The Knitting Fiend

I have some yummy red mohair in my stash. I decided it would be perfect for a a red capelet to wear during the holiday season. It’s a hand knitting yarn, so I’m in the process of converting my machine knit capelet pattern generator to a hand knit version.

Creating the generator is a little tedious….. I decided I want to knit the cape from the neck down. That way, I can try the cape on and decide when it’s long enough. (Or figure out I’ve used up all my yarn and bind off! ) But, I also want to raise the back neck relative to the front neck. So, I need to describe working short rows, and increasing starting both at the same time– immediately after the cast on.

Knitting it is going to be easy, but I need to figure out how to explain doing both at the same time. Writing clear directions wouldn’t be so hard if this were a static pattern. I could just write out the first “so many” rows explicitly. But, this is a generator, so I don’t know what the number might be in advance.

Oh well. I’ll give it whirl. I think this generator is going to involve a cheat sheet for the first 10 or so rows of knitting. After that, the whole procedure becomes mindless.

Oh.. I’m knitting the swatch. Tomorrow, I’ll show you the yummy yarn!