Learning to knit – my stitches are leaning!
- At October 16, 2013
- By Kelly
- In Knitting
- 1
I finished my dishcloth the other day and took it to class last night. It’s amazing how long it took to make such a small thing, but I’m excited to have a portable craft for hockey season.
The instructor looked at it and said it didn’t look right, so she watched how I was purling, thinking I was doing that wrong since that was what I taught myself with the help of knitpicks.com and youtube. As it turned out, my purling was correct, but I was knitting through the back loop rather than the front. This caused all my knit stitches to lean.
Ooops! They looked okay to me, but I didn’t know any better. :) Good news, though. Now that I know how to do it properly, it’s much faster! And this one still works, so I’m counting it as a successful project. The pattern is from Bunchberry Studio and it’s the Stockinette Stitch Dish Cloth. (craftsy affiliate link, though it’s a free pattern!)
The kids have three days off school, I have a million projects in my head and they have the living room covered in Hot Wheels cars. Yikes!
Happy Fall!
Kelly