Since Rachel asked, I thought I would post on some of the things I think have made my pooling scarf work. Trust me, it's not totally perfect when you examine it up close, but I've been pretty pleased with it for the most part.
I'm using US 4 needles with 41 stitches on the needles, as suggested by the pattern directions. I marked about 10 of the color turns prior to starting to knit. The first thing I discovered is that with most methods, the cast-on edge just can't jive with the scarf's stripes (at least I couldn't make it work). It came closest to working with a backwards loop cast-on, but with most I tried, starting precisely at a turning point that I had marked per the pattern directions, I always ended the cast-on row somewhere beyond my next turning point. I ended up using a lace cast-on, just 'cause I thought it would give the prettiest edge. But anyway, I repeated the cast-on, changing the placement of my slip knot until I knew the first row would start in the right spot.
Once I got going, and knew that I could make the stripes work, I found myself making small adjustments in tension to make everything line up the best I could. Sometimes that worked very well, and sometimes it got a little off. And I've had one occurence of an inconsistency in the dye- a small section of green ended up in what should have been brown. I initially was going to knot that repeat off, but then figured I'd have to weave in the green end anyway, so I just kept knitting.
I've got about 10 inches to go, and hopefully by tomorrow night I'll have a finished scarf and be able to turn my attention to some other things!
you are fantastic. i have no idea if i'll be able to do as well as you have, but i'll keep trying until something works. i think i need to try the drop of white out method for marking the turns. i don't have white out- so i'm on hold til i run the sunday errands. thanks so much for the help!
Posted by: rachel m. | August 29, 2004 at 08:41 AM
I agree that the pooling colors scarf needs slight tension adjustments the entire time you're knitting it. It makes it less of a TV knitting project and more of a pay attention project for me. :)
Posted by: Brynne | August 30, 2004 at 09:16 AM
Hi :) I love your scarf, and especially the lace cast-on! But how does one do that? I live in Denmark, and sometimes it can be a bit hard to find out what it is in Danish :) I've searched on the net, but didn't find any tutorials/explanations...
Elisabeth
Posted by: Elisabeth | September 02, 2004 at 05:14 PM
Hi,
I love your lacy knitting!
HOW do you do the lace cast on?
Thanks!
GL
Posted by: GL | October 08, 2004 at 09:52 AM