A while ago I started an experimental knit that I intended to serve as a base for a crochet design of leaves and vines.
What happened to that?
This. The rolling up just never resolved itself. The more I knitted the tighter and higher it rolled.
OK, so experienced knitters will be saying I’ve done something wrong and I accept that.
Too tight? Nope, as loose as possible with yarn no thicker than a regular two ply, knitted on 4mm knitting pins.
Weird yarn? Maybe. 60% cotton, 40% viscose. No spring in it. At all.
Wrong stitches? Very possible. Stitches in the body of the work are fine. Loose and drapy as desired.
Increasing at the beginning of each row? The problem has to be there! Ffor the purl, rear of the work, row I increased by sticking pin into back of first loop, knitting that plain, then bringing knitting needle forward to knit a purl and continuing with a purl line.
Did the opposite at the front of the work, making a stitch at the beginning of the row by knitting a purl, yarn to the back then knitting a plain and coninuing in plain.
These made nice edges, one that I’d never seen before on the purl side of a work …
And yet, by the time I’d knitted twenty rows the first five had rolled up. After I unpicked those first five—with difficulty—the next five rolled up as I was doing it.
By sixty rows, the first fifteen had rolled up. No matter how I draped and folded the resulting cloth the bottom rolled up. By the time I’d knitted eighty rows I knew I had a twisted disaster and finished it off.
I may deconstruct it and use the yarn for another project, but this was already the second knit that that yarn featured in. Not sure how well it’ll stand up to the strain of pulling apart again.
Note that I said ‘twisted disaster’ …
Rita de Heer 