![]() (For some reason, I trust myself to work the increase, but not to move the marker.) ![]() Simple but effective, and it has a fail-safe: If you forget to move the marker, you can count back, secure in the knowledge that there should be an increase every 3rd garter ridge. And it’s also time to move the marker up to the last garter ridge before the KFB row. When I can count 3 garter ridges above the marker, it’s time to work a KFB at the beginning of the the next row. My gizmo of choice: a removable stitch marker. I end up gaslighting myself: Did I make a mark? Did I not make a mark? I have to devise a way to count rows in the knitting itself. Row counters-mechanical or jotted on scrap paper-don’t work for me, because I can’t be trusted to do a click or make a mark for every row. Unable to distinguish the previous KFB, I couldn’t simply read my knitting and count back to the last KFB to know when it’s time to work the next KFB. I kept messing it up and not knowing where I was. There was one challenge, however: keeping track of when it was time to increase with a KFB (knit into the front and back of the stitch) at the beginning of every 6th RS row. You would think (as I did) that the long, plain garter tips of Version B would be automatic-pilot knitting. To see it is to touch it, and to touch it is to knit it, and to knit it is to be in a position to die happy. It has a liquid-y kind of color that you just want to touch. ![]() There was nothing fancy about the knitting (yet), but there is something so compelling about the yarn, Amores Raíz. Monday night, my synagogue-gals knitting group (the mighty Balabustas!) laid eyes on my Superscript Shawl-in-progress and went kind of nuts over it, although I was still knitting the long, plain garter tail that kicks off Version B. ![]()
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