It definitely is Spring around here, as the wild flowers are blooming and the mountains are turning green. Add this to the birds singing and the butterflies checking out the blooms and next thing you know I found myself drawing up a new pillow design of daisies and butterflies.
As before, this chart is gauged for 8 stitches and 11 rows, knitted with fingering yarn. I will be using Knitpicks Palette yarn for this design. The chart for the detailed crocheted lines and specialty stitches are included in the download. The knitted cording instructions are in the PDF file listed below.
Of course, you can use the center motif on other projects. Here is the pattern – daisies and butterfly pillow
For knitted cording instructions, Knitted Cording Instructions This file includes instructions for joining knitted back.
Give it a try –
KT
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Hi! I’ve found your blog through Ravelry. You have very uusefl tips!Thank you for the 5s tip. I count in 3–3-4, 10s, basically. Work for me, but I might try 5s too.As for counting rows, I use a stitch markers of 2 types: one small and several bigger ones. I don’t mark first row, after I knit 5, I put a small SM around a stitch, just like you do (but after I knit the row, not during, like this it’s not in the way when I knit next stitch). Then after I knit another 5 rows, I put a big SM, which marks 10. After next 5 I move the small SM, knit another 5 and put another big one. Like this you can quickly see how many 10s you’ve done already, very uusefl for long stockinette cardigans!I’m not sure if I understand why you count the stitches on the needle as a knitted row though. They’re yet to become V’s, it’s a “row to be”. So in your example I’d say that you’ve already knit 25 rows and are about to knit row 26.Thank you again, and count me in your followers!Greetings from Belgium, Olga
Olga: You are right when you referred to the stitches on the needle as an incomplete row. For me, the term is just a way of expressing the stitch count. I have found that counting the stitches on the needle occasionally ( especially using the small needles and yarn), is a way of checking to see if I have dropped any stitches. Believe me, when you use as many colors as I use in my designs it is very possible to miss a dropped stitch.
I like your idea of using different size markers. Great idea.
Thanks for writing.
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