The Knitting Fiend

There are so many things I love about blogs.

You can go on endlessly about your hobby. People stop by and read. You can tell they stopped by from the hit counts. Best of all, sometimes, you follow your referer logs and discover someone designed and knit their own project from a stitch pattern you illustrated.

Check out Gemma’s beautiful scarf which she tells us is her first knitting project!

Based on the conversation at Live Journal, it sounds like seafoam stitch (shown right) is very popular for scarves right now. It’s pretty easy to design your own pattern for a scarf using this stitch pattern. It doesn’t curl, and the edges look pretty. So, cast on a multiple of 10 plus 7 stitches (i.e. 17, 27, 37 etc.) start working the stitch pattern, knit until it’s long enough, then bind off.

Guess what else? My description of the stitch has earned Gemma’s “idiot-friendly” seal of approval. I like that!

Meanwhile Homme77 at “one by one” used Google, and learned how to fix his twisted stitches. Whoo hoo!

Better yet, Deborah at Drive By Knitting knit both my ear flap hat and the Flying Spaghetti Monster! (Although, possibly, my short row explanation on the hat isn’t clear? I might have to show that again!)

Yep. Knit blogs are cool!