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I finished my garter stitch swatch for my assignment. In addition to the requisite swatch I did three other exercises at the same time:
- long-tail cast on
- purl bind off
- slipped stitch edge stitches
Here are thumbnails of the photos. Clicking them will take you to my flickr photos.
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Which yarn did you use??
Elemmaciltur said this on May 24th, 2007 at 4:30 am
Hi! What a fun time I’ve had enjoying your fledgling episodes while on a long weekend for the US Memorial Day. I have some reports for you!
1. How do I feel about garter stitch? I don’t know if you or any of your listeners have any experience with perfectly made southern biscuits. Experienced hands can make this common, everyday few ingredients and turn them into magical, tender, flaky and wonderfully flavorful little beauties that almost don’t need any butter or favorite preserve.
It’s the same with garter stitch.
With garter stitch, which is ultra plain, the clever knitter will avail himself of the mathematical treats in garter stitch and the knitter can then let fully loose all his architectural musings. A book reviewer once said “Any knitter is either an architect or a decorator — you know which you are.” I don’t *fully* agree with that, but there is a case to be made for when you’re using an otherwise very plain stitching (minus some of the fun heavily variegated yarns like Kureyon, etc) then why not show off with clever shaping and directions of rows. I love garter stitch, for that reason, — it can be like a good biscuit — something I crave every morning when I wake up.
I first learned to knit in 1968 (I was
and was shown by a friend of my sisters. Again when I was 21 I learned at a dinner party and have been knitting ever since, now full time.
Keep up the great podcasting — count on regular comments from me!
PS: will you ever do you suppose post your toe up tutorial on your site? I’ve been given some totally wild sock yarn and I want to get started but I want to go toe up so if I start to run out, I can just do something clever around the tops.
Oh, sorry, my name’s Witt. I’m 46 and live in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley in Virginia with my partner and two cats. His knitting is about like your wife’s — they know how but don’t do it very much, although I must say he always has something on the needles to to plug along with on cozy evenings.
Cheers!
Witt said this on May 28th, 2007 at 9:43 am