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Post by burningfeather on Aug 27, 2017 23:26:35 GMT
I can't believe I'm even asking this because I've been knitting for a long time now, but my brain isn't working right at the moment I guess.
I am in the process of finishing a fairly large, square log cabin afghan. I want to put a mitered border around it in. I know how to do the miter by knitting into the front and back of the stitch before and after the corner stitch.
But how am I supposed to deal with getting all the way around the border? I was hoping to do it in one continuous run, but even the longest cord I have for my interchangeables isn't going to come close to handling all the stitches.
I guess my options are to do each side and then join the mitered edges with a needle afterwards. Or maybe I could use 2 sets of needles, knit through one and then knit through the other?
What am I missing? Is a continuous border not a thing? (Like I said, fuzzy brain at the moment)
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Post by mimima on Aug 28, 2017 2:14:46 GMT
I know nothing about knitting, but I will bump so hopefully someone will be able to help.
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Post by KiwiJo on Aug 28, 2017 7:20:22 GMT
I can't believe I'm even asking this because I've been knitting for a long time now, but my brain isn't working right at the moment I guess. I am in the process of finishing a fairly large, square log cabin afghan. I want to put a mitered border around it in. I know how to do the miter by knitting into the front and back of the stitch before and after the corner stitch. But how am I supposed to deal with getting all the way around the border? I was hoping to do it in one continuous run, but even the longest cord I have for my interchangeables isn't going to come close to handling all the stitches. I guess my options are to do each side and then join the mitered edges with a needle afterwards. Or maybe I could use 2 sets of needles, knit through one and then knit through the other? What am I missing? Is a continuous border not a thing? (Like I said, fuzzy brain at the moment) What about knitting the border width ways - that is, cast on enough stitches to make the border the width you want, then pick up a stitch from the afghan every 2nd row to join the border on as you knit. Here's a couple of links that show what I mean: Frankie's 10-stitch blanket. You would start from the section called Joining Ridges Mitred corners |
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Post by sueg on Aug 28, 2017 7:23:22 GMT
You can fit a lot more stitches on a circular needle than it appears - they squish up a lot, but it can be done. Another option is to use more than one circular needle, like you would use double pointed needles, but much, much longer. Of course, that requires that you have more than one circular of the same needle size (they don't need to be the same length).
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Post by elaine on Aug 28, 2017 9:53:54 GMT
I can't believe I'm even asking this because I've been knitting for a long time now, but my brain isn't working right at the moment I guess. I am in the process of finishing a fairly large, square log cabin afghan. I want to put a mitered border around it in. I know how to do the miter by knitting into the front and back of the stitch before and after the corner stitch. But how am I supposed to deal with getting all the way around the border? I was hoping to do it in one continuous run, but even the longest cord I have for my interchangeables isn't going to come close to handling all the stitches. I guess my options are to do each side and then join the mitered edges with a needle afterwards. Or maybe I could use 2 sets of needles, knit through one and then knit through the other? What am I missing? Is a continuous border not a thing? (Like I said, fuzzy brain at the moment) What about knitting the border width ways - that is, cast on enough stitches to make the border the width you want, then pick up a stitch from the afghan every 2nd row to join the border on as you knit. Here's a couple of links that show what I mean: Frankie's 10-stitch blanket. You would start from the section called Joining Ridges Mitred cornersI would go with KiwiJo's suggestion and knit it sideways and pick up as you go. I'd probably make it twice as wide as I wanted the finished border and then fold over and stitch down to give a double-thickness border - like a hat brim/bottom. |
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