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Sunday June 24, 2007
Houston we have patterning
I've been making good progress on the gurnsey and reached the chest patterns.
I've made a few mistakes so far, I hope not too noticable as I made the same mistake on both the front and the back. In fact, I think this photo is of the error section.
I think the reason that Ive made mistakes, and these are really stupid errors of counting, is that the pattern is terribly confusing. It's really quite unnecessarily confusing as its a pretty basic 16 row repeat, with only 4 actual pattern rows. It would be an ideal pattern for a chart, however the way the pattern is written does not point out the repeat, and each row is written out, with comments like Rows 16-24 repeat rows 12-16, but the instructions for row 15 say repeat row 13...you get the idea.
Finally, I got out my notebook and calculator, worked out where I had made the mistakes, and re-wrote the pattern in a row repeat format. I would have charted it but my squared paper was too small for the 175 stitch pattern (!) I know I could have charted the repeats, but the exercise of rewriting the pattern has reinforced the pattern in my mind and it's really much easier now. I also added the markers to aid knitting without counting (essential for knitting while watching television).
Ive got a while before the arm split, but I'm waiting for measurement details from my mother before committing to the length!
Posted by Alison at 7:12 PM. Category: Ganseys
Comments
Woohoo!!
And I thought my "traditional charted" pattern was complicated. In fact that's probably why yours is written in that way ("badly") - because its taken from its roots but the writer has not bothered to translate it properly.
With the Whitby pattern, you have to work all this out before you start in order to understand the pattern at all.
Posted by: Christina at June 29, 2007 6:20 PM
