I might have missed it, but looks like you have decreases, but not increases. Someone already mentioned the picking up dropped stitches.
Including mini sections on "how to recognize" and "how to make that decrease look better" would be good. For example, how to make decrease stitches "slant" the "right" way... especially for those who end up doing something funky with the yarn. (ie. I have an apparently odd way of knitting that appears to be continental, but apparently the yarn slants the other way... means that even though I follow patterns, sometimes I have to double-check how the increases and decreases are done to make them "fit" the design best - seeing how they should look (and how they shouldn't) and why is helpful, even for a beginner *if* they are the engineer/logical type folks... even if they do it "right" and can follow the directions perfectly)
(BTW, I may usually use continental, but I often shift back to throwing when working something out.... because I re-taught myself to knit at some point when it had been a long time, and I'm one of those logical knitters, I always watch and work out what I'm doing as I go - and it all works out great in the end. However, if I'm following specific directions, I do just that... and see what happens as I go, so the testing should be interesting :-)
Oh, and I have no problem at all with mystery directions. Can't see what I think I should be seeing in half the photos out there (including a few close ones in a couple books I have), anyway.
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Date: 2010-06-21 04:16 pm (UTC)Including mini sections on "how to recognize" and "how to make that decrease look better" would be good. For example, how to make decrease stitches "slant" the "right" way... especially for those who end up doing something funky with the yarn. (ie. I have an apparently odd way of knitting that appears to be continental, but apparently the yarn slants the other way... means that even though I follow patterns, sometimes I have to double-check how the increases and decreases are done to make them "fit" the design best - seeing how they should look (and how they shouldn't) and why is helpful, even for a beginner *if* they are the engineer/logical type folks... even if they do it "right" and can follow the directions perfectly)
(BTW, I may usually use continental, but I often shift back to throwing when working something out.... because I re-taught myself to knit at some point when it had been a long time, and I'm one of those logical knitters, I always watch and work out what I'm doing as I go - and it all works out great in the end. However, if I'm following specific directions, I do just that... and see what happens as I go, so the testing should be interesting :-)
Oh, and I have no problem at all with mystery directions. Can't see what I think I should be seeing in half the photos out there (including a few close ones in a couple books I have), anyway.