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so I tried starting the fbs shawl yesterday on size 8's since my 7's are taken up... I think I need to restart this near some more experienced knitters. My lace knitting experience level is quite tiny. I'm horrid at reading charts... so when a chart reads o / o, do I yarn over then knit that stitch, then knit two other stitches together and then yarn over and knit? I seem to be confused and end up with either not enough stitches to finish what I think the chart should be, or too many stitches! poop. I won't give up, I just need to be around some other knitters while figuring this out.
So I will instead concentrate on something for Serenity (out in 14 days!!). I'm going to make the Jayne Cobb hat so that I can wear it to the movie. Here's a website with the pattern, and a nice long followup thread on Craftster.org. Gotta get the yarn....
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i keep seeing the hat on blogs and now i have to make one, too. i love firefly and can't wait for the movie. good luck with the fbs. it took a trip to my lys one day for me to finally figure out how patterns with yarnovers read. keep at it and i am sure your fbs will be lovely.
I wish I had seen that episode of Martha...priceless. :) Wish I could offer some useful insight about the yarn-over deal, but I'm a loser *whoops* I mean, newbie at lace. I'm attempting Kiri, which all the other lace knitters claim is duck soup. Um, more like frog soup, for me. :-P
Aloha,
Chris
Did you learn how to do yarn overs from Stitch & Bitch? This explains how to do one. In Stitch & Bitch (and some other places) they tell you to "knit the next stitch" but what they really mean is "work the next stitch however the pattern calls for". So o / o would mean: yarn over, k2tog, yarn over. You don't need to knit a stitch after the yarn over.
I'm not sure if that's what you meant at all, but if it was I hope I helped.
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