The big holes are not dropped stitches they are created by (accidentally) knitting below the stitch. As it is nigh on impossible see the thing, that is hardly surprising. I was working with size 19 needles and a single embroidery thread!
I began working with what was described as a beginner's garter stitch shawl pattern - full of PSSO and YON and M1... not that any of the knitting codes phase me as I am a fairly skilled knitsmith, BUT they have to be joking as far as this stuff goes for a beginner. I had ten attempts as I wasn't going to be beaten and then... I was beaten.
I scrapped that and did a basic cast on, enough to look wide enough, and proceeded to knit one row and on the next row decrease one stitch at each end of the row. I repeated these two rows until I ran out of stitches. Now that's what I call a shawl for a beginner. By guess and by God it made a small shoulder shawl of sorts. Right scale for its size and a good scale for the fabric texture.
I might come back to it and put a fringe on. It will probably be OK for what I want it for, which is to hang on a hook on the back of the kitchen door as daisy's shawl for nipping back and forth to next door (home). It will only be a bit of screwed up something or other, looking vaguely like a shawl.
Just so you feel sorry for me and see how I suffer for my art, this is what my poor finger looked like by the time I had finished. Those nasty thin number 19 needles are lethally pointy.
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ReplyDeleteWelcome Carmen,
ReplyDeleteIt is all mended now, thank you, ready to try again!