Customer Reviews
- beautiful, unusual patterns; one error Review by Carol Harris
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I only bought the book yesterday so obviously I haven't tried all the patterns yet! But many of the pictures show unusual, very lacy items that I can't wait to make. In fact, I've done almost nothing but play with the book and drool over it since I downloaded it yesterday afternoon. I work better from charts so I made myself a chart of the doily on page 28, which looks like it's going to work just fine. Then I thought I would chart the Deep Wave edging on page 34, which was more challenging because the number of stitches in the row varies quite a bit. So I started knitting the edging; got two repeats done and it is gorgeous --- except that the heavy lines framing the wave in the openwork centre were broken. I didn't see this break on the picture; the lines are perfect there. In charting I had found it a little odd that there were two decreases side by side in row 3 (which doesn't happen anywhere else in the pattern). In fact, this seemed to be what was causing the break. I replaced "2 together, 2 together, knit 2" by "2 together, knit 1, 2 together, knit 1" and it has fixed the problem: I have knit two more repeats with the corrected instructions and the lines seem to be right now. (I'm publishing this here to help others who encounter the same problem; if this isn't the right place, could you please move it or tell me where I should publish it.) One final comment. I'm not sure what your audience is for these books, but it might be useful to indicate that "forward" = yo (I suppose it is fairly obvious). Also, is it actually true that the only single decrease these old patterns ever used was k2tog, or when they say "2 together" can it actually be k2tog or ssk (or even p2tog...) depending on the context? It's hard to tell from the pictures. Overall a very interesting book which I expect will give me many more hours (days, weeks?) of knitting pleasure! Thank you for making this available!
(Posted on 12/14/11)