Friday Rambles happen at 4:15 pm PDT. Next week will be the wrap up of h+h Americas. I thought I took out the dead space and ums, but it still shows the original time. hmm
For me, it is a disappointment. :-( You can see that I swatched 10 yrs ago and back to it again. But I look forward to finding another stitch pattern for it.
Your swatches came out very nice. Remember the YO swatch for the shawl? Whatever way I knitted the YOs, I didn't like the outcome. So scrap that and find another stitch pattern. Um, I think I'll experiment with your Berkshire pattern.
Okay, I’ve been thinking about that swatch. Have you considered that the yarn may be wrong? Are you using a silk or silk blend. I think it needs to be a similar fiber to what Yumiko used.
I bought the kit directly from Yumiko at a conference in Pasadena. It's the exact yarn. The stitches in the picture look too perfect. I feel she did it on a knitting machine.
HI Jill, I received the following from a professional machine knitter. This is what she had to say.
'm sorry, but i'm voting thumbs down for this on the machine.
Hi Jill
I received the following email from a professional hand knitter. WOW! Something so simple really isn't.
1. The very first instruction is to slip the first stitch tightly. Unless you pull up on the yarn at the beginning of the row,it's difficult for us to control this. BUT it's just an edge stitch, so no biggie.
2. She is using a very fine yarn (approx 2000 yards per pound) using a size 10/ 11 needle.
it's very difficult for us to get that loose of a tension on an LK150
3. the pattern is k2tog (knit 2 together), knit 1. For machine knitters, K2tog is the same as transferring 1 stitch to it's neighbor and leaving the empty needle in work. When you knit back, the empty needles will have a loop over the needle (no stitch will form. that loop is equivalent to the YO (yarn over)
.4 I"m not quite sure I understand "The K2 stitches are too loose and loopy.". if you mean the YO, yes they will be really loose and sloppy.
5. on your LK150 this would be a matter of knitting at tension 10+ with a really fine yarn, using a lot of weight AND transferring every other stitch every other row ... (really tedious IMHO) It would almost be faster to hand knit.
6. blocking will be the key - IMHO blocking wires would be critical.
Sorry, but I wouldn't recommend working this on the machine
Entirely possible! That is so sad because it will be impossible to ever get it exactly right. Certainly not fair to the knitter who buys it. Boo.
For me, it is a disappointment. :-( You can see that I swatched 10 yrs ago and back to it again. But I look forward to finding another stitch pattern for it.
Your swatches came out very nice. Remember the YO swatch for the shawl? Whatever way I knitted the YOs, I didn't like the outcome. So scrap that and find another stitch pattern. Um, I think I'll experiment with your Berkshire pattern.
Okay, I’ve been thinking about that swatch. Have you considered that the yarn may be wrong? Are you using a silk or silk blend. I think it needs to be a similar fiber to what Yumiko used.
I bought the kit directly from Yumiko at a conference in Pasadena. It's the exact yarn. The stitches in the picture look too perfect. I feel she did it on a knitting machine.
HI Jill, I received the following from a professional machine knitter. This is what she had to say.
'm sorry, but i'm voting thumbs down for this on the machine.
Hi Jill
I received the following email from a professional hand knitter. WOW! Something so simple really isn't.
1. The very first instruction is to slip the first stitch tightly. Unless you pull up on the yarn at the beginning of the row,it's difficult for us to control this. BUT it's just an edge stitch, so no biggie.
2. She is using a very fine yarn (approx 2000 yards per pound) using a size 10/ 11 needle.
it's very difficult for us to get that loose of a tension on an LK150
3. the pattern is k2tog (knit 2 together), knit 1. For machine knitters, K2tog is the same as transferring 1 stitch to it's neighbor and leaving the empty needle in work. When you knit back, the empty needles will have a loop over the needle (no stitch will form. that loop is equivalent to the YO (yarn over)
https://www.knititnow.com/glossary/712/knit-together/term
.4 I"m not quite sure I understand "The K2 stitches are too loose and loopy.". if you mean the YO, yes they will be really loose and sloppy.
5. on your LK150 this would be a matter of knitting at tension 10+ with a really fine yarn, using a lot of weight AND transferring every other stitch every other row ... (really tedious IMHO) It would almost be faster to hand knit.
6. blocking will be the key - IMHO blocking wires would be critical.
Sorry, but I wouldn't recommend working this on the machine