Trivial Pursuits
Someone mentioned on the Spindlers list that Continental knitters tend to have purl rows that cluster together in twos on the wrong side of flat knit stockinette fabrics.
Since I’m doing some flat knitting (the Icarus shawl) and I’m a continental knitter I had to inspect the wrong side to see if have the row clusters.
Someone else pointed out that it’s because the tension on the purl row is usually different than it is on the knit, and suggested that using a different wrap and pinch through direction or even a second needle of different size would even things out.
Guess what? My knits and purls are the same, so no row clusters.
Cool.
Maybe this means that Continental knitting is more cooperative to lefties.
Or that I am better at adjusting my knitting tension than I thought.
I’m on the third repeat of the first chart of the Icarus, so it pretty much looks the same but larger at this point.
I’m at somewhat of a quandry as to what to spin. I want to finish spinning the cashmere, but it takes so long and I think the fiber has some mysterious asexual reproduction going on in the zip baggie. I swear there is more cashmere in the baggie.
Matt bought some small dog slickers for me to play with, they have the regular wire brush pad with the exception that every forth wire is about 3/10th inch longer than the others– so they are great for cleaning my drum carder and get everything off of the carding cloth. Even loose bits of silk noil come up with no argument. This is nothing short of a small miracle for me since cleaning the darned thing is such a pain I avoid using it when I can (and thus avoid washing and picking wool to card) just so I don’t have to clean it.
