New Baby
June 6, 2009
Marisela was born 6 weeks ago. She’s amazing. Well, just look at her! That blanket is the thing that I have made which is unfinished. She is the baby that is awesome.
Also, I’m going to teach a friend how to knit today. I’m starting her with the Drops Baby scarf. The link button is not available to me right now, so here is the URL: http://www.garnstudio.com/lang/en/visoppskrift.php?d_nr=b14&d_id=16&lang=en
Plain old garter, with some shaping. I’m going to have my friend do SSK instead of what the pattern calls for because….
(the following is a rant about the Drops Baby scarf)
I don’t get it.
It literally says “Now dec each side by knitting tog the last 2 but one sts on every other row until there are 4 sts left. ”
If I am only decreasing every other row and only on the last few sts, never decreasing the first few sts, then don’t I come back to the same side each time for the decreases? I could see if this had said “every other ridge”, the way EZ counts garter ridges, but that would be too cumbersome to have to track, I mean, this is a garter stitch baby scarf, not an all-out Norah Gaughan sweater! (I just bought NG’s volume 1 which is the thing I have been wanting for a long long time…) and my friend has to learn SSK at some point anyway, right?
Yet…there are hundreds of these things pictured in ravelry and not one single person has found the same issue. It has to be me. I’m going to do this instead: K1, SSK, knit until 3 sts remain, K2tog, K1. then just plain knit the alternating rows. I tried it, it works, that is all.
