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ghter fingering weight of touch of silk and i used it double stranded this gave the same gauge as the green one now i always say i can t make the same thing twice what s the point i guess i need to keep experimenting so i changed up the stitch pattern slightly added another eyelet to the top of the motif and took out 2 rows of the plain knitting so this one s a tad more work not a big deal and it doesn t really change the garment too much overall not too many people would spot the difference between them other than the colour now the green one is a hoodie and i know not everyone likes hoodies but have you seen the younger girl s closet lately they usually have 30 to 40 hoodies on the go at any given time so what s the big deal well anyway i decided to add the option of a plain neckline for those who don t appreciate the hoodie fashion statement and i finished mine with the picot band around the neck but i did knit the hood and once the photos are taken i ll be changing it the patterns are almost ready hope to have them out late next week posted by mary anne oger at 4 19 pm no comments labels mid gauge pom wednesday march 16 2011 you ll be green with envy i ve finished the green hoodie it s so cute the only thing i don t like about it it doesn t fit me because the colour isn t really me i made it to fit my daughter in law agnieszka cover of no 53 and mom of nathan and rhiana she s just enough smaller than me that it s too snug especially you know where but i have to say i impressed myself and i m going to make it again in another colour the techniques are amazing and i finished up with coming up with a great little buttonhole that is awesome the hem and bands are started with every other needle for two reasons to create an easy picot hem but also to reduce the thickness on the back side of the hem the eon will make it lay flatter and be less bulky which was great until i came to make the buttonhole band i thought bholes would be a snap because i only needed a one stitch hole for the 15mm buttons i had they are a nice pewter shade and surprise i happened to have 9 in my stash because the band is narrow only 4 rows i wanted a small button and lots of them would do the job nicely i already had the holes in the lace to test out for size what could be simpler well think again ma the first swatch i merely transferred a stitch over on the top side of the band figuring that with the eon on the back facing side the hole would go right through both sides not on my second attempt i decided i needed to incorporate the buttonhole into the facing and use 2 stitches the hole was way too big lumpy stretched out and was awful okay so rethink and play around a bit the lightbulb came on and it was absolute brilliance well i m not going to go on and on you ll see when you get the pattern anyway check out the lace there s another special technique here where to keep the pattern going near the edge of the knitting you still want the travelling path of the stitches when they are moved with the 3 prong tool but you don t want a hole near or at the edge of the fabric especially where the front band will go it will all be in the pattern i promise it will be ready for the end of march the yarn i used is touch of silk a dk yarn by forsell from http www knittinggallery com posted by mary anne oger at 10 38 am 1 comment labels hand transferred lace mid gauge pom friday march 11 2011 rant 2011 let s get some stuff out in the open for those real mk ers out there who know and love me regarding my contributions to knit nstyle ya know it s not just the fact that reading is mandatory but you should be semi conscious when you do read and as for just looking at the pictures don t you think it s kind of weird that there are no photos of the mao version of the hand knit pattern that s because i did not design that garment i did not knit that garment i did not even test knit that garment or that yarn chances are i ve never seen the yarn i am given the hand knit pattern and a photo of it on a hanger and asked to re write it so machine knitters might be able to use it in most cases i do get to choose which patterns to convert or rewrite and that s usually based on 1 whether it can actually be machine knit exactly as the hand knit one providing the user is able to match the gauge given and the gauge is one that i think can be achieved on a machine with the specified yarn 2 whether i think a mk er would actually knit it i may be able to come up with the translation of a lace pattern but are you going to do 400 plus rows of hand manipulation i think not that s why we have machines we re lazy 3 the gauge of most of the hand knits are either mid gauge or bulky which means hand transfers not that i have anything against a few here and there see previous post but if it s going to take as long to machine knit as hand knit why bother i have tried to add a few machine knitting techniques like the use of shortrowing and waste yarn for shoulders but due to space limitations i m not allowed to make too many changes and why would i i d sooner start from scratch and give you a true machine knitting pattern hoping to be able to inspire you to get outside of your comfort zone and learn a little something expand your mk ing repertoire here s a clue if my name is at or near the top of the page in large letters or my picture is there somewhere and it says design by mao you can bet i did it all by my lonesome posted by mary anne oger at 12 01 pm 2 comments labels kns tuesday march 8 2011 on designing when i m drawing a blank on what to make next i fall back on my old standard question what kind of garment would i like to pull out of my closet right now how can i put a different spin on yet another cardigan on the mid gauge spring is coming i m sure and i love lace and doing it on the mid gauge means hand transfers therefore i don t want anything too complicated i looked through some old hand knit magazines for some inspiration for a lace pattern i wanted to avoid vertical and horizontal lines and have a pattern that wouldn t take forever to do i found a fairly simple one that in hand knit was a 12 st x 18 row pattern in hand knits they do yarn overs and k2tog which make the eyelets on every row in machine knitting transfer the stitch to the next needle and leave the empty needle in work does the same thing as a machine knitter being basically lazy i generally try to set up patterns that require transfers on every row i find it s easier to follow less chance of error and it gets the job done quicker when you can knit 2 rows between the work so my first try resulted in this the blue it looks very close to the hand knit version but i found it kind of boring after i got the piece off the machine to really look at it i m thinking what can i do to spice this up i decided to go with a 2 step full fashioned transfer so in the green swatch still did the very same eyelets but took the 4th stitch from where the hole was to be moved it one needle toward the hole needle then took 3 stitches with the 3 prong tool and moved them together away one needle space to make the first hole like what i call an outlined 4 to 3 full fashioned decrease knit 2 rows did the same thing on either side of the single hole k2r and repeated that again to make the bottom v then on row 8 put 3 sts on centre needle of the motif making 2 more eyelets then knit six rows this can be varied less if you want more holes in the piece repeated the motif but offset it to be between the first set of motifs notice how the travelling stitches between the motifs create a new dimension to the fabric it reminds me of paper lanterns i also played with the bottom pattern to make it match better with the overall pattern my overall pattern ended up to be a 12 st x 24 row repeat with transfers on 8 rows so it is still a pretty quick knit but with a nice overall effect now shall i do make it a hoodie or not posted by mary anne oger at 3 24 pm 5 comments labels hand transferred lace mid gauge saturday march 5 2011 button detail it s buttonholes time some people dread this and actually make it much more difficult than it really is they try formulas and all kind of math things that are way too hard i find the easiest way and stick with it no calculator needed i guarantee it so i m doing a stockinette hemmed band knit horizontally so you know exactly how many stitches in the length of the band make the button band first to be sure it works and then you know you re not experimenting with the length of the band and putting all the work of buttonholes into it if it s not going to be right been there done that for this style and to make it even easier i m going with an uneven number of buttons that means a centre one and the end ones are going to be the same distance from each end this will give you a little room to adjust if necessary i think you call that symmetrical but i didn t want to get too complicated sounding it s easy so far so i pull out those needles slightly so you can see where they are on the end ones making them the same distance from the end means you don t need to worry about which is the top of the band and which is the bottom so i ve got exact placement on 3 of the 7 buttonholes and 2 more to go between the end and centre on each side rather than counting and re counting needles i use the ruler marked on the straight side of the needle selector to measure the spacing between needles it s much quicker to adjust and get the spacing exact this way now all i have to do is finish up maybe i should tell you this is going to be the march pattern for standard gauge tons of details to make planning altering knitting and finishing go easier like when do you need an extra stitch for seaming or not the yarn is yeoman yarns brittany used double stranded so get 2 cones i see sue at http www knititnow com is going to be bringing yeoman yarns to the us pat holbrook at http www cardiknits com in canada about those buttons i know what you re thinking what s she thinking i had 7 the approximate size but i agree they really don t anything for the cardigan wait and see bet you didn t expect to hear from me again so soon oh and in case you haven t figured it out yet if you click on the photos they enlarge posted by mary anne oger at 2 19 pm 1 comment labels buttonholes buttons counting needles friday march 4 2011 fourth time s a charm i m working on a patch pocket now i ve made them before and i want it fairly basic it s just plain stockinette so i m curving the bottom corners by shortrowing oh i should say that i began with a chained cast on using the yarn double stranded because i know it will look nice the top of the pocket is finished with a narrow stockinette band made separately from the pocket a few less stitches and a slightly tighter tension to draw it in a bit so the top won t flare out the first pocket was not wide enough the second one was just right but as i looked at it i thought g that chain would look really nice if i could make it go up the sides too then i measured the chain from the bottom to figure out how long it needed to be to go up the sides and added that to the width of the pocket so instead of casting on 18 0 18 n s i cast on 25 sts extra to each side chaining across using the main yarn double stranded then k1r single strand then i took off the 25 sts each side on waste yarn now i m knitting the pocket shortrowing the bottom corners for the curve 1 stitch on every other row 4 times for each side okay row 9 and now i should start adding the chain up the sides think about it for a bit and i want the chain to be on the front like the bottom when the knit side side away is the right side what you put on first will be on the outside like doing a cable the stitches put down first will be on the outside so i take the end stitch off hang the next stitch of the chain and put the end stitch back on yes it works i soon realize it s easier to do each side on opposite rows so you re not fighting against the yarn on the carriage side no big deal i was joining it on every other row anyway as i get closer to the top i realize i have too many chained stitches left g can i attach it to the edges of the top band the band is made separately and hemmed into the bargain so this method of attaching won t work i take the pocket off and make the band pondering the problem as i make the band on auto pilot attach the pocket to the band and yes i have it hang the end of the band pick up the stitches holding the chain pull them through cast off and bob s your uncle heh heh still a few extra stitches of chain no problem just knit a new one with less chained stitches really think about it this time only need 1 chain stitch for every other row of the depth of the pocket and don t forget you shortrowed those 4 sts 8 rows and the band was 8 rows 4 stitches just happens to be the same as the shortrowed part have i lost you yet the pocket was 40 rows so all i need is 20 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