So after dealing with the knit stitch for days I decide, I don’t like this bulky waffle style for my husband’s first scarf, and I think, how do I do that one “stitch”, you know the one everyone is doing?
With some research I discover my friends that “that” stitch is called the stockinette stitch and its beautiful. I love it, so I try it, and when I do, it’s not so beautiful. In fact it’s looks like the equivalent of some old mans toenail that hasn’t been cut in years. It’s curling all up on all sides, and is looking all deformed. Why is it doing that? Surely I’m doing something wrong, I mean I don’t see others walking around with curling scarves! Or not in this style anyway.
So epiphany! I decide to give it a border because that will stop the curling right! Ok, to be honest it wasn’t my epiphany, that’s what the wizard who lives in my computer (Mr. Google) told me to do after I told him that the curling just wasn’t doing it for me. So borders, I mean it looks ok, if I’m doing a pot holder, which I’m not, I don’t want my husband wearing a pot holder and I know I have seen scarves made out of the stockinette stitch with no pot holderish borders, hell I own some.
So I go and grab one of my scarves and I realize its doubled, as in a tube that lays flat. WHAT THE HELL?! My mind can not even begin to comprehend how this it done. I’m thinking circular needles and you knit into the ending stitch somehow, but damn, I just got stripes down! I have to say I’m starting to feel a bit discouraged with my scarf skills, and little more than daunted at trying to knit a tube. I think I might try knitting my kids some simple scarves and maybe some dish rags and such for practice and come back to my Husband’s fancy knitted tube when I’m more confident!
Here are some pics of my first effort, which was frogged in favor of the one further down…
OMG and look stripes! Errr…ignore those funny bumps where I joined the color please, I obviously have more practice to do on joining colors. And the weird row of twisted stitches in the stockinette, it was only my second time doing this stitch so sue me!
