Today I celebrate finishing a 20cm square of knitting after four attempts using the yarn supplied, plus a trial using my own yarn.
Today I cast off the square, now the ends need to be sewn in before blocking, spraying with cold water and leaving to dry. The project has been quite a struggle for me, it was complicated to establish the number of stitches for the square had to be 20cms, the pattern was in blocks of 12, apart from the last 11 stitches. Additionally there was to be a border of 6 rows of garter stitch top and bottom and three garter stitches beginning and end of each row. Needle size was 3.25mmm, the rows were 12 border, 2 foundation rows and 56 rows of pattern as 8 rows completed the pattern.
The instructions didn't use standard knitting abbreviations, also I had never come across a stitch before one drops a stitch down four rows before, knitting it together with the four 'rungs' of the ladder formed.
Yes, four bottles of raspberry Lucozade, so needed after my Pilates class, we know how to live in suburbia.
I've never come across a stitch where you drop down four rows either. You have to be very brave to attempt that!
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