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post #1 of 16
9/8/08 at 1:18am
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I started this today in my knitting group. I get to the part where I begin decreasing the top and I've ripped it out and started over at this point once already. This time I made sure I was focusing and it's still coming out off centered. Any one else have any experience with this pattern? What's the deal? I don't get it! :
I was so excited to get this knit up for a friends baby. I dyed the yarn yesterday with watermelon and cherry kool-aid and it's a really yummy pink color!
I want to knit!!!!!!
post #2 of 16
9/8/08 at 3:30am
If you're following the pattern exactly as written and your markers are in the right place, put a lifeline in now (just in case) and roll with it to the bitter end. I promise, it works.
post #3 of 16
9/8/08 at 9:16pm
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I'm getting it to work now but I'm changing the pattern! I don't know why- it's probably me and not the pattern but I tried it 3X reading the pattern very carefully and it ends up off centered. The markers were in the right place!
What I did was leave markers on instead of removing and ignore the number of stitches to knit or purl but make sure each decrease was happening on the other side of the marker. Now it's working!
post #4 of 16
9/9/08 at 2:07am
I'm stuck right at the beginning

Row 5 (yeah it didn't take me long did it?)

It says to slip the last 3 stitiches in each row. I did that, ( I think - that's just sliding the stitch over to the right hand needle without knitting it right?) but now I don't know what to do with those stitches when I get to the next row?
post #5 of 16
9/9/08 at 10:30am
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Originally Posted by Skiesmama View Post
I'm stuck right at the beginning

Row 5 (yeah it didn't take me long did it?)

It says to slip the last 3 stitiches in each row. I did that, ( I think - that's just sliding the stitch over to the right hand needle without knitting it right?) but now I don't know what to do with those stitches when I get to the next row?
I don't have the pattern in front of me, but You would just work them the same as the other stitches. the 3 stitches at the ends are the i-cord trim.
post #6 of 16
9/9/08 at 12:16pm
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It's not the i-cord trim- the i-cord trim is on the brim of the hat and it's a cool little technique I've never done before. I thought it was weird at first too to slip so many stiches but it's really cool, hang with it. It just creates a nice little folded over area on the side of the hat!

I'm curious what happens when you get to the decrease part! Let me know.

I'm done with the hat, it's very cute- I'm going to make another. Here's some pictures on my blog: www.sprenkebradberry.blogspot.com
post #7 of 16
9/9/08 at 1:01pm
mom2sol - which size were you doing? I can help you pinpoint whatever the problem was I saw on your blog that you were getting a weird line fromt eh slip stitch on one side - you shouldn't be getting that, so I'm thinking there's something amiss

skiesmama - the three slipped stitches just get worked normally on the next row (purled on wrong side rows, knit on right side rows) you'll just pull the yarn snug behing the slipped stitches and work them - they create a knitted-in icord so that the sides of the hat have a nice clean finished edge that won't curl in
post #8 of 16
9/9/08 at 1:36pm
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Hi!
I'm sure it's all me! I'm making the infant sizes.
So the ridge I'm talking about- I think is from when you slip 1, knit, PSSO. When you decrease on the other side by purling 2 together there's no slip before that decrease.

So I was thinking if I skipped the slip before the PSSO decrease I wouldn't get the ridge?
post #9 of 16
9/9/08 at 2:29pm
I don't remember a slip before the decrease....
post #10 of 16
9/9/08 at 2:54pm
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Originally Posted by mom2sol View Post
Hi!
I'm sure it's all me! I'm making the infant sizes.
So the ridge I'm talking about- I think is from when you slip 1, knit, PSSO. When you decrease on the other side by purling 2 together there's no slip before that decrease.

So I was thinking if I skipped the slip before the PSSO decrease I wouldn't get the ridge?
if you skip the slip before the PSSO (Pass Slipped Stitch Over) you won't be able to DO the PSSO, though. Maybe that's where your issue with it being uneven was? Were you slipping an extra stitch for the PSSO, thus bumping it all over one stitch? You should be doing exactly as the pattern says (these are from the first row, obviously you ignore the marker instructions after this one since they're gone, LOL!): knit to
one stitch before next marker, slip next stitch, remove marker, knit 1, PSSO
the slipped stitch that you pass over is the stitch you slipped before moving the marker
post #11 of 16
9/9/08 at 5:43pm
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I'm not getting it! The PSSO has a slip in it- so if I do it as it says, wouldn't I be- slip 1, knit 1, then PSSO- which is slip as if to purl, knit the next one then pass slipped over new stitch and off the needle? Or are you saying the slip 1 knit 1 is part of the PSSO? I'm very confused!
post #12 of 16
9/9/08 at 5:53pm
You're turning the slipped stitch and the knit stitch into a single stitch. So slip one, knit one, and move the slipped stitch over and off the needle as if you were casting off.

I think www.knittinghelp.com has a video if you need it.
post #13 of 16
9/9/08 at 8:07pm
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Originally Posted by mom2sol View Post
I'm not getting it! The PSSO has a slip in it- so if I do it as it says, wouldn't I be- slip 1, knit 1, then PSSO- which is slip as if to purl, knit the next one then pass slipped over new stitch and off the needle? Or are you saying the slip 1 knit 1 is part of the PSSO? I'm very confused!
the slip 1, knit 1 is part of the PSSO - "psso" just means "Pass slipped stitch over" So, the whole decrease is slip 1, knit, pass the slipped stitch over the knit stitch - which will result in the two stitches decreasing to one stitch
post #14 of 16
9/9/08 at 8:43pm
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Sorry! I'm feeling rather silly
I think my first trimester brain is taking things too literally! I didn't remember what PSSO stood for, looked it up in the pattern and followed literally what it says PSSO is! Does that make any sense?
Funny, it's all so clear now!
post #15 of 16
9/10/08 at 1:39am
Thanks

I got impatient last night and decided to try the way I thought it might be and it turns out it was the right way, so it's all good.

I'm sure I'll come looking for this thread when I get a little further on if I get stuck

IT looks good so far I'm using O-wool in the magenta color (I forget what the name is)

Heather
post #16 of 16
9/12/08 at 2:15pm
the yarn sounds so yummy do you have any pictures of it id love to see
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