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RE: #needleworkmonday: The Dreaded Lace!
Thank you for your good tips! I really struggle with lace patterns, but I would love to make them. When I knit the yarn over in the next round, no hole builds up or one hole is bigger than the other. So, the whole knitting piece is not straight. Maybe I pull too much. I tried not to pull in any way, but then the holes are irregular, as I said before.
P.S. Just followed you and looked through your blog. I love all the knitting tutorials you've got there! I'm sure I'll be referencing them in the future :)
Great, thank you! I will post in the near future again. I just have to finish my new apartment. I like the needleworkmonday and have so many things I can post :) I follow you, too!
Hi @creative-life! Are you knitting a yarn over in the row immediately following a yarn over row? All lace patterns I've seen alternate the patternwork with a row of either purl or knit stitch. So it's row 1: lace, row 2 purl, row 3: lace, row 4: purl, etc.
Could that be what's going on? Or yeah, maybe it's just a yarn tension issue.
Yes, that is what I mean. Sorry, I am not an English native speaker. I mean 1st row yarn over, 2nd row knit. How do you get sure the holes have the same size? Do you pull the yarn or just continue?
It sounds like it may just be an issue with how you're holding your yarn and maintaining an even tension. I knit Continental style and holding the yarn that way keeps a relatively even tension and stitch size.
When I do a yarn over, I loop the yarn around the working needle, as shown in the photo above, and then just keep knitting like normal.
Here's a quick and rough video I just took of how I knit yarn overs because I think it's easier to show than describe:
Thank you sooo much! I also knit continental style as this is our style to knit in Germany! Maybe I just have to practise to find the proper tension. Thanks for the video. You explained very well.
I'm happy it helped! ☺
It would be interesting to see the back row. Maybe you can make a beginners video about lace knitting.
Ooh maybe I will make some to share here on Steemit!
Maybe it is also the yarn that I used, because I started with kid mohair yarn. I will practise with cotton yarn until I get used to the lace knitting.
Now that you mention it, the first lace project I did was a set of cotton washcloths. I usually knit with wool but maybe starting with cotton helped.