Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Conquering Nupps

What can I say about nupps.
Nupps suck.
Nupps are so not fun.
Nupps are a pain in the ass.
Nupps make my hands cramp.
And did I mention nupps suck.

But but when you conquer them and can manipulate them with ease, well nupps are ever so beautiful. 
nine count them nine rows of nupps

There was a lot and I mean a lot of frogging until I got the hang of it.  It was like knit two rows frogg three, repeat. Finally I just frogged back to the first row with nupps and started over.

Went slow and easy, very very careful not to mess up until all nine rows with nupps were done. First the right side making one stitch into 7 stitches (k1,yo,k1,yo,k1,yo,k1) very very loosely.  When you look at the tutorials for nupps and they show the pic it looks like they are exaggerating but, no, that is exactly how it is done. Who knew!  Wrong side row you have to very carefully purl all of the 7stitches back to one stitch, making sure you don’t get too many or too few stitches. Ask me how I know this. Whew!
are they not beautiful

After that the last few rows were a snap, finished in a couple of days.  Yes it is done done done and ready for blocking. 
close up and personal

and yet one more angle

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