Knitting update

I'm working on the last panel of the poncho and decided to try out the applied I-cord that I had planned for the edging. I'm doing this for several reasons:

1. The yellow I have is in many small balls, so, if I used just that there would be a great many extra bumps in the edging.
2. I probably don't have enough yellow to do what I want.
3. Because I don't exactly know how much I will need, I'm doing a bit more than 12 inches and then I will rip that out and measure it.
4. I needed to actually try out the stitch and see if it looked OK.


#4 backfired on me - it looked awful. I could see a line of the panel colour showing through where I attached the yellow! I tried several things last night, adding a yarnover, applying it with the wrong side facing me, with the right side facing me, nothing looked good.

So I just set it aside and worked on the last purple panel. This morning I got the brilliant idear of doing a line of crochet (I'm pants at knowing what stitch I'm actually doing, I'm sticking the hook into the ladder between knit stitches, hooking a loop, bringing that loop up and then through the loop already on the needle) (this procedure is done with right side facing me) THEN with the right side still facing me, doing a 3 stitch applied I-cord. This method gets the result I wanted!

Now I just have to find the wrappers so I can determine what colour I have - there are two yellows in this Silky Wool - sunflower and gold. And it's difficult to tell which one I have from the teeny pictures I see online, plus the inevitable colour changes that occur when you post pictures on the net and view them through different monitors.

See - this is why I save all those wrappers! Although they're strewn about the house, so it's not really doing me much good at the mo! :)