I am bowled over by this video and this series. I cannot think of a circumstance that goes unanswered and I have spent years researching how to achieve this pattern maintenance while shaping. What a gift you are giving us. I am eager to see the finished purple cabled sweater, too!
This is an incredibly timely video for me! I just inherited a couple of unfinished knitting projects (my grandma passed at the end of May) and one of them involves this exact thing. Going to rip back what I've already attempted and do it again with this knowledge in hand. Thank you!
One thing to bear in mind regarding a purl decrease: the "bead" that it produces is larger than a regular purl because it contains two strands of yarn. I tend not to use P2tog for shaping for this reason (if I can help it).
On what device do you use stitchmastery? It looks like you’re interacting with a touch pencil. It looks more easy. I use it on pc and find it cumbersome at times. For instance selecting larger shaped areas at once. I also wish there was a function to fill out a repeat into a certain area.
I create my charts on my desktop computer. The image I'm drawing on with my Apple pencil on my ipad is a jpg file that I exported from StitchMastery and then moved to Goodnotes on my iPad so that I could draw on top of it for the purpose of the video. (I created multiple charts, each in a different state for the demonstration, I wasn't editing the chart on camera as I was filming.) A different option would have been to export the different charts as svg files, import them into my word processor so that I could resize them to fit a sheet of paper, print them, and then drawn on the paper copy with a marker for the video. Given the number of mistakes I typically make while filming, I would have had to print out multiple copies for second or third takes of a given explanation.
It's common to have it written in the pattern, but European patterns might expect you to know to work the selvedge differently (not in a specific way, necessarily, but they might expect you to know to pick a selvedge stitch, and not mention it in the instructions). In vintage patterns there often was an assumption that you would add a selvedge stitch at each edge, and the instructions for how to work a row were based on what to do between the two selvedge sts.
I am bowled over by this video and this series. I cannot think of a circumstance that goes unanswered and I have spent years researching how to achieve this pattern maintenance while shaping. What a gift you are giving us. I am eager to see the finished purple cabled sweater, too!
Fascinating video with so many good points. Thank you for sharing your wealth of knowledge.❤
Thanks for making such a complete playlist, I'll refer to it over and over again.
Thanks Rox. You explained everything very well. I appreciate it so much.
Great episode!
You are such a fantastic instructor! Thank you!
Wow! Such useful information, and your visual-verbal approach is clear, as it always is. This will be a beautiful sweater!
Thank you. As ever, i am reeling. So much info! If i ever get more advanced, i hope i can find this again.
Fabulous tutorial. You're a wonderful instructor. I love this series and will try this out with some swatches. Thanks very much!
This is an incredibly timely video for me! I just inherited a couple of unfinished knitting projects (my grandma passed at the end of May) and one of them involves this exact thing. Going to rip back what I've already attempted and do it again with this knowledge in hand. Thank you!
And there I was wondering how to make increases and decreases while sequence knitting! Thank you for another wonderful video.
Thank you so much.
Thanks!
Thank *you*! :-)
One thing to bear in mind regarding a purl decrease: the "bead" that it produces is larger than a regular purl because it contains two strands of yarn. I tend not to use P2tog for shaping for this reason (if I can help it).
❤❤❤
On what device do you use stitchmastery? It looks like you’re interacting with a touch pencil. It looks more easy. I use it on pc and find it cumbersome at times. For instance selecting larger shaped areas at once. I also wish there was a function to fill out a repeat into a certain area.
I create my charts on my desktop computer. The image I'm drawing on with my Apple pencil on my ipad is a jpg file that I exported from StitchMastery and then moved to Goodnotes on my iPad so that I could draw on top of it for the purpose of the video. (I created multiple charts, each in a different state for the demonstration, I wasn't editing the chart on camera as I was filming.) A different option would have been to export the different charts as svg files, import them into my word processor so that I could resize them to fit a sheet of paper, print them, and then drawn on the paper copy with a marker for the video. Given the number of mistakes I typically make while filming, I would have had to print out multiple copies for second or third takes of a given explanation.
Do you always add a selvedge stitch at each end when you knit flat, or is it commonly written into the pattern?
It's common to have it written in the pattern, but European patterns might expect you to know to work the selvedge differently (not in a specific way, necessarily, but they might expect you to know to pick a selvedge stitch, and not mention it in the instructions). In vintage patterns there often was an assumption that you would add a selvedge stitch at each edge, and the instructions for how to work a row were based on what to do between the two selvedge sts.
@@RoxanneRichardson Fascinating! Thank you for taking the time to answer my question.
Wow! Did you make that top?
The one I'm wearing? It's a shirt dress. There's info in the video description regarding the pattern, etc.