The Masters Level 1 Swatch #2

Warning:  This swatch and the techniques used have not been approved by the TKGA Committee.

I have never knitted so carefully or so slowly in my entire life.  I have generally thought myself to have a good, even tension for your basic knitting, but knitting for the masters makes me feel like I am sitting in a theatre and someone has yelled FIRE at the top of there lungs.  All calm goes out the window.

I am also having to remind myself not to get ahead of myself.  I hate lace because I have no spatial ability and am slightly dyslexic.  I have a very difficult time keeping track of what I am doing, even with very, very simple lace patterns.  I saw a lace pattern somewhere in Level II and choked.  I would rather gnaw my foot off then do lace, but here I am getting ahead of myself.  I remind myself to do just one swatch at a time and it will all get done in it's own time.

I have not blocked or woven in the ends in either Swatch #1 or #2, so it was time to research the proper method of weaving in ends.  Well.....I checked out two websites, one that I just could not figure out. First it said that you weave in the ends on a Stockinette on the right side of the fabric.  Bloody hell.....I don't think so!  So off to website number 2.  She said the same damn thing!  Humpf......okay fine I think your both crazy but I will give it a try.  HOLY CRAP!!  They are both right and the end I wove into the front of the stockinette stitch swatch completely disappeared.  This technique is apparently a form of duplicate stitch according to TECHknitting.  I'm impressed and have listed both websites below.  I personally found the TECHknitting blog easier to follow (probably because I refused to believe the site I originally found).  The TECHknitting blog also has an index of everything she has written, a fabulous resource.

Swatch #2 unblocked

Things I have learned with this swatch:
     1.   Do a little each day as if it were a job (not onerous, but something one is committed to)
     2.   Set tiny goals, e.g. I will just do the 2 inches of ribbing and then go swamp a toilet
     3.   Listen to Pandora
     4.   When you look up a technique immediately write the reference down in your bibilography.
     5.   Look up everything.  I even looked up the garter stitch in a Sally Melville book (I love Sally's books and are my "go to" for most questions)

References used:
    

A guide to K1P1 Increases on YouTube   Ribbing Increases on YouTube 

How to weave the ends in   Weaving in ends in Stockinette and Ribbing  

How to weave in ends in Weaving in the ends in Stockinette and Ribbing