Skylla

[Zabet]

Page 38, under column Squid, row 8 should read as follows:

Row 8: sl1, m1, k1, (k1 below, sl top st), (k1, sl1) three times, (k1 below, sl top st), k1, m1, k1

Thanks, Ann!

[pensezbleue]

Can anyone help me with the squid pattern in the book? (Sorry if I am putting this in the wrong section!) I want to count how many stitches I should have after each row under the Squid column. I keep recounting and keep getting messed up. Obviously, I need an abacus. If I could compare with someone else or get any help possible, I would truly appreciate it! Also, where in any of the squid oor tentacule patterns does it ever say to make a bobble? I think I have been focusing on the pattern so much I have become blind to it.

[pensezbleue]

I swear every time I do row 17 I never have enough stitches at the end for k4. It is just me right?

[Alyoops]

I don't have the pattern with me (it's at my other house) but I think that bobbles should be on the tentacles. If they're there at all. 

Also, are you counting the numbers from the pattern? If so, count all of them using tallies on scrap paper, then write it down at the end of each row ON the pattern (in pencil).  Do all the rows once and then see if they make sense.  Only if they don't should you recount things.

Sorry I cna't offer any specific help- other then this should be in the "Book" section.  Don't make a new post, I think someone will move this.

[Zabet]

I'm not sure if this will help (I've not managed to make a Skylla yet), but Robyn Wade (who did the Immaculate Heart) and another one of my SNB'ers had problems with stitch counts and here's what they came up with:

Okay, here are my notes written in Robynese so a professional might want to rewrite them

Note: my rewrites only concern the stitches on the facing side of the double knitting, you are still slipping all of the stitches on the other side with the exception of the edgings which are written outside of the brackets.

Row 16: Sl1, ssk, k2, [k2, m1, k3, m1, k2] k2, k2tog, k1
Row 17: Sl1, k3, [k2, m1, k3, m1, k2] k4
Row 18- 19: as is
Row 20: Sl1, ssk, k1, [k3, m1, k3, m1] k1, k2tog, k1
Row 21: Sl1, k2, [k3, m1, k3, m1, k3] k3
Row 22-23: as is
Row 24: Sl1, ssk [k3, m1, k5, m1, k3] k2tog, k1
Row 25: Sl1, k1 [k3, m1, k5, m1, k3] k2
Row 26-27: as is
Row 28: Ssk, [k3, m1, k7, m1, k3] k2og
Row 29: Sl1, [k3, m1, k7, m1, k3] k1
Row 30-31: as is

The problem with the pattern is that in each instance of the (KSl inc) there either should have been the removal of a (k1, Sl1) or it should have been clearer in the instructions that the (k1,sl1) was that of a previous pair and not an additional set. I also found the m1 increase to be way easier to do after the fact than the tbl that was called for since to doesn't require the person to find the old stitch and maneuver around the slipped stitch. It also looks neater.

Hope that helps!

[Poison Ivy]

Here's mine!!!!!

I knitted it with black bamboo yarn held together with this black string with beads attached at random intervals.

Note: this pattern is NOT one to do with 2 yarns held together.

Another note: this pattern requires the utmost concentration. Srsly, yo.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ivyspoisonpics/3865167331/

[Wendie]

Pretty, I love the beads they are a nice touch.  Isn't that pattern double knit?

[Poison Ivy]

Yep.

[Sparrow]

Gorgeous!  (I love whatever fabric it's laying on, too...)

[Poison Ivy]

It's my bag.

[Sparrow]

Love the octopus print.  Maybe I'll decorate my bathroom in octopus.

[Erus]

Maybe I'll decorate my bathroom in octopus.

I had a pal who did her guest bathroom in "psycho" motif. Film strips decor, with a tiny (fake) hole in the wall for peeking.. and a swing away framed picture on the opposite side of the wall (In the "family" room) with a lil pic of a naked girl in the shower behind it. It was cool.
She had a knife mounted by the towel racks, etc. too fun.

*Semi related.
Based on the fact odd coincidence that I "happen" to own an old (working, by the way) sleazy motel coin operated "Magic Fingers" vibrating bed massager unit, Silver and I are going to do our (eventual) guest room in fly-by-night cheap No-Tell Motel motif, complete with t.v. remote bolted to nightstands, generic starving artist prints screwed into the walls, suspicious bedspread, open closet with no-steal-em hangers on rod, and "check out" notice stuck to the inside of the door.

I've probably mentioned this before.

[cats-creations]

I want to make Skylla for my friend but this is my first venture into dp knitting. Are there any tricks to this or do I just need to keep plugging away until it makes a dent?

[Poison Ivy]

PAY ATTENTION TO EVERY LINE of this pattern.

And it helped me to count how many stitches there should be for EVERY LINE. And note it on the pattern. Before you start. Seriously. This saved me a lot of unknitting and starting again.

[cats-creations]

Thanks Ivy! x