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Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Just Shoot Me Now - A Masters Hand Knit Post

You would think that answering a series of questions regarding your knitting of the swatches would be pretty easy.  Basically Question #4  asks you to look at a couple of swatches and tell them whether you like the bumpy or the smooth side better in the cast-on and what you might want to do about those differences in a personal project.  Pffttt.....except the cast-on edge of the two swatches I'm looking at aren't looking different because I didn't do them as instructed!   As I said, just shoot me now - I get to do this swatch over (again) because I don't think they are going to buy into "let's pretend I really did it right".  I'm pretty sure they are going to want to see it done correctly.

And the question about bumpy and smooth, well heck the more I dug into the nature of this cast-on the more complex the answer.  Two hours later I know a whole lot more about this particular cast on and what options I have for manipulating bumpy and smooth cast-on edges.  Amazing what you can learn.

Now if I could just get the magic knitting fairy to show up and leave a whole new swatch under my pillow tonight that would be wonderful - hey, it could happen.

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