kitchener fail, part two: now with pictures!

[geeksdoitbetter]

here's the promised pic of my kitchener fail

this is actually a pic of the *second* fail that happened over the weekend!

argh!

i totally paid attention this time: knit my knits and purled my purls

still, fail

after poking around the 'net this morning, i realize that many folks work their kitchener steps differently than i do*

i can't account for the half dozen properly seamed toes i've managed in the past using my method, but since it's failed me twice in a row, i'll certainly be trying someone else's next time


*since my method's proven unreliable, i'm choosing not to post it here lest some unwary knitter breeze this post and be lead astray

Comments

[hobbitbabe]

I don't do them the way people do in your "kitchener steps" link. I know that lots of written instructions have them that way.

The way I learned from mum who learned from grandma starts by skipping those first two steps.
Knit front and drop off
Purl front and leave on
Purl back and drop off
Knit back and leave on
is how I do it. And by the time I've done two or three repeats, I can see that it's right.

The only way that it differs from those published instructions is by having one fewer stitches at the beginning. I do do the whole stitch at the end. But I didn't think it would matter.

[geeksdoitbetter]

i've happily thrown away the lil note i used (successfully, til now) but i remember when reading the links above, being very surprised to see my "on" or "off" steps were backwards and out of order

[geeksdoitbetter]

also!

very happy to hear that other folks are having long term success using a different set of steps than those i linked to

[aunty_marion]

That's the method I've learnt - I finally 'got it' from the Stitch 'n' Bitch Nation book, I think, where the diagrams and instructions are clearer than any I'd seen before. 'Knit front Off, Purl front; Purl back Off, Knit Back' is what I recite to myself.