ESK KAL- FREESTYLE!
MAY 2016.

-Walk like an Estonian (20 pts)

Thoughts from other projects.
-So as not to run out of yarn, maybe do 12 repeats of the Flower Chart.
-Use markers as liberally as needed
-Weigh Your skein and then decide if you’d like to do Nupps, though they’re kinda why I chose this project.
-Take deep breaths, it’s not complicated so much as it’s fiddly and not to be rushed!

May 3-
Cast-on.
Knit Setup Chart.
Knit 3/12 repeats of Flower chart.
3 down, 9 more to go.

May 4-
Knit 1/12 repeat of Flower chart.
4 down, 8 more to go.

May 5-
Knit 3/12 repeats of Flower chart.
7 down, 5 more to go.

May 6-
Knit 2/12 repeats of Flower chart.
9 down, 3 more to go.

May 7-
Knit 2/12 repeats of Flower chart.
11 down, 1 more to go.

May 8-
Knit 1/12 repeats of Flower chart.
12 down, 0 to go!
Knit first 6/16 rows of Echo Flower Border charts.
Now onto Nupps!
Knitting Nupps using technique shown in this video.
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Okay, so about that technique. I have NO IDEA where my larger crochet hooks got off to so I tried loosely doing it with a 3.5 mm one. No dice, they were sloppy, loose, and pretty small. After the first row, I went back to doing them the traditional way and I’m much happier with the look of them.

So Flower Border chart rows 1-10 complete today.

May 9-
Flower Border Charts complete!
Knit 2/8 rows of Flower Edge Chart.

May 10-
Finished row 3-8 of Flower Edge Chart.
Flower Edge Chart Complete!

May 11-
Bind-off Complete!
Note: Bind-off used 5g ( 44 yards) of yarn alone!
Blocked!

Final Thoughts: This pattern was not necessarily difficult, but very easy to mess up… but so is most lace. I found the traditional method of making nupps to be easier than trying to hack them, and the “Make 3 into 9”’s harder than that. If I knit it again, I would probably bind off knit-wise rather than purl-wise. Or do a Lace bind-off which was my first instinct and I ignored it.