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 11:46 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-03-14 11:48 am (UTC)Actually, this is all my Evil Housemate's fault. She can't even knit, but she's willing to listen to me talk about mine, and she is encouraging me to make an afghan. And keeps coming up with ideas, usually late at night when I'm highly suggestible, and then next thing you know you have four cabled owls and cotton tied around your wrist with a 3.25 dpn stuck behind your ear...