Very late Sunday night I started a new project, the Cabled Chapeau, a pattern from Stitch Nation which is free on their site and on Coats and Clark. Last year I made a hat I loved but it doesn't look good on me. I would also need to frog it a bit and make the crown a lot deeper to get the fit I'm after, namely, to cover my bloody ears!
I'm using Plymouth Encore Worsted Tweed for this project. It's a wool/acrylic/viscose blend that is springy and soft. I noticed when casting on that this yarn is a 'Z' twist. I hope that doesn't cause too much of a problem for me. The only other time I knit with a 'Z' twist was for a baby kimono sweater in 2009. The Lion Brand Microspun has a tight 'Z' twist which gave the knitted fabric a different texture. This yarn seems to knit up fast and is very cushy and lovely so I hope that will offset the irritation of cables. They are lovely after all, so I must put up with them.
Tonight when I picked up the hat to work on it, I noticed a weird stitch. Well, not so much a stitch a mistake. There is a loop of yarn pulled from one row up over 5 rows and knitting back in. I don't know how this happened, but I will be ripping back a bit tonight to take care of it.
Also, does anyone have tips on how to knit cables? I end up with some loose stitches on one side of my cables, and I think there's a trick to preventing that, twisting the stitch, or knitting through the back? Something like that.
4 comments:
so pretty. love the colors
OMG! It's like a knitalong. I am working on the Cabled Chapeau also! And I love the Stitch Nation yarn, too. I am having the same issue with the stitches at the cables...I will have to research how to prevent that! We'll figure it out. I love the hat so far. Although from reading ravelry I see that a lot of people had a hard time with the brim instructions....we'll have to work it out together!
I saw your project in Ravelry when I went in to add my progress shot. What size needles are you using? Your stitches look more defined.
I am using 8's, what are you using? I honeslty think it's the yarn that's making the definition. That's why I love the Stitch Nation yarn so much. It's nice to work with. Almost as nice as Cascade 220 which is my all time fave right now, now Debbie just needs to come out with more colors for her new line of Stitch Nation yarns!!!
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