Comments on: Reverse mitered square with stripes

By: Lisa Reeve

Lisa Reeve — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:37:02 +0000

Are you knitting through the back of the loops on the yarn-overs, when you come to them on the wrong side? That’s what tightens them up a little bit and they don’t look so much like holes.

By: Jnaey

Jnaey — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:10:13 +0000

I am going at a hell-for-leather pace (at least for me) with your reverse mitred square pattern.
Thank you again.

Have a question however.
My square and the square pictured above look different at the “V”. My square has holes in it (on either side of the marker) whereas yours does not seem to.
Is that merely a trick of the photograph, or did you pull a piece of yarn very tightly when knitting the front and back of the stitch? Or did you use some other of yarn hole prevention trick?

Janey
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By: Lisa Reeve

Lisa Reeve — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 02:35:20 +0000

For a faster square, you could try knitting with 2 strands of DK held together, and 6 mm or 6.5 mm needles. The blanket would be thicker and cushier, but would also eat yarn at a more rapid rate.

By: Jnaey

Jnaey — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 01:41:45 +0000

Thank you, thank you!
I shall re-double my Knitting Olympic efforts tomorrow. I only managed to get a couple of hours worth of my mitred square blanket knitted today, before housework intruded.
Tomorrow will be worse – due to work (plus three hours total driving time).
But I am ever so hopeful that your “recipe” will be a lot faster than the pattern I have been using!

Thank you again,
Janey