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It's freezing here! Worse, my Uggs are AWOL (Neil remembers packing them but can't remember where). They really need replacing anyway but I was hoping to put that off (also, shoe shopping, bleh.) I went to the farmers market today and my feet nearly froze.
My mom finished the scarf:
Experienced knitters will probably have spotted the problem: she knitted in stockinette, no border, so the edges curl. (For the non-knitters, plain stockinette with no border will always curl, because knit stitches are bigger than purl ones.) It's not too bad, and the scarf is wider than Aliza really needs anyway, but I do have a slight dilemma. There's a lot of wool left, so she offered to do a matching one for me. (I'd still have to buy one more skein, but I've already got most of what she'd need and since it's been wound, it's non-returnable.) However, I'd like it to lay flat, and I have to decide how I want her to do that. I don't like garter stitch. The wool is chunky (she only needed 21 stitches per row to do a scarf for Aliza), so a garter stitch border will be quite wide and I don't want to ask her to try anything complicated. That also precludes knitting it in the round and sewing the edges. As well as taking twice as much yarn, it would be too thick, and alpaca is really warm as it is. So I'm left with having her knit it in rib, but I'm not sure how it will come out. Hmm.
My mom finished the scarf:
Experienced knitters will probably have spotted the problem: she knitted in stockinette, no border, so the edges curl. (For the non-knitters, plain stockinette with no border will always curl, because knit stitches are bigger than purl ones.) It's not too bad, and the scarf is wider than Aliza really needs anyway, but I do have a slight dilemma. There's a lot of wool left, so she offered to do a matching one for me. (I'd still have to buy one more skein, but I've already got most of what she'd need and since it's been wound, it's non-returnable.) However, I'd like it to lay flat, and I have to decide how I want her to do that. I don't like garter stitch. The wool is chunky (she only needed 21 stitches per row to do a scarf for Aliza), so a garter stitch border will be quite wide and I don't want to ask her to try anything complicated. That also precludes knitting it in the round and sewing the edges. As well as taking twice as much yarn, it would be too thick, and alpaca is really warm as it is. So I'm left with having her knit it in rib, but I'm not sure how it will come out. Hmm.