In Which the Pirate Has More Success.

After the complete failure in every way of my attempt at tuck lace, I decided to go back to fair isle and make… something. A wrap? a scarf? A very large swatch? Whatever. I picked out some of the coned cotton that Dawn gave me and cast on, and before I knew it, I had 300+ rows of error-free (if a little loose) knitting.

It didn’t take long for me to decide that this cotton is too heavy to be a good scarf, this piece isn’t wide enough to make a comfy wrap, and therefore I should put buttonholes in the second hem and make it into a pillow cover. So I guess I’m going to learn to make buttonholes! Mom has a multi-generational button box, and I bet I can find something quirky and cute to use. The real trick is going to be deciding which ones, I’m sure.

My new machine didn’t come with an instruction manual (I knew that before I bought it.) The book’s available as a scanned pdf online, but I was getting frustrated at trying to flip back and forth between pages, so I bought a used copy and I can already tell that it will be helpful. I also found a pdf version of a book called “Brother Knitting Techniques,” which is currently open to a set of pages with instructions on how to make buttonholes several different ways.

The difference in complexity between the KH230 carriage and the KH940 carriage is pretty significant: