Comments on: Fabby Flu-Flo

By: susan crowe

susan crowe — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:01:20 +0000

Hi Wendy

Oh! What a thrill to be “inspirational”!! Thanks!!

I didn’t have a problem decreasing in the pattern.

Here’s how I did it….

Firstly, get your head around the idea that each “hole” is created over two stitches with either “k2tog, yfwd” for a right handed slant or “yfwd, K1, s1, Psso” for a left handed slant. Think of these as pairs of stitches that go together and never do one part without the other part of the pair. (that’ll keep your number of stitches correct )

Next, I decided that I would leave a selvedge of 2 stitches of plain stocking stitch along each edge because holes right at the very edge make sewing up really hard and it looks tatty.

All you do then is….
if one of your sets of hole making stitches (“k2tog, yfwd” or “yfwd, K1, s1, Psso”) falls in the first or last 2 stitches of the row, replace the whole set with 2 knit stitches.

I hope that makes some kind of sense!

Blood Orange sounds super – what colours are you doing the fairisle in??

Susan

By: Wendy

Wendy — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:07:51 +0000

It looks great – you’ve inspired me to do it, I’d been looking at it for a while. I’m doing it in blood orange! My worry is increasing/decreasing within the pattern…you didn’t have any probs?

By: Damn, Knit & Blast It » Nicole is done - How quick???

Damn, Knit & Blast It » Nicole is done - How quick??? — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:41:22 +0000

[...] but it’s fun! If you think you recognise those buttons….they are the leftovers I had from Flu-flo! [...]

By: Maggie

Maggie — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:12:11 +0000

Well, first of all, I wish I was as slim and young as you Susan! I turned 55 yesterday and haven’t shown a photo of me wearing anything since I was 44…smile. You look beautiful in your gorgeous Flu-Flo!! I am very impressed with that knit.

By: Arianwen

Arianwen — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 07:15:15 +0000

It looks lovely. The colour is fantastic on you. You definately need to knit in more oranges!

By: Rachel

Rachel — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 21:28:38 +0000

Wow, you look amazing. It really suits you. The slightly 1940s shape is perfect for you, you look like Rita Hayworth. Glamorous to the max.

Compliments on the ultra-tidy Fair Isle too, mine never comes out like that

By: kathryn

kathryn — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:00:10 +0000

That looks lovely and perfect for cooler Summer days. The colour really suits you.

By: Diane

Diane — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 15:22:42 +0000

Gorgeous! And so fast

By: Mieke

Mieke — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 13:33:16 +0000

Wow! I really like it, the colour is great on you.

My choise would be to make it in turquoise, with the other colors (incl. the orange) for the Fair-isle. But I’m a blonde, so turqoise is a great color for me. But I think its a good color for brunettes as well.