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Permalink Reply by Peggy Stuart on November 5, 2009 at 6:42am: GO TO "MY PAGE" AND SCROLL DOWN TO "MY BLOG" CLICK ON IT AND FOLLOW THE PROMPTS. --P; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Cincyq on November 5, 2009 at 12:38pm: OK Peggy, I think I did it....sure hope it helps....thanks for the help

Permalink Reply by Susan the Blue Lake Knitter on November 3, 2009 at 11:42am: I just received my newest catalog... well, almost. Somewhere in the transit process, I lost the first 8 pages and the last 8 pages of my catalog. Wonder how the mail lady figured out who to deliver this too, because my name isn't even on it. Too wild! --S; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Cincyq on November 3, 2009 at 11:58am: YOU must be known to the mail carrier well enough that they just KNOW it was your catalog....quick call customer service and ask for another one. Seems they ( whoever sends them out) run out of them very quickly. Mine from last month got lost in a black hole between there and my home, never to be seen again. :~(; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Cincyq on November 5, 2009 at 6:50pm: I would call customer service ASAP. before they run out of the catalogs and tell them you only got half a catalog,,,bet they will send another one along to you soon....seems the distributor of the catalogs doesn't keep many spares................; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Susan the Blue Lake Knitter on November 5, 2009 at 7:04pm: I found out earlier this year that KP "does not have extra" catalogs. They have as many printed as is on their current mailing list. When those are gone, they are gone! And yes, I asked. --Susan; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Customer Service on November 6, 2009 at 11:06am: Hi Susan,

We do have some of the current catalog available - I'll be happy to send one to you if you private message me your address or customer number :)

Stacey
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Permalink Reply by Nancy Hobson on November 7, 2009 at 7:22am: Re: Knitters' Handy Carry-All
On p. 5, for the inside, the instructions say to CO 37 sts. and work for 5 1/4". The instructions then say to k 19 sts and put the remaining 17 sts on a holder.

Should I co 36 sts instead, to make the math correct?

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Permalink Reply by Customer Service on November 7, 2009 at 7:42am: Hi Nancy,

We posted some errata for this - is this the area you are talking about?

Knitters' Handy Carry-All - 40122,40123,40136

updated 10/26/2009

Odds & Ends Pocket

Next RS row: Knit across the first 19 sts of the row. Place the remaining 18 sts on a holder or scrap yarn

Sorry for the inconvenience!

Stacey
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Permalink Reply by Susan Cairns on November 7, 2009 at 1:04pm: Okay, first question is: I'm doing a simple wrap w/o a pattern in a chunky alpaca. Doing the whole thing in a moss stitch and understand that flat panel knitting gives me neat selvedges when I do a twist at the end of a row by knitting downward into the back loop of the last stitch, right? Also slipping my first stitch in the row, right?.

However, in the first 12 inches or so, I noticed that this method only worked on one side but not the other and the other was very irregular. Since the moss is reversable, I'm not sure which is the right side anymore but I'm assuming the good selvedge is on my left side when working on the right side of the knitting, yet when I move to the other side, the selvedge is yuk. I imagine this has something to do with the every other knit/purl of the moss and each row comes up a bit different but why would one edge be perfect and the other messy? I've worked it out since then by doing the opposite style twist on the other side (purl up through the back loop). This seems to be neater but still not as tight as the other side, loops are larger but at least no knots or anything. Is this right or is there a better way to get even staight edges on a moss stitch piece?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Susan the Blue Lake Knitter on November 7, 2009 at 1:25pm: Susan, I just recently learned this method, and used it on a scarf which turned out beautiful, with a very nice straight edge.
You can use this for any type pattern
Row 1: Knit in stitch pattern until the last stitch and "slip" the last stitch as if to purl
Row 2 and all following rows. : Knit the first stitch through the back loop... knit in pattern across row and 'slip the last stitch as is to purl.

This should give you as straight an edge (on both sides) as is humanly possible. --S; ▶ Reply to This