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About a month ago…

November 1st, 2008 by monnibo | Knitting, Out & About, WIP

I met with some friends for a birthday-knit. I proposed that I would finish Calorimetry. Well that’s in the past seeing as what happened with Calorimetry. However, the birthday girl did teach me a new cast on method.

I used to do the “thumb” method — make a loop of yarn around my thumb and forefinger shaped like an L and slip it onto the needle. The thing I hated about this is the cast-on row was very loose and I would have to knit a ‘foundation row’ before anything else. Quite annoying.

So Julia taught me the “long-tail cast-on”. It’s fantastic! I just have to make sure I have enough ‘tail’.

Here is what I cast on about a month ago:

The pattern is the Anthropologie-Inspired Capelet [ravelry link]… and the yarn was a gift from Michelle. It’s making such a gorgeous knitted fabric. Take a closer look:

And *cough*cough* I’d like to point out my Ravelry WIP bars… they’ve been updated! Looking forward to more knitting content? I am!

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5 responses about “About a month ago…”

  1. Jessi said:
    November 1st, 2008 at 10:10 pm

    I use the long tail cast on for just about everything. :-) Although, when I first learned to knit, it took the hubby and I both to figure out the illustrations on how to do it. lol Believe it or not, he’s the one that actually figured it out and taught me.

  2. Julia said:
    November 2nd, 2008 at 10:31 am

    I like the colour progression. I can’t wait to see how the finished prduct looks like! Happy Knitting!

  3. Chelle said:
    November 2nd, 2008 at 2:08 pm

    Yay some knitting! Lol that was month ago, time sure goes fast. Your capelet is going to look super cute. Here’s the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yVikAvPuE4 to the Cat Bordhi video on how to conceal the wraps on short rows. She is fantastic and does such a great job at explaining it, far better than I ever could!

  4. Ruth said:
    November 2nd, 2008 at 2:17 pm

    Looks good. Now keep it up, okay? I was so excited when I learned the long-tail cast on, too. Now I’m converted to the knitted cast-on, no worries about having enough tail. (no dirty thoughts, please)

  5. Chan said:
    November 3rd, 2008 at 7:32 am

    Beautiful yarn!

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