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: 2011-03-16 12:49 pm (UTC)I did the squares for the TARDIS top and bottom in the 'round', by casting on four times what the pattern said (for knitting a flat square up from one side), and doing the decreases every other round; but what I did was mark the 'corner' stitches, and decrease each side of those, so each side would be [K1 (corner stitch), SSK, knit to two stitches before next corner stitch, K2tog], and repeat four times. That way you don't get the 'bump' so much, but more flat lines of decreases aiming in towards the centre. For the top, I did a couple of 'steps' where instead of doing one plain round between decrease rounds, I did two - that made it peak more for a slightly slanted roof.
And, serendipitously, that's the second time I've typed up those instructions in two days - one of my friends on Ravelry is attempting a knitted TARDIS. So I'll leave you with the links etc I posted as a comment to her:
"I got the idea for doing the top/bottom that way from iamshadow’s (iamshadow21 on Ravelry) coloured blanket squares - http://www.ravelry.com/projects/IamShadow21/double-vision - which she did that way. http://knittingpix.dreamwidth.org/10443.html is where she talks about it (in the comments, I think?)."
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Date: 2011-03-16 01:00 pm (UTC)