Saturday, September 22, 2007

Ribbit, Ribbit

This was my first attempt at stripes. The front kinda looks ok:

But the back went a bit funny! Somehow i moved my marker over so the rows werent even, not to meantion the short rows i had to do which i kinda changed colours half way through, not sure if that was a good idea:

You can kind of see a line up the middle of the back, thats where i would wrap the colour i wasnt currently using when i got to it. Im thinking maybe that i should just break the yarn & work in the ends rather than doing that cause it started looking a bit funny.

Anyway, i frogged it all! i was trying to knit it on double pointed needles because i didnt have the right size circular needles (long story there, but basically i bought needles from lincraft marked 4.5mm that were actually only 4mm then went back & got another pair that really were 4.5mm but you couldnt knit with them because the needles were to long & the bit that attaches them was to short - really weird!!!).

Im now attempting to knit a soaker, but no stripes this time, i decided to make it thicker & use both colours at once...stay tuned to see if its a total disaster ;)