I'm also really pleased with the yarn and the colors I chose. Sometimes I get really doubtful ... too bulky? too drab? too incompatible? But the camel and cabernet work beautifully together.
I finished knitting the solid hat -- Cascade 220 has a weight that I really enjoy and the fabric that knits up from it is even and very warm.
And then I began adding the cabernet color and started striping. I quickly realized that I've never learned properly how to make jogless stripes. The place where I was adding the new color started looking like a real mess, and I couldn't live with it and frogged it back to the beginning.
I didn't have time to run over to my mom's so searched the Web and found a great method for knitting jogless stripes which is so incredibly simple, I don't know why I hadn't thought of doing this myself.
I'm happy to report that all is well and I'm back on track.
I've had a problem with having crappy joins when striping too, but I didn't think that there was a good and somewhat easy way of doing that. Wow! That was such a useful video! Thank you for sharing!
ReplyDeleteI've never gotten the hang of jogless stripes.. I love the colors & stripes you're doing!
ReplyDeleteYour hat is looking great! Maybe I should try this pattern for Hubby . . .
ReplyDeleteYay! It looks great - glad to see the internet could help out.
ReplyDeleteThis hat is what brought me back to knitting. I must have made at least a dozen of them as I listened to books on CD. They are hypnotizing when you get to the crown and the decreases start! As for jogless stripes, thanks for the lesson!
ReplyDeleteFabulous! You're very good at sharing the tips you find.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for the link to the jogless stripes video. It will be very useful.
ReplyDeleteWow! bookmarking this! thx for sharing
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