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...hi I am insane.
Oct. 23rd, 2011 06:32 pmSo the fingerless-glove pattern that I am possibly going to use for the scarf-yarn-glove set, starts with 1x1 rib. My brain says, "ooh, an opportunity to try tubular cast-on!"
...which would be bad enough (not that I have anything against tubular cast-on, I've just never done it!) but then I looked at the hat pattern that I am almost definitely using, saw that it started with 2x2 rib, and the same dorky part of my brain said, "ooh, tubular cast-on for that too, gogogo!"
The more sensible part of my brain tried telling the other part to shush, but it was too late. The seed had been planted.
...I have just spent the last, oh, two hours or so, researching various methods of tubular cast-on and adaptations thereof. Yeahhh.
Standard tubular cast-on -- which basically is a seamless tube of stockinette that is then merged into a single fabric layer -- feeds very nicely into 1x1 ribbing, by virtue of the fact that the front and back fabrics alternate stitches. Feeding it into 2x2 ribbing instead is possible, but the easiest transition (having each side on separate needles, so you can just k2 from the front needle and then p2 from the back needle instead of k1/front and p1/back) comes with methods that require more fiddling, not to mention more purling; and the easier methods have harder transitions because the front and back stitches are already integrated one by one, and so you have to work half the stitches out of order.
My head kind of hurts.
Plus there's the fact that the hat pattern has you work the ribbing with smaller needles than the rest of it (size 4 instead of size 6, though obviously "as needed for gauge" is a factor), but a lot of the stuff I encountered about tubular cast-on says that it works better with a smaller needle than used for the ribbing. Whee for three separate needle sizes in a single hat!
...meanwhile the glove pattern recommends size 5 as a starting point, and the scarf is being done on size 8, and asfsafsdf how am I supposed to keep it all straight ;_;
(whiiine whine whine)
...which would be bad enough (not that I have anything against tubular cast-on, I've just never done it!) but then I looked at the hat pattern that I am almost definitely using, saw that it started with 2x2 rib, and the same dorky part of my brain said, "ooh, tubular cast-on for that too, gogogo!"
The more sensible part of my brain tried telling the other part to shush, but it was too late. The seed had been planted.
...I have just spent the last, oh, two hours or so, researching various methods of tubular cast-on and adaptations thereof. Yeahhh.
Standard tubular cast-on -- which basically is a seamless tube of stockinette that is then merged into a single fabric layer -- feeds very nicely into 1x1 ribbing, by virtue of the fact that the front and back fabrics alternate stitches. Feeding it into 2x2 ribbing instead is possible, but the easiest transition (having each side on separate needles, so you can just k2 from the front needle and then p2 from the back needle instead of k1/front and p1/back) comes with methods that require more fiddling, not to mention more purling; and the easier methods have harder transitions because the front and back stitches are already integrated one by one, and so you have to work half the stitches out of order.
My head kind of hurts.
Plus there's the fact that the hat pattern has you work the ribbing with smaller needles than the rest of it (size 4 instead of size 6, though obviously "as needed for gauge" is a factor), but a lot of the stuff I encountered about tubular cast-on says that it works better with a smaller needle than used for the ribbing. Whee for three separate needle sizes in a single hat!
...meanwhile the glove pattern recommends size 5 as a starting point, and the scarf is being done on size 8, and asfsafsdf how am I supposed to keep it all straight ;_;
(whiiine whine whine)