Karen asked in a comment to my February 16 post where to find instructions on how to do a jogless join correctly. I found two sources that I thought explained the method very well. The first was a Knitting Daily video. Another is at Red Shirt Knitting. After joining a new color and knitting a complete round, you can either slip the next stitch, or you can reach down and pick up the first stitch of the new color in the previous round and knit it together with the first stitch of the second round.
I had a problem with the jogless join in Level 1 because I didn't understand a particular detail that the committee was looking for that wasn't explained in the sources I researched.
This picture will help illustrate what I THOUGHT I was supposed to do:
I started a new color (pink) at A. I knit a complete round and then picked up A and knit it together with B. Then I knit four more rounds and after I knit the last stitch in the fifth round, I changed back to white. The new white stitch is in the same column that I started in five rounds ago.
When I picked up stitch A and knit it together with stitch B, I turned two stitches into one. If A & B are now one stitch and you count the stitches in that column, you'll see that there are only four pink stitches. Every other column has five pink stitches.
If you want to have the same number of stitches in every column (which is what the committee wants) then you have to knit one extra stitch in your last round before you change colors. Here's a picture that illustrates this:
In this picture I changed to pink at stitch E and then knit one round of pink. I picked up stitch E and knit it together with stitch F (the first stitch in the second round. Then I knit four more rounds PLUS one extra stitch. Since E and F were knit together they count as one stitch. However, since I knit one extra stitch in the fifth round, the column with E and F have five stitches in it, just like every other pink column. If you're using markers to indicate the start of each round, you'll need to move your marker AFTER you make the extra stitch in the fifth round (at stitch G).
I hope this info helps. Let me know if you have any questions.
Today I bought some of those foam rubber jigsaw pieces to use as blocking boards. I spent the afternoon drawing a 1 inch by 1 inch grid on the pieces. I used them later in the day to block my finished swatch 1 and to block practice reverse stockinette pieces for swatch 2.
These are going in the empty bathtub overnight where they'll be safe from the cats and dog.
I had a problem with the jogless join in Level 1 because I didn't understand a particular detail that the committee was looking for that wasn't explained in the sources I researched.
This picture will help illustrate what I THOUGHT I was supposed to do:
When I picked up stitch A and knit it together with stitch B, I turned two stitches into one. If A & B are now one stitch and you count the stitches in that column, you'll see that there are only four pink stitches. Every other column has five pink stitches.
If you want to have the same number of stitches in every column (which is what the committee wants) then you have to knit one extra stitch in your last round before you change colors. Here's a picture that illustrates this:
In this picture I changed to pink at stitch E and then knit one round of pink. I picked up stitch E and knit it together with stitch F (the first stitch in the second round. Then I knit four more rounds PLUS one extra stitch. Since E and F were knit together they count as one stitch. However, since I knit one extra stitch in the fifth round, the column with E and F have five stitches in it, just like every other pink column. If you're using markers to indicate the start of each round, you'll need to move your marker AFTER you make the extra stitch in the fifth round (at stitch G).
I hope this info helps. Let me know if you have any questions.
Today I bought some of those foam rubber jigsaw pieces to use as blocking boards. I spent the afternoon drawing a 1 inch by 1 inch grid on the pieces. I used them later in the day to block my finished swatch 1 and to block practice reverse stockinette pieces for swatch 2.
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| I drew the lines on these myself. |
These are going in the empty bathtub overnight where they'll be safe from the cats and dog.
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