Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Omelets or Scrambled Eggs???

When I was learning to make omelets in my high school cooking class our teacher shared a great secret with us. If you mess up you just change the omelet into scrambled eggs and no one knows that great scrambled eggs weren't your original intent. (Okay maybe this isn't a great secret but my cooking skills don't go much further than great scrambled eggs.) 


I'm not sure that my Omelet shawl will be as easy to save if I mess it up. I'm struggling with my rows continuously being one or two stitches off. The stitch isn't in the logical place for it to be and it creates more problems when I frog so I've just been adding or decreasing at the end of each section as needed. Maybe not the best solution, but so far it's working. 


I have 13 rows left of chart B and then I move on to the next chart. I'm hoping that since charts C-E are each knit once the rest of it will go pretty quickly. I have a month and a half to finish this shawl and am really starting to feel the time crunch. (I know, I have a twisted sense of deadlines. This is also why when this shawl is finished I'm casting on Christmas presents.)

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  1. Your Omelet Shawl is looking wonderful, and the increasing you are doing seems to be working :)
    I look forward to following your progress.
    x
    Natalie
    Marigolds' Loft

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  2. Looks gorgeous to me! I know what you mean about time pressure though; I've been fretting a bit about Christmas too. Especially as I've signed up for a craft show :)

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    1. Wow! I struggle enough with gifts and I don't make very many of those. I can't imagine doing a craft show at the holidays.

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  3. oh my goodness, A-E charts?? that is a lot of charts.. it looks wonderful.

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    1. Most of the charts are only 10-20 rows so it really isn't that bad. Thanks for your comment.

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  4. I have my eye on that pattern and you're knitting with almost the same yellow that I'm knitting with :) Lovely shawl!

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    1. I'm using KnitPicks Shimmer in Buttercream. I'm loving how it's knitting up.

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  5. from what I can see it looks lovely, it is a really great colour. Has anyone else on Rav mentioned having the same issue? maybe there is an error in the pattern? I've had this happen a few times and was so frustrated I kept making mistakes till I realized it was a typo.

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    1. Thanks for the suggestion. I haven't seen anything on Rav about it. Since the counts tend to come up wrong in only one of the four sections I suspect the problem is with the knitter not the pattern. It's my first time doing lace so it's probably just lack of experience.

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