Work on the Cold Mountain continues. I’m at about 1.5 repeats of chart A. It’s taking me about two days per repeat. That is really slow, I know, but as previously mentioned, I’m rather obsessive about counting the stitches on each row repeat, since I do forget a yarn over fairly often. See full progress on Flickr.
I’m really enjoying the knitting, as evidenced by the fact that I’ve pretty much given up on everything else I was knitting. However, I am increasingly frustrated by the ladders that are showing up where I have stitch markers. See below:
They’re not as obvious as on the first repeat, but they’re still visible. I suppose once it’s done and full length, perhaps I’ll notice them less, but I do think that this will be a gift knit at some point, so I want it to look great. I bought smaller stitch markers, but apparently not small enough. I tried to tighten up the tension after the markers, but this is difficult, and once I even managed to break the yarn doing this, so you can imagine how frustrating that was.
TECHknitting has some suggestions for reducing ladders, but they mostly relate to knitting with DPNs. The suggestion for stitch markers is to use scrap yarn as a marker, since they will be even closer to the size of the yarn. I think I might have to resort to this, though I really do like my little markers. I feel like yarn will be harder to use, but I guess you never know until you try, right? Anyone else have this problem? What do you do to solve it?
