Slip Stitch Sides

This time I decided to concentrate on the sides. I am finding the Sockmatician very informative and easy to follow. I used this video to make my edges pretty. 

Well, neater. My knitting still needs work, haha.

Again for my sister, Transformers :). Her favorite is Bumblebee so I did gray and yellow. 

The pattern can be found here.

 the mess at the bottom is me just tucking the tails out of the way (besides it just being messy...)

See, you can tell the sides look so much better and they are locked together so it is not making a pocket! I really like the "Slip Stitch" technique.

Next post will be the cast on and bind off.

Double Knit Fix and My Next Challenge

I made lots of mistakes in my knitting. But that's ok, I am learning :) What is important is to not give up just because of it. So I am learning how to fix many oopsies, one at a time.

The most pressing and frustrating mistakes was losing a stitch. One of the places I went to was here.  Knitpicks' video was a very helpful, and the most comprehensive video I could find on how to pick up dropped stitches. I dropped many.

The next thing I wanted to challenge myself with was changing colors, I understand with double sided, intarsia, tapestry knitting that I am already working with 2 colors, But I was starting with those two colors and they were used throughout the whole piece. The idea of changing colors just blew my mind. I was trying to make it difficult. I hit Google up again and found these youtube videos.

AllFreeKnitting.com   and knittingtipsbyjudy


This pattern from the Geek-A-Long was my next project. Again it was too big for my comfort, so I reduced it and made this potholder, again for my sister:

I still was not crazy about the sides, cast on, and bind off, that is the next post. But a huge improvement on mistakes and catching them BEFORE getting too far!

Fun, fun, fun.