garter short row (see http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/garter-toes)
knit along with Leah.
I started with the pattern for Pioneer and did the bottom part of it differently with a waistband done by picking up stitches vertically. I did the skirt twice because I was unhappy with how much increase I did the first time. Used more crochet on this than I thought I could!
mod to use my leftover slate + new dragonfly? dragonfly + black border + red lace. slate and red alternate for stripe? beads on lace, borders. Tip: for the stitch markers during the stripes, put one type of markers for the first half of the shawl (I did m1r ala Cat Bordhi toe increases), and…
swatched personal footprint concept on a single toe and didn’t like yarn. switched to yarn I liked, 2-at-a-time and one of the patterns further in the book that caught my eye as easy but not too hard to follow while setting up my footprint. yeah, yeah, I coulda done a plain version first, but you…
