Knitting a square & joining things.
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knitting(Forgive me, this is going to be a stupid question)
I'm trying to join some other pieces together by picking up a side from each and knitting a square in the middle, decreasing towards the centre.
But I'm struggling with the "How many and how often?" part of decreasing. Doing sl1 k2tog psso at each corner still gets me a lump in the middle.
How would you decrease to make a flat square?
Second, hopefully less daft question - how do you go about joining pieces using knitting? I'd like to make an afghan out of blocks, but I'd rather not do that amount of sewing if possible. Which is where I ended up on the problem above. All the patterns I've found so far are either log-cabin type where it gets bigger and bigger, rather than something you can work on in small pieces, or they're pieces sewn together after.
I'm trying to join some other pieces together by picking up a side from each and knitting a square in the middle, decreasing towards the centre.
But I'm struggling with the "How many and how often?" part of decreasing. Doing sl1 k2tog psso at each corner still gets me a lump in the middle.
How would you decrease to make a flat square?
Second, hopefully less daft question - how do you go about joining pieces using knitting? I'd like to make an afghan out of blocks, but I'd rather not do that amount of sewing if possible. Which is where I ended up on the problem above. All the patterns I've found so far are either log-cabin type where it gets bigger and bigger, rather than something you can work on in small pieces, or they're pieces sewn together after.
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Date: 2011-03-14 09:03 am (UTC)As for the second question: From what I'm gathering you want to knit each square separately and then join them together without sewing. My first thought was to use some crocheting. I'm thinking adapting a crochet bind of. That when you pick up the stitches with the crochet hook you go through the side of the piece you want to attach it to with the crochet hook, pull the stitch trough and then do the crochet stitch on the other side (hope that makes sense). To get enough live stitch edges you might want to do a cast on that gives you another live edge. Or you can just simply crochet two sides together (place them with the front facing each other and do a row of chains through the side.)
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Date: 2011-03-14 09:08 am (UTC)Yep, that's what I'm after - from what people are saying, looks like I shall have to learn to crochet!
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Date: 2011-03-14 09:16 am (UTC)In garter stitching the ratio between stitches and rows are about 1:2 therefore the decreases to get a triangle is one in each corner every other row, but for stockinette this ratio is closer to 1:1.5 (I got this from checking the gauges printed on yarn) so to get an even triangle you should do a decrease for every two out of three rows. Might be worth a try...
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Date: 2011-03-14 03:34 pm (UTC)take over the world!!!plot what I'm actually going to do with my afghan - I have ideas, but nothing concrete yet. I might actually have it finished by November...