Hello, one more from Europe! I'm from Finland, and this is my first knit-along, and the first time I'm blogging. Not the first sweater this year, it's in fact the third.
I'm knitting Audrey in Coral, and I have found this talk about colour very interesting. I have started, and had been knitting about 20 cm when I realised that I was making the decreases on the wrong side of the knitting! No wonder they looked awful! I frogged it, and have now one piece completed. I think the darts will be good, they will accenturate the curves in your body. I have never knit with calmer before, and I find it a wondderful yarn to work with.
And Rachel, I looove your Vespa!
Posted by Maud at April 5, 2004 12:19 AMHi Maud!
I am a new knitter; just learned last September and this is my first sweater. I've started the front/back three or four times because the decreases just did not look right. Maybe I had the same problem you describe, but did not know what I was doing wrong (still trying to get good at "reading" my knitting)? Any advice would be much appreciated!
Thanks so much.
Cruz
Posted by: Cruz at April 5, 2004 02:21 AMLook at the picture in Anne's blog (from the list of all of us taking part in the Audrey-along), that is how they look when done according to the pattern. If you have started on the wrong side, they will not even be close to that, since all stitches will be reversed, and you will be doing the decreases in the wrong "place", even if you are doing them with the right stictches, but since the right stitches are revesed... Hmm... did anybody understand that?
I hope you'll find out what your problem is. Could you post a picture?
Posted by: Maud at April 5, 2004 01:50 PM