You all know that I love to knit. I'm more comfortable doing something creative with my fingers than sitting, waiting, or sleeping...:-)
Seriously, it's a sickness: Waiting to play something on piano or organ is torture. If I can be at the keyboard playing, I'm much more calm than pacing, or thinking. Knitting has the same soothing effect, calming, and I pride myself that patterns are my forte. Charts, patterns, k2tog, yo, no problem.
Tonight I realized that I'm not going to be able to memorize the lace pattern I'm doing for a baby (one year size) Jasmine Lace Edge Cardigan. The "lace edge" is a 12 row repeat of 13-16 stitches. It's beautiful BUT I have to follow the instructions for each of the 12 rows, every time. This is a first for me. I expected that after the first three or four times I'd be able to eyeball it and make it work. Surprisingly, I have no idea where I should "yo" to make the pattern... I've done the repeat 17 times, which will fit the bottom edge of the cardi itself, and next is more of the same for the edging of each sleeve. Not only do I not have a clue what comes next in the pattern but the number of times I've miscounted is embarrassing. THAT I do know: It's wrong, and I have to tink, and often frog rows. "yo"s are the worst when you have to frog, eh?
I noticed in Ravelry that when you look up a pattern, the pattern has been linked to blogs! I wonder how that happens? Do I have to link it to Ravelry? We'll see.
Don't forget to give up an hour of sleep!
Beautiful lace.
ReplyDeleteAbout the linking to a blog post on Ravelry. When you have blogged about a project, you can add the link to it on that project in your project page. It's up on the right, above "edit project details" named "post". Hope this was to any help ;)
and I'm so tired now that I will give up my hour and then fall into bed! The lace edging is lovely, you must be working on something in the back of your mind to not memorize it. The files get crowded at our age!! (and you might be getting a little older soon?)
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