Garter Slip Stitch

Garter Slip Stitch

This one is perhaps the simplest slip stitch of all.Garter Slip Stitch. It gives quite a dense, firm stitch unlike ordinary garter.  If you like the texture of garter stitch, but want less of the stretch, then this is really useful. A little boring in a single colour, it takes on a little life when you use two colours and here I tried two shades of green.  I could see it on pocket flaps and cuffs, on hats.  Possibly not very exciting made up into a bag,  but it would do a nice firmly structured jacket.

The two shades of green look good in real life, but don't come across well on the screen.  I'll have to look for colours that 'pop' more.  Something I have learned - think about the medium.

Always worth taking a look at the wrong side.  Rather a nice effect.  

Multiple of 2 + 1
Cast on in Main colour
1st row : (right side) using Main colour, knit
2nd row  : Knit
3rd row : Using Contrast colour, k1, *sl 1 purlwise, k1; rep from * to end.
4th row : Using Contrast, knit.
Rep. these 4 rows

Perhaps I shouldn't have started

Part way towards smocking

You know how it is when you think perhaps you shouldn't have started.  I'm making what I hope will be a Christmas gift (I'm not prepared to admit what it's supposed to be yet).  Got carried away and didn't read the pattern properly before I started.  It has smocking on it and this smocking is achieved by Tw2R and Tw2L. 

The second one takes some getting used to.  (and I don't think I'm doing it right), A couple of hours of this and my fingers are really stiff.  And then when you have done all that you have to stitch all the diamonds into place so that it really looks like smocking.  Oh deary me.

Tw2R
K into front of second st on left-hand needle, then P into front of first st, slipping both sts off needle together

Tw2L
P into back of second st on left-hand needle, then K into front of first st, slipping both sts off needle together