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Littlemisselvis - 03 July 2009 08:33 AM

Ah ha! I get it now!! I was reading the instructions for yarn forward (in the two picture boxes) and was following that and then knitting two together separately. Thanks Suzie!! I'll return to it over the weekend and hopefully be wearing it by Monday (fingers crossed!) xx

Can't wait to see it! Glad its all straight in your mind now

wow this looks stunning on, fantastic work, sarah xx

Buzyknitting - 30 June 2009 07:15 AM

Sounds like we're going to have a mega Cerulean fashion show I'm still on the lookout for some aubergine coloured wool to do another one so if anybody sees some can you let me know please? It's a dark purple colour. Only need less than 110g so am prepared to pay a more. Can't wait to see the finished shrugs & glad you're enjoying it Katy after having to frog your last top

Buzy

hi busy
just to let you know that stylecraft have a beautiful aubergine colour in their double knit special range, it's 100% acrylic and 295m/322yds i got one ages ago from my local haberdashery for £1.19 - hope this helps at all ??

Update - I have frogged Ellie's cerulean a 3rd time back to the cuff! I made a mistake knitting in semi light and when I tried to unravel with the yarn forwards I just couldn't pick the stitches up properly. Think I'm going to leave it for tonight and have another go tomorrow. It was looking really nice too

Su2ie - 02 July 2009 10:14 PM

Hey thanks Emmilou - I've decided when I do another Renee I'm not going to do so many increases when you change to the smaller needles again as I think this might sort it out

Annie mine has a slightly different "top" and "bottom" but I don't think it really matter which way up you wear it.

Angel it makes your shrug even more individual if you didn't do the moss stitch in the in between bit

And finally, I have cast on for a cerulean for Ellie using 30 stitches and 4.5mm & 6.5mm needles and doing just a 3 stitch moss border instead of the 4

thats excellent, suz, i was thinking of making 1 for alysa once i've finished amber's as i bought 3 balls of the wendy chic and i've got a feeling i'm not going to need all of it for amber...oops,hahaha!!!
that means they'll both have red fluffy, glittery ceruleans....aaawww, how cute...

ooh suz, we must have been posting at the same time...try not to stress about it for now, hopefully it'll work out better for you tomorrow....

emmilou - 03 July 2009 09:52 PM

ooh suz, we must have been posting at the same time...try not to stress about it for now, hopefully it'll work out better for you tomorrow....

I guess that's what happens when you work in semi dark when you're tired! At least I had the sense to put it to one side for the evening

Good luck with yours and red glittery sounds great

Suzie the same thing happened to me last night. I made a mistake only to discover it later. Tried to frog to where I'd gone wrong but just couldn't pick the stitches up so had to pull it all out up to the cuff and start again. Very very tired tonight so have put it to oneside. That's the only trouble with this pattern - you cannot pick up the stitches if you pull it back. It's nigh on impossible

ooh thanks for the thumbs up annie, will keep that in mind as the wool i'm working with on this is fluffy and glittery so will have to be very careful... i was going to carry on with it very soon otherwise it'll be another long and forgotten WIP...hahaha!!!

Ah Annie you and I have pointed out the pitfalls! I was only about 20 rows into the criss cross pattern so not too bad but as I've frogged it twice now I can't help but think I would be nearly finished! 1st time was because the borders were'nt looking right as I'd downsized the pattern and 2nd & 3rd just from mistakes. And I didn't make any mistakes on the shrug for me until the very last row before the final cuff so I'm glad now I didn't rip it back and decided it wasn't noticable otherwise...... Well doesn't bear thinking about!

Emmilou you stick in there - I for one really want to see it in fluffy glittery red yarn

i've got a mistake right in the middle of mine!!!!!!! noticed it last night, sorry it will have to be unique, i'm not frogging it all back!


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No don't frog it! I did the same 1st pattern row twice at the end of mine and ended up with a straight bit instead of crisscross but thought, hey its at the end, no one will notice. With Ellie's I somehow forgot a yarn over and increased by 1 stitch too so it was quite noticable with a big blodge of knitting and no holes in the centre!

emmilou - 03 July 2009 09:41 PM

Buzyknitting - 30 June 2009 07:15 AM

Sounds like we're going to have a mega Cerulean fashion show I'm still on the lookout for some aubergine coloured wool to do another one so if anybody sees some can you let me know please? It's a dark purple colour. Only need less than 110g so am prepared to pay a more. Can't wait to see the finished shrugs & glad you're enjoying it Katy after having to frog your last top

Buzy

hi busy
just to let you know that stylecraft have a beautiful aubergine colour in their double knit special range, it's 100% acrylic and 295m/322yds i got one ages ago from my local haberdashery for £1.19 - hope this helps at all ??

Thanks emmilou. I haven't seen anywhere near me that stocks Stylecraft so will look on line & see if I can find some. Will let you know if I find some.

Buzy

hi everyone
busy - if you can't get hold of it, just PM me if you want and i'll send it to you...
su2ie - i made a mistake last night too, but cos it's fluffy wool it's not noticable, it was a stupid mistake as well, i mark off the rows that i've done and just mis-counted so i've done row 1, row 2 and then row 1 AGAIN ... also had alysa this morning saying that she wanted said shrug. when i explained to her that this one is too big and i'll make her one straight after, she said no, she doesn't want it . "but you and amber with have the same thing..." "i don't want to be the same as amber!!"....wow, talk about knowing what she wants, shes only 3...lol!!

Emmilou thats the same mistake I made on my shrug at the end! I've put my stitch counter on my needle for Ellie's shrug and just keep counting to 4 then resetting so I don't do it again

Kids eh? 3 going on 13 by the sounds of it! I'm sure Alysa will come around by the time its done though