Argus Knitalong: Week 5

[laughingrat]

Sooooo, what's the haps? I see Kareila just finished hers! :) Anyone else?

(Still on Chart B myself. :))

Comments

[uninvitedcat]

Also still on Chart B. I went wrong again and had to rip back a couple of rows...

[laughingrat]

Did I ask you if it was maybe a charts vs. written thing? I can't remember. Some people strongly prefer one over the other.

[uninvitedcat]

I don't think it's chart-related. It seems to be more down to a moment's inattention when actually knitting, leading to dropped stitches, misplaced YOs, or whatever. Basically, I'm not yet good enough to knit on 'automatic' but that doesn't stop me from trying!

How about you? Do you have a preference?

[laughingrat]

Yeah, I really do! I seem to understand charts way better, maybe because I'm more pictorially-oriented? IDK. There was a big discussion on a laceknitting list a few months ago about people who need charts or written instructions, and it was pretty interesting. There were some neuroatypical folks with a variety of situations who really required written-out instructions, but since charts are popular nowadays and take up less room on a page, publishers are going with those almost exclusively.

[kareila]

My one caveat for Chart C is that having a yarnover cross a stitch marker on the pattern repeat made the eyelets on one side of the lace motif larger than the other. You can see it pretty clearly in the picture I posted here:

http://i900.photobucket.com/albums/ac208/milliemudd/IMG_3020.jpg

If I were to do it again, I would move all the markers one stitch to the right for that part of Chart C.

[laughingrat]

Oh, yeah, it will do that won't it! Did you put markers in between every repeat, then? I'm flying marker-free this go-round, but don't always feel comfortable with that. 0_o

[kareila]

Yes, it saved me a couple of times when perling back I counted to nine and realized I had forgotten a psso.