Comments on: i don’t like life when things get dull http://greendinosaur.net/puck/2008/02/09/i-dont-like-life-when-things-get-dull/ (now the world is suddenly wonderful) Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:03:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: puck http://greendinosaur.net/puck/2008/02/09/i-dont-like-life-when-things-get-dull/comment-page-1/#comment-2984 puck Sun, 10 Feb 2008 21:30:14 +0000 http://greendinosaur.net/puck/2008/02/09/i-dont-like-life-when-things-get-dull/#comment-2984 truthfully, i just did a regular (for me, shotgun) cast on with the two colors. it probably could be stretchier, but it's working just fine. i'm almost done with the third stripe now - it's currently drying because someone spilled a giant cop of hot chocolate into my unzipped waterproof bag. i'm so glad it hit the acrylic instead of the wool i dyed. exchequered is actually what got me thinking about double knitting - because the colors were even the same! but knitty almost always confuses me somehow. i'm bad at patterns, better with pictures, which is why the stitchdiva was helpful for me. :D truthfully, i just did a regular (for me, shotgun) cast on with the two colors. it probably could be stretchier, but it’s working just fine. i’m almost done with the third stripe now – it’s currently drying because someone spilled a giant cop of hot chocolate into my unzipped waterproof bag. i’m so glad it hit the acrylic instead of the wool i dyed.

exchequered is actually what got me thinking about double knitting – because the colors were even the same! but knitty almost always confuses me somehow. i’m bad at patterns, better with pictures, which is why the stitchdiva was helpful for me. :D

]]> By: Kate Perry http://greendinosaur.net/puck/2008/02/09/i-dont-like-life-when-things-get-dull/comment-page-1/#comment-2983 Kate Perry Sun, 10 Feb 2008 17:58:50 +0000 http://greendinosaur.net/puck/2008/02/09/i-dont-like-life-when-things-get-dull/#comment-2983 Hey, Your blog is on my Ravelry queue, and I can help with the double knitting thing. I felt like the instructions for double knitting on this pattern were the clearest: http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEspring06/PATTexchequered.html Also, I didn't do any kind of fancy cast on, I just did a one color cable cast on because it would be more stretchy. Hey,
Your blog is on my Ravelry queue, and I can help with the double knitting thing. I felt like the instructions for double knitting on this pattern were the clearest: http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEspring06/PATTexchequered.html
Also, I didn’t do any kind of fancy cast on, I just did a one color cable cast on because it would be more stretchy.

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