Knitting

[atherleisure]

My pineapple is growing very slowly, but I've been working on it when I get the chance. One of those chances was a few free minutes before an appointment last night. I was knitting along and found that my beads were getting into my fingers. There was a knot in the thread that the beads couldn't slide over. Cut thread, restring beads, join in the new piece. That's the second discontinuity I've found in this spool of thread. The one I used for the miser's purse did not have this problem. I hope that's the last of the difficulty.

On another knitting topic, I ran across a knitting stitch I've never seen in a pattern I was reading this morning - knit five together. I'm not quite sure how you would accomplish that. Slip three, knit two together, pass the slipped stitches over?

Comments

[ashamanja-babu.livejournal.com]

I have seen a K5tog or even a k7tog in those crazy Estonian lace shawls, when you are making the nupps. You really just have to knit all the stitches together in one go.

[atherleisure.livejournal.com]

Yuck. I can't knit three together, never mind five. I saw a crochet hook method online that sounds like it would be a bit of a pain but might actually work.

[mala-14.livejournal.com]

How annoying! I hope the rest of the thread is good.

I've seen at least one vintage lace pattern that had a knit 5 together. I assumed it was done the normal way and would just be really difficult to do. But I know very little about knitting, so take my knitting thought with several grains of salt.

[atherleisure.livejournal.com]

I've seen recommendations to do a k3t as both knitting three stitches as one stitch and as slipping one stitch, knitting two stitches as one, and passing the slipped stitch over. I do the latter because I find the former nearly impossible. I can't imagine trying to do it with five stitches. I looked online and saw someone recommend doing it with a crochet hook, which sounds like it might actually work.