Knitting Lacy Patterns

I find lacy patterns so hard to knit and I think it’s because it takes so much concentration. You have to think about every stitch, and if someone talks to me mid row, I have to retrace every stitch from the beginning of the row. There’s a baby cardi pattern that I didn’t knit for my children, but I started to knit three or four times; I just couldn’t get on with it. Consequently, I don’t knit many lacy patterns.

However, whilst knitting the Naked Gardner tea cosy recently, the main cosy is a holey pattern and after a couple of repeats my holes stared appearing in the wrong places. My mind must have gone off the job. After pulling back to the correct pattern, I started again, but this time I popped a stitch marker on every time I got to the repeat star in the knitting pattern. This meant that I had the same number of stitches between the markers. Then as I worked, if my stitches didn't fit before the next stitch marker I knew something was amiss. And so fewer stitches to pull back if I did go wrong.

I thought it was a great little tip that I needed to share on my tips page.


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