November 2010 KAL ~ Part 5

Rachel's Knitting Room

November 2010 Mystery Knit Along

Sunday, November 21, 2010

PART 5 - Working a Tapered Edge and Fastening Off

Note: if you are wanting to make your piece larger than a dishcloth size you can find the original pattern here where you will find all the instructions for making it larger.

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Things You Need To Know:

• Throughout this pattern I refer to ridges rather than rows. A ridge in garter stitch is two knit rows.

• Where possible, all outside first stitches are slipped to help with the joining. I haven't put this in the instructions so as to simplify them and it's not disastrous if you forget.

• w&t (wrap and turn) is worked like this:

Bring the yarn forward, slip the next stitch purlwise, take the yarn back again, replace the slipped stitch on the left hand needle, bring the yarn forward again and turn the work.

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Begin working a tapered edge immediately after working an 8 stitch ridge from Part 4.

Then work as follows:

K8, sl 2, pick up and K1, pass both slipped sts over, turn and knit back. (9sts)

Work one 7 stitch ridge (K7, w&t and knit back)

K7, sl 2, pick up and K1, pass both slipped sts over, turn and knit back. (8sts)

Work one 6 stitch ridge (K6, w&t and knit back)

K6, sl 2, pick up and K1, pass both slipped sts over, turn and knit back. (7sts)

Work one 5 stitch ridge (K5, w&t and knit back)

K5, sl 2, pick up and K1, pass both slipped sts over, turn and knit back. (6sts)

Work one 4 stitch ridge (K4, w&t and knit back)

K4, sl 2, pick up and K1, pass both slipped sts over, turn and knit back. (5sts)

Work one 3 stitch ridge (K3, w&t and knit back)

K3, sl 2, pick up and K1, pass both slipped sts over, turn and knit back. (4sts)

Work one 2 stitch ridge (K2, w&t and knit back)

K2, sl 2, pick up and K1, pass both slipped sts over, turn and knit back. (3sts)

Work one 1 stitch ridge (K1, w&t and knit back)

K1, sl 2, pick up and K1, pass both slipped sts over, turn and knit back. (2sts)

At this point slip these 2 stitches, pick up and K1 and pass the slipped stitches over, fasten off and you’re done!

Big thank you's go out to Frankie Brown for creating such a lovely pattern and for allowing our group to use it for our mystery knit along this month! I knew everyone would find her written instructions very easy to understand!

All Frankie's ravelry patterns are free to download but, if you enjoy them, please consider making a donation to the Children’s Liver Disease Foundation, a charity which funds research and supports the families of children with a liver disease. You can do this easily by going to her fundraising page www.justgiving.com/frankiesknittedstuff

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Part 1:
http://rachelsknittingcorner.blogspot.com/2010/11/rachels-knitting-room-november-2010.html

Part 2:
http://rachelsknittingcorner.blogspot.com/2010/11/rachels-knitting-room-november-2010_16.html

Part 3:
http://rachelsknittingcorner.blogspot.com/2010/11/rachels-knitting-room-november-2010_17.html

Part 4:
http://rachelsknittingcorner.blogspot.com/2010/11/rachels-knitting-room-november-2010_18.html