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June 21, 2004
Pattern time!
Alrighty well it's 11pm so I am stopping (heh) and I frogged Vera and got right back to where I was and then some. I am 5 rows into color B. No mistakes!
Pattern help please! :)
Work Straight in SP (Stipe pattern) for 8 rows. Continuing in SP, shape sides by decreasing 1 st at each edge of the next and every following 8th row 4 more times as follows:
(so this means once I hit my 8th row I decrease on each END? and do that 4 more times (5 total)?
k1, k2tog, k until 3 sts remain.
k2togb, k1 (71 sts).
Okay thats telling me to decrease by 2 so if i did that 5 times thats 10 sts left and sence I started with 81 i would in turn end up with 71. Okay makes sence. I think k2togb means knit 2 together BEHIND so I think i can find that in my books cause my teacher showed me so I have some inkling.
So at that point I will have knit like.. a lot of rows.. atleast 8x's 5 which is like 36 or something... so then next..
I'll stop at there for now..
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In other news my finger is doing better. The issue that happend a day or two ago where I really messed it up again kinda made it better now because.. well there is no way to say it without being gross but anways its looking better!
I went postal last night when i spotted the painter got paint on my brandy new, first item of real furniture in my new house, solid wood, mahagony finish, 2 thousand dollar dinning room table (well that included 6 chairs). I actually got a migrain I got so upset (I harldy ever get headaches) and I think it was partially post party hosting stress.
Well he tried to deny it on the phone last night (hence my anger) but I worked from home this morning and he was ALL nicet nice to me when he came over to fix another small issue(thats cause I'm a smart girl and hadn't paid him yet) yeah mr you want your check DONT YOU!@ MUHAHAHA NOT TILL YOU FIX MY TABLE!! So he sat for like half an hour till he got the table fixed (though there is still trace amount of paint there but no one would notice like ever). So I am happy again even tho it should not have ONE MARK ON IT! :)
Posted by brandy at June 21, 2004 10:57 PM
Comments
*deep announcer voice* ...Are you ready to rum-ble....
1) Yup, you nailed that first instruction. Decrease one stitch at each end (two total for the row!) every 8th row (which will always be a RS row) five times total (decrease of 10 stitches total). It took me a bit of stitch counting to confirm that there were 5 decreases total and not 4 - the wording could have been clearer, I think.
2) K2togb was the thing I was having problems with, if you'll remember. I think you should learn that and do a little tutorial on your weblog for me. :) j/k, at least a little bit! I just did ssk in place of k2togb, it's all decreasing anyway.
Good luck! I'm getting up to the top of my Vera, I've got maybe 10 rows to finish the back side up... and I haven't picked up my knitting hardly at all these last few days. Go figure, eh?
Posted by: Sandy at June 22, 2004 10:05 AM
*does 3 cartweels and rolls into kungo-fu stance* Ayyyyyyyyy aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!
Awsume! your moving along at a good pace. It's hard some nights to knit I find, and others I just can't stop!
Yeah I will figure out the K2tgob and post some pics! :)
Posted by: brandy at June 22, 2004 10:57 AM