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Old 01-25-2009, 11:38 AM   #13
Libby Cone
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Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm View Post
That requires learning to knit beyond doing scarves!
The nice thing about the Lion Brand pattern is that the final product is FELTED, so if you are learning decreases for the first time (not hard, I promise!) and make a mistake (I am a relatively experienced knitter, and I still get the count wrong sometimes), the felting conceals it. Increases and decreases are quite easy compared to knitting with double points (which I avoid like the plague) or the provisional cast-on (whichI usually get right on the third try). Unfortunately, "Knitting for Dummies" is only available in dead-tree editions in the UK. It's a great book, though.
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