\nGood metaphor for life, no?
\nMy current idiot knitting project is no different. I love having a project like this on hand. It’s easy. It’s mindless. It ends in a great finished product. I can knit it in a movie (and do. Frequently).<\/p>\n
My younger son actually picked this scarf\/shawl pattern<\/a> out at Dixie’s It. It also calls for a crochet border that makes no sense. Or at least it makes no sense to me.<\/p>\n CROCHET BORDER: Crochet a border with Fabel and crochet hook size 3 mm \/ C round the whole shawl as follows: 1 sc, * ch 3, skip 2.5 cm \/ 7\/8”, 1 sc, ch 4, 1 dc in first ch, 1 sc in the same ch, skip 1 cm \/ 3\/8”, 1 sc *, repeat from *-* and finish with 1 sl st in the first sc on round. Cut and fasten thread.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Now, first off, it tells you to bind off, then crochet this border around everything. Well, I don’t feel like being redundant so I think I’ll be casting off with the picot bind off Erica<\/a> used on her Jane’s Ubiquitous Shawl<\/a> from our What Would Madame Defarge Knit?<\/em><\/a> (because, seriously, I should put my mouth where my money’s at, y’know?).<\/p>\n I love this border.<\/p>\n It’s pretty and it’s easy and it looks how I want the crocheted edge to look.<\/p>\n Now, let’s go back to the crochet instructions<\/p>\n CROCHET BORDER: Crochet a border with Fabel and crochet hook size 3 mm \/ C round the whole shawl as follows: 1 sc, * ch 3, skip 2.5 cm \/ 7\/8”, 1 sc, ch 4, 1 dc in first ch, 1 sc in the same ch, skip 1 cm \/ 3\/8”, 1 sc *, repeat from *-* and finish with 1 sl st in the first sc on round. Cut and fasten thread.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Breaking it down: Then I found this edging from GwenAnne on Ravelry: Use 2.5mm crochet hook:<\/p>\n sc,(ch 4, skip 3 or 4 sts, sc in next st, ch4, dc in 1st ch of ch4, sc in same sc) – repeat!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I know the difference isn’t much, but this doesn’t pull my edge the way the other one did.<\/p>\n And, so… now the big question is (as always): will I have enough yarn.<\/p>\n I think that by binding off in picot, rather than binding off THEN adding picot all the way around I’m saving myself some hassle. At least I hope so. There’s one tricky bit about knitting—knowing when to stop when its time to bind off. No matter how long I’ve been knitting or crocheting, I will forever worry and kvetch about this. I never know if I’m right. I’m always guessing. Good metaphor for life, no? My current idiot knitting project is no different. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-fun","category-knitting","category-shawls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1855"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1861,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855\/revisions\/1861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Yellow Dog in Eau Claire, Wisconsin<\/a> on our road trip this past summer<\/a>. He saw it done in Fabel in an orangey-red colorway<\/a> (not my first choice) that looked kind of manly, so I knit it up for him. I was so taken with the pattern, its simplicity and its good looks, that I started another with some lovely bluish sock-ish yarn I had on hand.<\/p>\n
\nIs.
\nGorgeous.
\n![](\"http:\/\/www.garnstudio.com\/img\/shademap\/Fabel\/543p-2.jpg\")
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\nsingle crochet (I’m good with that).
\nChain three on a small hook–I’ve got an E that seems PLENTY small for my yarn, so I’m using that–but here’s where I start to wonder… chain 3 and skip nearly a whole inch?! My small hook’s 3 chain stitches do not equal an inch (2-1\/2 cm in the Norwegian instructions, so it’s not a translation glitch).
\nBut let’s continue.
\nChain 4. That’s fine.
\nDouble crochet in the first chain stitch.
\nI’m good with that. Clearly that’s the picot bump.
\nSingle crochet then skip a cm–I’m a little nervous about that. Feels like I’ll be making more of a hump or loop rather than a picot bump and my single crochet won’t reach a cm!
\nRepeat…chain three, skip nearly an inch again…So I fiddle.<\/p>\n
\nOr at least some yarn.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"