Comments on: Back to Laboring

By: Beth S.

Beth S. — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 12:08:52 +0000

I just bought that book yesterday! I looked through it in the store, put it back, left, had lunch, and then went back in because I regretted leaving it on the shelf.

I really want to make the Latvian Fingerless Mitts. So pretty! And the Lopi ski sweater, though I’d have to change the collar.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 18:26:40 +0000

I think I’ll just commiserate on that faux seam stitch, because if I think too hard about it, I’ll have nightmares of the contortions!

By: Carol

Carol — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 16:42:54 +0000

Ahhhhh!!!!

By: Deb

Deb — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 13:34:38 +0000

My only suggestion – since I’d never dare attempt the sweater – is “hang in there”! Nice eh?

By: Kristi aka Fiber Fool

Kristi aka Fiber Fool — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 11:09:26 +0000

It is a pretty good book, isn’t it? I just got to flip through it yesterday and was quite impressed. Overall it tended to have a pretty decent size range as well. I think it is going on my wishlist.

By: mamacate

mamacate — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 09:42:23 +0000

I carry both colors in my left hand, so don’t have an answer for you. Anne had an interesting suggestion about placing the stitch marker on the KAL. I don’t bother with stitch markers–I had no problem noticing the purl column (though haven’t hit the pattern on the body yet, so it was pretty obvious given that I was using magic loop and had to change needles).

Thanks for clarifying where the fold was in the pattern. My brain was apparently not quite functioning, and I was putting my decreases at the end of every row. It’s perfectly fine, I think, but for some reason that didn’t hit my brain. So thanks for that…

By: Eva

Eva — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 06:36:59 +0000

I would do the stitch dropping thing too. That is what EZ does in her books and I think it would be a lot faster and neater than to do all the juggling you’re doing now

Cheers Eva

By: Caroline M

Caroline M — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 06:03:30 +0000

I’d knit them and then fix them to be purls with a crochet hook later. You could try it with three rows to see how much work it was to make them run before you committed to doing the whole seam or even carry on like that and do the seam at the end of each knitting session. I would have thought that any sloppyness that you’re currently getting in the seams is going to block out and let’s be honest – no-one but you is going to be looking at them.

By: Judy H.

Judy H. — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 01:53:25 +0000

Right-handed purls in colorwork do suck, big-time. No real suggestions, except to say Michelle’s suggestion, above, might be difficult in shetland wool. The stuff sticks to itself so nicely that getting it to run down would probably be a pain in the you-know-what.

By: Carrie K

Carrie K — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 23:35:28 +0000

Oh, I can barely do a purl stitch right handed nowadays and not a prayer could I add colorwork into it.

A new knitting book! Awesome.