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Wednesday, June 17, 2009

First scarf

Thanks to Karen for her encouragement and thanks to Youtube for its great videos (videos from CyberSeams are the best!), I've completed my first knitting project - a simple scarf of Garter stitch. Videos made learning so much easier, I admire people who learned from books with just 2D images.


Garter stitch - every row, front and back have the same pattern.



The scarf looks OK on the whole, but I know a few flaws. I can't hide the frayed knots of the yarns, I can only 'adjust' them so they are only visible on 1 side of the scarf, that becomes the back of the scarf. And binding-off was the most tricky part, everything was good until the 2nd last stitch :( I didn't know how to save it. However, I learn from my mistakes, hopefully next one will be better :)

I used 3 balls of yarn for that, it's kind of short, so I've prepared 5 balls for my next project. Knit stitch on every row bores me, I'm going to try the Stockinette Stitch this time.

8 comments:

  1. You really got such a patience to do that!

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  2. It feels good to see my scarf grows longer everytime I knit :p

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  3. Great, the next one you can do for me! ;-P

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  4. Nice scarf. even more nicer becuase u knitted it urself! im proud of you! haha =)

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  5. Hey mango, you memang multi-talented leh! proud of you babe! :)

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  6. How long did you take to complete such a nice scarf?

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  7. The exact time, should be 1-2 weeks, but I didn't knit full time, I dragged this for few months :p

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  8. oh wow.... u know wat, i started to knit a scarf but till now. it's still unfinished!!

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