Nice easy to memorize pattern, relaxing to knit once I got all 481 stitches on. It’s going to be like a gossamer cape, oh so sweet and light and airy.
I had some trouble initially when I dropped a stitch at the yarn-over site…and it ran too much and unraveled more of the diagonal lacy part than I could figure out how to repair, so I frogged it back to the beginning.
This time, I’m using a lifeline, but on the straight needles, especially so many teeny stitches crammed onto a shortish straight…I’m avoiding the lifeline. I currently have one in, like 20 rows ago! l
New plan -- switch over to a circular needle just to get the lifeline in and then switch back if I find the circular joins pull on the knitting.
New plan of a circular was superior. With that number of stitches, working on the straights was too much packing on and off the needle. I have had a little trouble with dropped stitches being hard to repair in the lacy parts, so even tho it is a simple pattern, I am maintaining the lifeline. Likely wooden needles would have been a better choice for me.
Thinking this through, I started jonesing for a Knitpicks Options circular that would let me thread the lifeline through the needle itself, but I’m using a size 3 needle, and the ones that do that are the interchangeables that start with size 4! So close!
Helpful tips:
- Have a couple of side projects so you can get the gratification of finishing something!
- Add stitch markers for the start of the five stitch garter border, easy to forget.
I experimented with a couple of bind offs. I cast off by knitting two and then knitting the two stitches together, knitting one and then knitting the two stitches together. That was neither too loopy nor too tight.