My new knitter is ordering yarn for her first “real” project — Plymouth Encore, to knit a baby blanket for a pregnant friend.
I found a pattern online for a basketweave baby blanket. It has a knitted-on lace edging that I think is a bit advanced for her, so I’m rewriting the pattern with a garter stitch border.
We’re very excited!
You said you didn’t trim your steeks or stitch them down, so why don’t I see any yarn ends? I’m having trouble understanding how it looks so nice and neat without weaving in ends or stitching them down as someone mentioned. I really and truly don’t see a single yarn end in the photo above. Maybe I am misundertanding what you mean by “trim the steeks” since I have never knitted a fair isle. I really want to some day soon, though.
A fair question.
Yesterday’s photo showed the inside of the front bands flanked by my untrimmed steeks. The yarn ends were in the center of the front steek. When I cut the steek down the middle, I cut off all the ends. No weaving in, no tying off, just trim them off.
But the steeks themselves are not trimmed. Most steeks are 8-10 stitches wide. You cut down the center and that’s 4-5 stitches per side. Then most directions tell you to trim the steeks to a two-stitch width after you have picked up your stitches and completed your knitting. That’s what I didn’t do — trim them to a two-stitch width. I never do.
Here she is:
So far, way fun to knit!
Though Lucy apparently has other things on her mind.