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I finally get it!

I tried my first lace project several months after I began knitting a couple of years ago. I didn't enjoy it. Maybe it was the yarn (50/50 acrylic/mohair), maybe the pattern, maybe because I didn't really know what I was doing (are those ssk stitches slipped purl- or knit-wise?). It made me decidedly anti-lace. But it seems the online knitting community has been all abuzz with lace projects for the past year or so. After struggling with a serious case of knitter's block I decided to try my hand at it again. With some leftover Lorna's Laces Shepard Sock yarn and knitty's Branching Out pattern in hand, I took a deep breath and cast on.

And now I GET it. I'm having a blast! After a couple of repeats I even [gulp] decided to try it using the chart. That made it faster and more fun!

I know lace doesn't get pretty until it's blocked and I am really looking forward to finishing it up so I can see how it turns out. I used the yarn to make socks for my mom last Christmas so if it comes out nice I will give her the scarf for Mother's Day.

Anyway, I knew you guys would understand my excitement. And thank you for passing on the lace bug!

Hope everyone's having a nice week, LauraJ

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Laura J
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Great news! I do hope we all get to see a picture when you are done. :)

VP

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Vintage Purls

Thanks, VP! The picture will depend on how well it comes out :)

LauraJ

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Laura J

In case that was a serious (as opposed to rhetorical) question: In an ssk one slips as if to knit. The "rule" is that you slip to knit if the stitch will immediately be reworked (as in an ssk), slip to purl if you will be moving on after you slip.

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fiberlicious

So my sock pattern has slip one-knit one-pass slipped stitch over - I'm reworking the slipped stitch so it should be slip as to knit, right?

Alison

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Alison

It was rhetorical but that's okay - I'm glad you answered because I had never heard that "rule"! Thanks!

LauraJ

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Laura J

Neither have i heard of `that rule` , could you explain it ? i mean origin and reason. mirjam

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Mirjam Bruck-Cohen

I've heard of that "rule" but I've also heard that if you do an SSK slipping the first stitch as if to knit and the second stitch as if to purl, it looks different, and some people say it looks more attractive. I don't know if that applies to lace, though.

-- Stef ** snipped-for-privacy@cat-and-dragon.com

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**after renga had been elevated to a "true artform" and had become therave in Japan, a fledgling poet...approached Basho and asked, "How do Ibecome a renga master?"...Basho...said, "Learn the rules, then forget'em." -- T.L. Kelly
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Stef

RIGHT! Have fun!

Reply to
fiberlicious

No idea about origin but here's the reason: Unless you knit Eastern Uncrossed (or some other non-traditional way that results in the stitches being seated untraditionally on the needles), slipping purlwise simply transfers the stitch without altering it in any way. Slipping knitwise twists the stitch, which affects how the slipped stitch sits once it has been reworked.

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fiberlicious

That's if you're going to work the stitch on the next row. For a slipped stitch that's passed over the next stitch, you want to slip it knitwise so it lies flat on the row you're working.

sue

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suzee

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