A while back I fell in love with a soft lilac silken yarn with a gentle rainbow flowing through it. This beautiful yarn was bought, and then stroked and admired and stroked again. It feels wonderful - silk and merino.
I've tried about 4 different patterns with this yarn, but the little rainbow would clump into clown barf. What was needed was a design where the rainbow could shine in lilac isolation, or be mixed gently throughout without clumping. An arrangement has been found, an 11-ish stitch scarf!
Eleven stitches were cast onto a short circular needle. The 11 stitches were knitted. Then instead of turning to purl, the stitches were slid along the length of the needle and the knit again. This produces a thin tube of knitting, with a weirdish loose section. It looks like a stitch has been dropped. The solution is simple, pretend a stitch has been dropped. Grab a crochet hook and pick up the stitch. The result is a perfect tube of knitting, 12 stitches in circumference. Twelve stitches, but only 11 were knit.
I've just tried to find a tutorial on how to knit a tube in this way, but haven't found one. Perhaps it's time to do a photo tutorial of my own.
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