Knitting Block

Rick Rack right side

After suffering from "knitting block" for over two weeks, I finally settled on a pattern for this yarn that I ordered with a specific person in mind.  I like the colors so much that I wish I had ordered more than one scarf's worth.  And now the colorway, Knit Picks "Nevermore," is discontinued.

The cast-on edge of the yarn is fuzzy because I probably cast on over 20 times, in different patterns, including, at first, the Rick Rack design.  I did want to make this Rick Rack scarf from the very beginning, but the first time I started it, the stitches were too tight and hard to knit in the pattern.  I foresaw myself doing this very tedious knitting for months, so I decided to abandon the idea.  I couldn't find anything else to knit, although I did try a number of patterns.  I even paid for one of them, but still decided not to go with it.  

Rick Rack wrong side

I thought I had settled on a "cross stitch" pattern, but it was kind of annoying.  The Rick Rack pattern appealed to me again because it has the look of the "cross stitch" pattern, but it's broken by knit stitches, providing a break if the pattern is too tight or hard to knit.  Furthermore, the "wrong side" is not objectionable.  In fact, it looks pretty normal, like 1x1 ribbing with slightly wide stitches.


Even in this pattern, I cast on 7 times with 3 different sizes of needles and 4 different stitch counts, settling on #7 needles and 42 stitches.

-吴碧芙