I don't know why I can't seem to follow patterns. Everyone else does. I'm so frustrated. I'm not giving up, and I'd like to state, for the record, that I did not blow up, use profanity, or otherwise comport myself in anything other than a dignified manner last night as I frogged and re-started the Clapotis many times.
This, my friends, is progress. But still, the fact remains that despite the photo in this post, I have no Clapotis on my needles. But at one of several points last night, I did, in fact, have section 1 completed:
But I can start again tonight. And keep going until I can figure out how to do it right and have the right # of stitches on the needle on any given row. I got all the way to row 8 or 10 of section 2, and then made a mistake. Maybe I need to get better at fixing mistakes, since all I can see to do, when faced with the wrong # of stitches on the needle, is to start all over again, since there are ssks and k2togs and ktbls and kfbs pfbs and I can't figure out how to work back through them. I know how to do them, which is a nice feeling. I read the pattern, and I know what all of it means. I just can't seem to translate it well into the stitches on my needles.
So, tonight, I will again attempt to get solidly into section 2 of Clapotis. Maybe I also need to re-type the pattern into something easier for my brain to process. I get lost in the k1s and the ktbls when I read it in a row (just don't visually process it well anymore), so maybe if I rewrite the pattern in an easier format for me to read, it would help.
I finished another mitered square yesterday (that makes 3, though I have no photo of #2 or #3 yet), and cast on for another one.
I'll figure this out. I just need to find the ways that work for me.
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Since you have three squares done, there is a method for knitting the mitered square blanket that eliminates 50% of the sewing. Here is the tutorial: http://www.masondixonknitting.com/archives/2006_05.html#001556
ReplyDeleteI thought you would like to know since it will probably cut down on your frustration later on. And remember to weave in your ends now or you will be stabbing yourself in the eyeballs trying to weave them in later!
Thank you, Juli! I will definitely put the 3 squares together and use the directions to knit the 4th one onto them!
ReplyDeleteI hate weaving in ends, and will definitely take your advice on weaving them in now.