Argus KAL

[kareila]

Has anyone else started the Argus Shawlette yet? I just finished the "set-up" chart. I think I may have to go buy more stitch markers before I start the charts with pattern repeats.

I've made one tiny screwup so far - I did all my single decreases as K2togs before noticing that the left-slanting ones were supposed to be SSKs. But that's only three stitches, so I doubt anyone will ever notice. I'm planning to use a highlighter to mark all the SSKs before I continue.

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[uninvitedcat]

I've started it too - although I started it at the end of Feb and have only made it as far as Chart A.

I've made many many screw-ups so far! I've started over about four times, because I couldn't work out how to unpick to get back to the points of my error. Now I'm a bit better at unpicking, but I'm still making mistakes. Just this morning I got halfway through a row and found myself a stitch short of what the pattern thinks I should have. So either I've followed the wrong row on the pattern, or I've dropped a stitch somewhere, or else I've found another way to mess up. It'll have to wait for later to be properly investigated though.

I'm not sure I'm doing the SSKs properly, but I am at least doing them all the same way. So if they're "wong" then they're consistently wrong. (I say "wrong" because as a minimum I'm still knitting the two stitches together and getting the decrease.)

I'm using knotted wool in a contrasting colour for my stitch-markers. Cheap, but it's working so far. And if I need some more, I've a whole ball of wool I can snip up!

[kareila]

Did you see this other post from yesterday? It has a link to a video tutorial site that has helped at least one other person figure out SSK. :)

Thanks for the stitch marker idea, that sounds like just the thing.

[uninvitedcat]

I saw the link to the tutorial site, but haven't had a chance to check out the videos yet. I suspect that will become a favourite!