Join me as I knit my way through the Useful Articles in "Weldon's Practical Needlework", published by Interweave Press.
About Weldon's Practical Needlework
From Interweave Press:
About 1885, Weldon’s began publishing a series of fourteen-page monthly newsletters, available by subscription, each title featuring patterns and instructions for projects using a single technique.
About 1888, the company began to publish Weldon’s Practical Needlework, each volume of which consisted of twelve issues (one year) of several newsletters bound together with a cloth cover.
I have a question about this pattern. During the transition from chart 1 to chart 2, it seems the stitch count doesn't come out correctly.
With casting on 118 stitches minus 4 for the edging divided by 19 for the number of stitches in the repeat, you get six repeats.
At the end of row 103, you have 113 stitches. Minus the 4 for the edging, it’s 109. 109 is not wholly divisible by 21 shown on chart 2 (number of stitches per repeat minus edging). One would actually have to pick up 13 stitches between charts 1 and 2 to keep the pattern at the same repeat number or subtract for 5 whole repeats.
It's been a while since I knit the scarf but I believe the instructions are correct. If you look at chart 2, you will see that you work a partial pattern repeat at beginning and end of the chart, and work the repeat in the "box" across the row
Ah. I see it now. I just tinked back a few rows and will insert a row or two of garter so that I can increase to 113 as I lost some somehow on the tinking. It is recoverable, though. I've never worked a pattern with an offset repeat like this one. Thanks so much for your help and the pattern!!!
I have a question about this pattern.
ReplyDeleteDuring the transition from chart 1 to chart 2, it seems the stitch count doesn't come out correctly.
With casting on 118 stitches minus 4 for the edging divided by 19 for the number of stitches in the repeat, you get six repeats.
At the end of row 103, you have 113 stitches. Minus the 4 for the edging, it’s 109. 109 is not wholly divisible by 21 shown on chart 2 (number of stitches per repeat minus edging). One would actually have to pick up 13 stitches between charts 1 and 2 to keep the pattern at the same repeat number or subtract for 5 whole repeats.
Unless I’m totally reading it wrong.
It's been a while since I knit the scarf but I believe the instructions are correct. If you look at chart 2, you will see that you work a partial pattern repeat at beginning and end of the chart, and work the repeat in the "box" across the row
ReplyDeleteAh. I see it now. I just tinked back a few rows and will insert a row or two of garter so that I can increase to 113 as I lost some somehow on the tinking. It is recoverable, though. I've never worked a pattern with an offset repeat like this one.
DeleteThanks so much for your help and the pattern!!!