…and finally have a perfect graft between the two ends of my scarf. Since I always seem to end up with an extra stitch or two at the end, I thought I would try the method where you add some waste yarn and then sort of trace the stitches of the waste yarn as you join the two pieces together.
Well, I added the waste yarn, as you can see, and began to try grafting. It was a disaster. I couldn’t tell if I was even joining the ends or just looping near it. Of course, I had no directions, so that didn’t help. In the end, I just took out the waste yarn, got out my trusty friend and did it the old fashioned way. And darned if it didn’t come out perfect this time? No extra stitches at the end.
Here she is, all blocked and with the lace opened up nicely.
I’m off to Memorial Park in Pasadena, CA for the Knit in the City event, where I will be handing over the scarf, and teaching some new folk to knit. Since I learned to knit just 4 years ago at the Knit-Out 2001, at the hands of a kind woman with a great attitude, I figure it’s now my turn. Trouble is, I knit continental, and really have a hard time knitting English, so that will be hard to teach, but I am sure if I go slow, I’ll be good.
See you there!