Re-creating the hole
In yesterday's post, I mentioned a mysterious hole in my stockinette stitch. I played around a bit, and I think I can explain the hole. I'm not sure I can explain the whole reason, but I've got part of it figured out. Since the scarf I'm working on is really just a practice piece bound to be ripped again and again, I went ahead and tried out some theories on the scarf.
I took the apparent extra stitch as a clue to my hole and played with ways to make an extra stitch. First I tried knitting a stitch, passing the new stitch back to my left needle, and knitting that stitch again. Then, I tried the same thing in a purl -- purl one, pass the stitch back to my left needle and purl it again. Both of these produced some distortion in the nice neat vertical rows of V's and horizontal rows of stitches, but neither produced the hole I sought to repeat.
I then tried knitting an extra knit on two stitches in a row. I'm sure there is a fancy knitting word for the technique, but what I did was knit a stitch, pass it back to my left needle, and knit that stitch again, then repeat the process on the next stitch. This produced the hole and some distortion of the column of V's. While the symptoms aren't exactly the same as my original mysterious hole, I am satisfied -- for now -- that I am close to the explanation.
Now, how did I make that extra stitch? I'm a very inexperienced knitter, so anything is possible. My favorite theory is that I was ripping back and picking up loops and two completed stitches ended up on my left needle somehow -- except wouldn't that leave my yarn feeding into the piece in the wrong place? I'm a very novice knitter, but I think I would notice the feed yarn in the wrong place.
I spent most of today stretching fence. In the future, I am going to measure my pastures more carefully. All sections of fence will be 99' long so they can be fenced with a single 100 foot roll of wire. No trying to stretch a 100' roll to cover 105' of distance. My northeast pasture is almost complete. I have one very short section to finish -- and no splicing. When I went to help Chip with his fence, we encountered a number of problems, so we only got a little over 300' stretched.
In Tuesday's post, I said my goal was a new pasture by the end of the weekend. Outdoor work for the weekend has ended, and the new pasture is incomplete. Maybe Wednesday we'll move the alpacas in.
On the knitting needles: a practice scarf in cheap acrylic
On the spinning wheel: Pinero's fleece.
Nothing else in progress.
I took the apparent extra stitch as a clue to my hole and played with ways to make an extra stitch. First I tried knitting a stitch, passing the new stitch back to my left needle, and knitting that stitch again. Then, I tried the same thing in a purl -- purl one, pass the stitch back to my left needle and purl it again. Both of these produced some distortion in the nice neat vertical rows of V's and horizontal rows of stitches, but neither produced the hole I sought to repeat.
I then tried knitting an extra knit on two stitches in a row. I'm sure there is a fancy knitting word for the technique, but what I did was knit a stitch, pass it back to my left needle, and knit that stitch again, then repeat the process on the next stitch. This produced the hole and some distortion of the column of V's. While the symptoms aren't exactly the same as my original mysterious hole, I am satisfied -- for now -- that I am close to the explanation.
Now, how did I make that extra stitch? I'm a very inexperienced knitter, so anything is possible. My favorite theory is that I was ripping back and picking up loops and two completed stitches ended up on my left needle somehow -- except wouldn't that leave my yarn feeding into the piece in the wrong place? I'm a very novice knitter, but I think I would notice the feed yarn in the wrong place.
I spent most of today stretching fence. In the future, I am going to measure my pastures more carefully. All sections of fence will be 99' long so they can be fenced with a single 100 foot roll of wire. No trying to stretch a 100' roll to cover 105' of distance. My northeast pasture is almost complete. I have one very short section to finish -- and no splicing. When I went to help Chip with his fence, we encountered a number of problems, so we only got a little over 300' stretched.
In Tuesday's post, I said my goal was a new pasture by the end of the weekend. Outdoor work for the weekend has ended, and the new pasture is incomplete. Maybe Wednesday we'll move the alpacas in.
On the knitting needles: a practice scarf in cheap acrylic
On the spinning wheel: Pinero's fleece.
Nothing else in progress.
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