Saturday, November 17, 2007

Doing math




I cast on the prescribed 87 stitches, but it felt all wrong knitting this hand towel. There was no eratta that corrected the number of stitches. I counted the stitches in the pattern repeat and figured the pattern repeat was 8 stitches long, with two 5-stitch borders. So the CO stitches should be a multiple of 8 plus 10, right? That would make the number of stitches 82 (72 + 10) or 90 (80 + 10), not 87! I cast on 90, put markers between the pattern repeats and it's been happy knitting ever since.

This is my first time using Knit Picks CotLin.

2 comments:

Laurie said...

How do you like the Cotlin?

The colors are so rich & cheery, aren't they?

Sarah W. said...

I like it so far. I would call the colors "super saturated"!