Log Cabin – I Suck at This

February 28th, 2007

Corey and me went out for a little shopping trip in the last few days, and I decided to splurge a little (with his encouragement!) on Mason-Dixon Knitting. A bit more on the book later, because this post is about those log cabins I’ve seen all over the place. While reading the book I was inspired to try it out on some cotton. I decided to whip up a dishcloth, and see how those log cabin blocks work.

Man I suck at doing these. You can see how crappy my knitting is, and how difficult it was for me to do the transitions. I learned a lot, and certainly improved towards the end. Seeing the improvement really helps to keep me from being discouraged, and I still have a desire to knit more and play around with the color arrangements. Perhaps I’ll keep practicing and knit up some more dishcloths; we do need more.

The most difficult part for me was figuring out what to do with the ending tail as I was starting a new end of yarn. If you’re familiar with log cabin blocks you’ll know what I mean. Also, at first I was knitting the second stitch of a new yarn with the tail like I normally do. This keeps the yarn from shifting around in the beginning. Somehow that seems to really mess things up, and I’ve got a few really loose loops in the corners in a few places.

I wouldn’t say that this is a difficult knit, there just seems to be a lot of details you need to get it clean and neat. Since I’m learning from a book (which I generally prefer anyway) I’m learning all of this on the fly.

The upside to this is that a dish cloth doesn’t have to look pretty to clean well!

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