Nothing to Show
Winterish, and dark outside. Finally not sweaty.
Resisting
I keep picking up Jane Sowerby’s Victorian Lace Today. I’m so tempted. I’m resisting; it is only a month and a half until the Χ–thing and there is no way I’m finishing a shawl in six weeks. I’m down to one or two conference calls a week and staff meetings are down to a minimum.
Work, though, is why I have nothing to show. Unless you are interested in SQL scripts and funds transfer pricing analyses. I do have a lovely cap plodding along in a Tunisian rib with cables in a smaller sort of gauge. Lots of knitting with very little progress. And a Manos de Uruguay Cotton Stria scarf at work for those conference calls I’m not having. Nothing significant enough for photos.
I now have a laptop for work. Which I carry home every night in case I should finally come down with a cold or the flu and be compelled to stay home. I haven’t yet, but I check my e-mail and end up wasting time at home that I could be wasting at work.
Question
If you are knitting a hat with cables and ribbing, is it better to decrease into the rib or the cable?
November 9th, 2007 at 5:50 am
at first I started typing “rib”…my gut reaction. but it’s not such a bad thing to alternate, one round rib, one round cable…
November 9th, 2007 at 8:37 pm
It’s all about gauge. Generally, cables take more stitches than ribbing does, because it’s a less flexible fabric.
Measure the width of your panel of cable stitches, then figure out how many rib sts you need to give you that same amount of width. That will tell you whether you need to increase or decrease.
This, of course, assumes that I actually understand what you mean when you write “…is it better to decrease into the rib or the cable?”. Maybe post a picture?
December 20th, 2007 at 10:34 pm
How’s the hat going?
February 11th, 2008 at 9:41 pm
Mark? Mark?
You okay?