Please Help Me Knit a 'Corner'/I asked ... (Merged)

s0nya · 02-19-2007, 05:21 PM

Hi!
I'm making a baby bib from the Mason Dixon Knitting book but I wanted to elongate the arms, and I wanted to make the one arm 'turn a corner' if you know what I mean? so that it goes around the back of babys neck and over to the other arm. Does that make sense?

So say I have 10 stitches on the needle, and I want to make it turn the corner. It can be round or square I don't care, but if anyone knows how to do this pleaaaaaaase help a girl out!!

Thanks.
tricia.

s0nya · 02-20-2007, 10:41 PM

But I did not get an answer, so maybe it will help if I post it here. I'm trying to make a corner (preferrably square, but round would be OK). I'm knitting a baby bib from the Mason Dixon book. the one arm instead of it just being straight i want it to round a corner. I assume there is some sort of increase/decrease type thing that I need to do to do this but I can't figure it out. If anyone can help me I would be very appreciative. Thanks!

tricia.

ekgheiy · 02-21-2007, 01:08 AM

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ecb · 02-21-2007, 04:45 AM

I do not now the pattern
but it sounds like its a baby bib with sleves attached
and you want there to be a bit of a bib in the back to atach the backs of the sleaves together?
that would be a bit more like a shrug
or a dickie with sleaves attached

does that sound like what you want?

ecb

s0nya · 02-21-2007, 04:56 AM

I want to first explain this is not MY picture or my knitting but I needed a picture, I guess, to explain. This is the bib:

see how the arms are both just straight? Well, I wanted to take the one arm and make it go across to the other arm (where the back of baby's neck would be). so like, an upside down L type thing. I know this is terribly hard to explain, but I'm sure there is a way to do it, I just can't figure out how!

Thanks!
tricia.

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PCwombat · 02-21-2007, 05:28 AM

Could you just knit the pattern as is, and after you're done, pick up stitches on the one side, and knit out? That might be the easiest way.

s0nya · 02-21-2007, 05:43 AM

I guess I could do that, it's just that I've seen some 'angle' knitting that i thought would be cool to do on it. that's what I was looking for. it's so hard for me to explain. But maybe I will try that if no one can point me in the right direction.

tricia.

suzeeq · 02-21-2007, 05:52 AM

Originally Posted by s0nya

I want to first explain this is not MY picture or my knitting but I needed a picture, I guess, to explain. This is the bib:

see how the arms are both just straight? Well, I wanted to take the one arm and make it go across to the other arm (where the back of baby's neck would be). so like, an upside down L type thing. I know this is terribly hard to explain, but I'm sure there is a way to do it, I just can't figure out how!

Thanks!
tricia.

CO however many sts you bound off for the lower part.

sue

Emeraldcutie · 02-21-2007, 01:59 PM

After you get the arm to the length you want, you could short row to get it to turn right.

Here's a dish cloth pattern I like that is done with short rows, you would just do one repeat to make a right hand turn.

http://1870pearl.typepad.com/my_weblog/

if you go here and look at the right menu bar it says 4 corners discloth. Its a word doc download. you would follow one repeat, or as how many stitches you have.

That should give you a right hand turn.