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OMG, that's frustrating! Chocolate is in order - and lots, and fast!
"spampot" wrote in message ... I bet even Gwen heard that scream of frustration Down Under. I GOT the 378 sts cast on. I carefully wound up and knotted the leftover tail. Then I started the setup, which is weirder than anything I've ever seen. You slip alternate sts onto a second circular needle, making SURE you alternate. Well, I got this done, it took nearly half an hour, and then started the pattern...and found I'd slipped up about a dozen sts into the setup. Tried my best to fix it, then dropped a st, so I ripped out the whole friggin' thing and am starting the cast-on ALL OVER. GAAAAAHHH!!! SlinkyToy wrote: Better too much than too little - you can use the excess to fix that weird join later "spampot" wrote in message ... Success! Yes, I have more than a foot of the tail left, but that's fine. It's the alpaca fingering I picked up at the Md. Sheep & Wool Fest. Now...to tackle that weird join. SlinkyToy wrote: Well, actually I guess you'd be figuring the total needed for the cast-on. You *should* be able to determine the length used for the thumb loop and the length for the stitch, however. Just be ready to sacrifice a couple of feet of yarn so you can mark it properly. Lots and lots of yarn, or the nasty fuzzy mohair-type that I don't like to work with? Michelle who's got about 8" to go on the body of her Aran "SlinkyToy" wrote in message om... Hm. Cast on 20 stitches, mark the beg/end of the cast on and measure the length used? Figure from there how many inches (feet? yards? miles?) for the tail... Another option is to rewind your ball into a center-pull (easily done by hand, just make a slipknot over your wrist and wind it LOOSELY). Then you can tie the ends together and cast on... "spampot" wrote in message ... well, OK, that was a bit of a teaser; I have a question about the cast-on for my FiberTrends Lace Moebius (which my mother says was called a fascinator in her day). The pattern calls for casting on 378 sts VERY LOOSELY. OK, I can manage the VL part by using a larger needle tip (I'm using my needle kit), but it also says "preferably using the long-tail method." That's all very well, but how on earth could I possibly figure out how long a tail I'll need for almost four hundred sts?? So I started casting on with the plain twisted loop, and I can't keep the ball of yarn untwisted so I'm going to start over. If I were using a pull-out skein it'd be easy; I'd just knot the two ends and go from there, but this was a hank that I wound into a ball. I'm thinking of using the crochet cast-on, but what would you folks suggest? Any advice much appreciated! |
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Did better than that. Red wine, and lots of it! Then white. Heh heh.
I cast on about 120 sts, doing it directly on two separate circs this time, alternating sts between the two, and then we went off to see friends who'd planned a "Cold Comfort Farm" party. A hilarious movie, sort of a spoof of the D.H. Lawrence/Thomas Hardy school, with a London girl coming down to the farm to sort everybody out. I tied on lots of long fringed shawls and a long skirt and went as gloomy cousin Judith ("child, child, if you come to this doomed house...what is there to say?"). We did have chocolate cake with tea halfway through the movie! ObYarn: I took my wool/hemp-mix sock to knit as we watched. Time to start the heel on that one, but now that we're home, I may continue the moebius cast-on. To be continued, no doubt!! SlinkyToy wrote: OMG, that's frustrating! Chocolate is in order - and lots, and fast! "spampot" wrote in message ... I bet even Gwen heard that scream of frustration Down Under. I GOT the 378 sts cast on. I carefully wound up and knotted the leftover tail. Then I started the setup, which is weirder than anything I've ever seen. You slip alternate sts onto a second circular needle, making SURE you alternate. Well, I got this done, it took nearly half an hour, and then started the pattern...and found I'd slipped up about a dozen sts into the setup. Tried my best to fix it, then dropped a st, so I ripped out the whole friggin' thing and am starting the cast-on ALL OVER. GAAAAAHHH!!! SlinkyToy wrote: Better too much than too little - you can use the excess to fix that weird join later "spampot" wrote in message ... Success! Yes, I have more than a foot of the tail left, but that's fine. It's the alpaca fingering I picked up at the Md. Sheep & Wool Fest. Now...to tackle that weird join. SlinkyToy wrote: Well, actually I guess you'd be figuring the total needed for the cast-on. You *should* be able to determine the length used for the thumb loop and the length for the stitch, however. Just be ready to sacrifice a couple of feet of yarn so you can mark it properly. Lots and lots of yarn, or the nasty fuzzy mohair-type that I don't like to work with? Michelle who's got about 8" to go on the body of her Aran "SlinkyToy" wrote in message .com... Hm. Cast on 20 stitches, mark the beg/end of the cast on and measure the length used? Figure from there how many inches (feet? yards? miles?) for the tail... Another option is to rewind your ball into a center-pull (easily done by hand, just make a slipknot over your wrist and wind it LOOSELY). Then you can tie the ends together and cast on... "spampot" wrote in message ... well, OK, that was a bit of a teaser; I have a question about the cast-on for my FiberTrends Lace Moebius (which my mother says was called a fascinator in her day). The pattern calls for casting on 378 sts VERY LOOSELY. OK, I can manage the VL part by using a larger needle tip (I'm using my needle kit), but it also says "preferably using the long-tail method." That's all very well, but how on earth could I possibly figure out how long a tail I'll need for almost four hundred sts?? So I started casting on with the plain twisted loop, and I can't keep the ball of yarn untwisted so I'm going to start over. If I were using a pull-out skein it'd be easy; I'd just knot the two ends and go from there, but this was a hank that I wound into a ball. I'm thinking of using the crochet cast-on, but what would you folks suggest? Any advice much appreciated! |
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