However now I'm done with the cream I will be doing the grey, The grey I'm doing in Basket weave. So it will have a little squares pattern on it. Now I started off using the pattern provided here: http://knitting.about.com/od/knittingglossary/g/basketweave.htm
Unfortunately I misread it and so I have gone a little wrong already :( I repeated the second part of the pattern so I have two rows of squares that are the same. However I decided to just carry on now that I have figured it out. So far it looks like this:
I'm using a different wool that certainly feels really different, it fairly rough compared to the bay soft wool I was using beforehand,but at the same time I think the contrast will be nice in the end! Hopefully now i have it figured out the rest will go a lot more smoothly :D I struggle with counting my stitches and coping with the chaos of a family around me but im learning to tell which stitch is needed by which side of the wool it is on.
For example when the wool looks like this:
My next stitch will be a purl. But if it looks like this:
Then my next stitch will be a knit. So really the onus is on getting my first row right and remembering when I've done 3 rows (for my pattern).
The pattern is going slowly for me (I'm so easily distracted!) I have made an error or 2 but i'm just rolling with it atm! At least it will be unique!:
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So Now I Have finally finished my Basket weave panel now I've been looking up a cable pattern to do my purple and final panel in! So i'm using approx 33 stitches per panel so I have chosen a 16 stitch pattern (so ill do it twice) Its a nice simple one so I don't get too overwhelmed this is the one I have chosen:
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Found here:
http://www.knittingfool.com/pages/stCatalog2.guest.cfm?StitchID=891&name=Bulky%20Double%20Cable&numofst=16&stplus=0&rows=10&rplus=0&sym=0
I shall be doing this in a dusky purple colour -
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