Strip of something

[afuna]

I'm basically knitting a huge drawstring pouch/bag right now (I hope to be able to fit my boxing gloves in it), and I'm cautiously cheerful so far. I'm at 320 stitches as given by the pattern, and I am at the point where I'm supposed to knit straight for 4". I'm thinking about playing with it and putting in eyelets and stuff (learned the basics of increasing/decreasing over the weekend! \o/ want to practice) but I can't find anything suitable (with the right number of stitches in the pattern) which I can adapt to knitting in the round *rueful*

There is also the issue of needing to adjust any pattern I find so it works in the round, rather than straight knitting. Feather and fan looked okay-ish to try, but I'm having difficulty with the second round; things not lining up not sure if it's because I made a mistake, or it's because I'd tried to adapt it to the round, hehehe.

So maybe I'll just stud the strip with eyelets, in a plain repetition, if I can't figure anything else out. I'll probably play with it a bit more first, though. (I have a hank of yarn which I'm using to try to mock stuff on. Casting on 60 stitches, seeing if it's possible to knit a pattern in the round, tearing everything down... So far nothing has worked! But it is kinda fun to try. But I want to finish my pouch. I am torn.)

Comments

[synecdochic]

Feather & fan in the round:

Multiple of 18 stitches

Row 1: Knit
Row 2: Knit
Row 3: (k2tog) * 3; (yo, k1) * 6; (k2tog) * 3
Row 4: Purl

If it's not lining up, it means that you either a). have the wrong number of stitches or b). are doing the wrong thing on row 3. Probably a).

[afuna]

Hmmm. I think it's because I have 320 stitches, which isn't a multiple of 18. I was hoping I could just add a bare spot/margin, but I can't get it to line up. I'll have to play with that a bit, I guess.

Thank you!

[synecdochic]

heh, yeah, you replied just as I was editing to read:

and of course now I notice you gave the stitch count in your entry. 320 stitches is the wrong number for F&F, that's why you're having problems. If you want to do F&F with that, you can do:

Multiple of 20 stitches

Row 1: Knit
Row 2: Knit
Row 3: k1; (k2tog) * 3; (yo, k1) * 6; (k2tog) * 3; k1
Row 4: Purl

I also really recommend stitch markers.

[afuna]

Soooo, I may have been trying to do something like:

Row 3: kx; ** (k2tog) * 3; ( yo, k1 ) * 6; (k2tog ) * 3; repeat from ** until desired length - margin; kx

I will try that later. (Or tomorrow if I am coding later *G*). Crossing my fingers; thank you \o/

[afuna]

*blinks* Oh, I think I got why everything was going really wrong. I thought yo = extra loop over the needle plus k1. So I was doing (yo, k1, k1), and of course it was never going to line up.

Heeheehee /o\

[synecdochic]

Aha! Yeah, Stitch & Bitch Nation's instructions for yo makes it really confusing, and a lot of people learned from them and spread it further. "Yarn over" really just means "move the yarn from back to front" -- yo/k1 is basically just k1 done with the yarn in the same position as you purl in.

Feather & fan is an easy lace pattern to learn from, too, because there's only one lace row, and there's always the same number of stitches on the needles.

[afuna]

*nods* I learned from the videos at knitting help. I am pretty sure it was my fault that I conflated the yo with yo/k1. (So embarrassing. But figuring this out and even the failing is really fun *laughs*)

I have been looking at some other patterns, and I think now that I know how to do the yarnover properly, some of them actually make sense now *g*

I'll put those off until my next project though. (I am very excited, hah! And I can hardly wait to finish this current one so I can try something new.)

[synecdochic]

I totally have that problem! It doesn't help that we have so much yarn that we bought thinking "oh, I'll do something with this someday", so every time I take down the yarn bins and go through them, I want to start something new with that yarn, or that one, or that one ...

(And I'm glad it's all lining up, and am happy to provide the help! It cracks me up that so many DW devs are also knitters -- I suppose it speaks to the same section of the brain.)

[afuna]

I couldn't find any yarn I wanted the last time I visited the yarn store that was close to me, so I ended up buying four sets of circular needles instead.

I justified it to myself with the thought that they were bamboo! And those are very rare here! And I didn't have any in those sizes yet! And ummmm. Yeah, I think it's an addiction.


Knitting feels so much like coding, it is not even funny. (Except for how it is, a little bit *grin*)

[synecdochic]

What kind of colors do you like? We have lots of yarn. :)

[afuna]

I may possibly be a sucker for deep blues or purples!

[synecdochic]

Ha! me too. :)

I'll check and see what I have. (Y'all are getting holiday bonuses anyway; I see no reason why yours can't also include yarn. *G*)

[afuna]

*eeek*

(I'm pretty sure you're too far to have heard me squee -- but if you did hear something, then that was me!)

[synecdochic]

Oh, is that what that was? I thought it was the cat ...

[synecdochic]

I should also add -- do you have a Ravelry account? If you do, check my projects (username synecdochic, of course) -- I have a few F&F projects that you can see.

[afuna]

I do! I will take a look! (I just realized I forgot to say: everything is lining up now, btw. Thank you for the advice *g*)

[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

Feather and fan should work fine in the round, you just need to remember to knit on row 2 and purl on row 4 (I cheated and looked it up here :>

For eyelets I'd do yarn overs and knit 2 togethers rather than increases and decreases... I googled for that and found this drawstring bag pattern which might be of use to give you some pointers - if you're having more fun just figuring things out for yourself, just don't clicky the links :)

[afuna]

Hmmm, I did manage to do it right, but I am having trouble lining it up for the second (since my border is much larger than the recommended. But I don't know if that has any effect, or whether I'm just miscounting *g*)

[afuna]

Yarn over is the increase, and k2tog is the decrease! *grin*

PS. Thank you for the links.

[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

ah of course... :) I don't tend to think of a yo as an increase as I tend to use it for decorative things and use other methods of increasing... :)