Okay this WIP post is a little backwards! You got to see my finished Uki cowl in the pattern release, but now I’m going to show you a little bit about how to make it.
This pattern starts off with a provisional cast on and the smaller needles. My favorite cast on is simply to knit a few rows using waste yarn, so that’s what I did. (I worked one drop stitch section before I started documenting, to make sure I did it correctly.)
Then we get onto the business of setting up for the dropped stitches. It’s very important that your row with yarn overs is correct.
Then I knit, knit, knit with the larger needles until I worked the number of rows specified in the pattern.In the below picture, you can see how just a few inches of knitting transforms into many after you drop the stitches! This is what makes it such a fast knit.
Now it’s time to drop the column of stitches that that started with a YO down. This is the row that I made sure to do un-distracted. I tried to drop one section while hanging out with other people and it did not go well! I had to put it away and fix it when I had some quiet time. Dropping these stitches will only take a minute, so you don’t need to carve out a chunk of time. You just need 3 minutes of focus.
Knit One,
Drop One: slide the next stitch off the left needle,
repeat to the end of the row…
Every few stitches I stopped and ran my finger along the column I was dropping to make certain that it was the same column that starts with a YO. If it’s not and you allow the stitches to drop, you’ll drop them all the way to the CO edge.
Next comes the fun part! It’s time to manipulate the fabric to get the stitches to actually drop down. You could easily wait until you’ve done all your sections, but I liked to check for two reasons. The first is to make absolute certain that you’ve dropped the right column. The second is that the scarf grows so much in length, I want to feel like I accomplished something determine how long my scarf is so I know how many sections I want to repeat.
Sabine is a sticky yarn, so I gently tug my knitting in both directions to coax the stitches to drop and spread.
If you did this same cowl with a silkier yarn like Findley, I bet you wouldn’t have to coax the yarn nearly as much!
When you’re done, all the stitches made with the larger needle have taken up the spare room from the dropped stitches!
I hope that this helps if you get stuck. Are there any more questions about the Uki Cowl? Did you make one this weekend?