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February 16, 2006
Daisy
Okay I have the stomach flue. I am so not knitting on Olympia. Bad enough cleaning up after 3 little girls and spoiling a sick hubby while trying to knit. Forget doing so when I am sick myself. Well I am playing with yarn of course but doing so aimlessly. And my latest irk? Remember when I grinched about not being able to figure out a stitch for a scarf I wanted to knit from latest Rowan mag. Hmmm issue #38 so probably not the latest anymore but oh well. I tried again and have decided it is not me but totally nonsensical instructions. The pattern is #19 on pg 107 should you have the mag if not read very very carefully:
Cluster 5={slip next st knitwise dropping extra loops on previous row you purled 5 sts wrapping yarn thrice round needle for each}5 times, now slip these 5 sts back onto left needle I am OK so far as far as I can tell, working all 5 sts tog and wrapping yarn 3 times round needle for each st, work [K1, P1, K1, P1, K1] into these 5 sts.
Hubba Waaaaa? work all 5 sts tog as in k5tog wrapping yarn 3 times for each stitch so 15 wraps? Or k1, p1, k1, p1, k1 into 5 sts tog as in K5tog wrapping 3 times don't drop loops, P5tog wrapping 3 times don't drop loops etc? Or K first stitch of those 5 wrapping 3 times, purl 2nd st of the 5 wrapping 3 times etc? Either way its a freaking mess and shame shame shame on Rowan cause I know what a cluster stitch is and its is nothing at all like that. Its wrapping the yarn around a set of sts to have strands running along base FYI. So of course the first time I worked the pattern I clustered the 5 sts and then worked k1, p1, k1, p1, k1 into them which didn't give me the required extra sts for dropping extra loops on next row which I haven't gone into at all. Second time I clustered AND worked k1 wrapping yarn 3 times blah blah blah but it looked terrible. Third time I didn't cluster but did option 1 given above then fourth time as option 2. I haven't done option 3 but bleh.... Somebody clever and, you know, not sick explain this honking stitch for me
PS I was swatching for Project Spectrum BTW ~click on button on left column to find out more cause I am not looking up the link and oh yeah~ have a yarny day and knitterly evening. And yes I signed off without remembering my usual tag! gah Bloglines subscribers may now hate me forever more
Posted by Elka at February 16, 2006 03:53 PM
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i tooo would love the pattern for the isabella pattern! and info on yarn!
Posted by: :L, laura at February 16, 2006 05:36 PM
I sure hope you feel better!
Already swatching for Project Spectrum? wowy zowy! ;)
Posted by: Lolly at February 17, 2006 08:48 AM
WAY too confusing; I'd knit something else. Plenty of scarves out there to choose among.
Didja get IK yet? There's a lovely lace scarf (Evelyn Clark) with a weird maneuver like that in it. Seemed to me like a needlessly convoluted way to accomplish the goal of reducing 7 stitches to 5. (Though E.C. is a goddess and I'm sure she had a plenty good reason for it.)
Posted by: Beth S. at February 17, 2006 10:40 AM
Elka- Hope you feel better, but don't worry. While Rowan is yarn Porn of the highest quality, pictures are wonderful, great designs, you are not the only one to discover that their instructions are somewhat lacking in clarity. So it isn't you. Feel better?
Posted by: Lorraine The Knitting Hammy at February 17, 2006 11:24 AM
Aggghhhh! What does Rowan have to suck so much sometimes? Their designs are great, but the directions leave a lot to be desired.
Posted by: Cookie at February 17, 2006 04:00 PM
Did you ever figure out the cluster pattern on this scarf? I've been looking at it only a day, and decided to hit the net for similar stories of woe.
I've tried: tried k1 (wrap 3 times), p1 (wrap 3 times) k1 (wrap 3 time) etc through the five loops. But it doesn't look a thing like the photo. I tried knitting the five together, and ended up with too many decreases.
I have this beautful Rowan silk stuff that I picked up. It's perfect for a lacyish scarf, but I'm not a fan of really lacy stuff. I already tried another pattern that ended up being too commplicated for my short attention span. I think this one is actually easy if you could figure out what they're talking about!
Posted by: akaijen at August 30, 2006 11:10 PM