Prelude | Part One | Part Two | Part Three
What goes down must come back up, so I had a reverse train journey from Newcastle to Glasgow yesterday. I added a bit more to the blanket but unfortunately didn’t consult my pattern properly and had to devote some time to fixes. More haste, less speed after all!
In this chart, not only do the branches at the end of each repeat grow, but there’s also a branch that creeps in at the start. I completely missed it and, when I noticed, chose to fix by dropping down stitches instead of unraveling back seven or eight rows.
I had to turn purls into knits and, to add a layer of challenge, the columns I was fixing were founded on YOs that were picked up twisted to make them as neat as possible.
Luckily I had a crochet hook in my bag (it wasn’t luck, actually, it was foresight). I dropped the stitches back and, when I reached the YO, inserted the crochet hook from top to bottom, then turned anticlockwise (unsure if direction is important) to twist the YO round the hook.
Then I proceeded to catch the loose stitches all the way up the ladder in the usual way. The twisted YO is very tight so I needed to get my needle tip under there to help me get the first one.
I did this for four columns, fixing 1, 3, 5 and 7 stitches respectively. And I think it looks alright!
That picture only shows three fixed columns, I got a bit ahead of myself. Making a photo tutorial on the train while experiencing post-event exhaustion is no mean feat.
This is the Olympic Forest Baby Blanket (Ravelry link) by Verybusymonkey Designs (Designer’s site). I’ve used up two skeins now, and I’m about half way through chart two of three. There are some cable stitches in the second half of this chart, as well as the rows growing bigger and bigger, so progress will be slower, but hopefully steady.
I’ve added this post to the Unraveled Wednesday linkup (a day late!), with thanks to Kat for hosting.
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