Nerds unleash their inner beardos
Posted on September 5, 2011 by
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Update: This pattern is now available as a PDF download in the shop for only $1.99!
Had a great time selling my craft kits and sewing patterns at Fan Expo this year. Best part? Watching all sorts of people try on the sample beard from my beard knitting kit!
Lee on October 28th, 2011
I’m having a terrible time with this pattern, specifically the wrap and turn…I’ve looked at Youtube videos but it’s not working for me past row 1 (!) Help!!!
Joanna on October 28th, 2011
Try this (regardless of whether you’re wrapping a purl or a knit stitch):
Pass the yarn in front of the stitch to be wrapped, and move the stitch to the right needle (don’t stitch into it)
Wrap the yarn to the back of the stitch and turn your work (the stitch will now be on the left needle because you turned the beard, although you haven’t moved it anywhere)
Slip the stitch to the right needle, and work the row. (this is why each row starts with a slipped stitch—it not only makes for a clean edge, but it helps with the wrapped stitches).
Have you ever made a sock with a short-row heel? If so, it’s exactly like that but done with seed stitch instead of the usual stockinette.
For later on in the pattern when you work the wrapped stitches, it’s just like knitting or purling two stitches together, but instead of two stitches you’re working the stitch and it’s wrap together as one.
erica on December 4th, 2011
I too am sfruggling with the w&t. The last post helped but on the chin once you have w&t are you basicaly only working on the centerstitches? So the slip stitch on each side haven’t been worked since the beginning?
Thanks
Joanna on December 4th, 2011
@erica You will be working on the center stitches, while working one previously wrapped stitch on each row (just like making a short row heel on a pair of socks). So for the first part of shaping the chin you’re wrapping one stitch on each row, and for the second part of shaping the chin you’re working one previously wrapped stitch on each row–does that make sense?
gayle schultz on January 17th, 2012
The price of the pattern is not $1.49 as shown, it’s $1.99.
Merrylee Celius on February 17th, 2012
Is there anyway you could do a video. I too am having a hard time understanding the w&t at the end of the row.
Joanna on February 20th, 2012
@Merrylee To do a w&t, leave the stitch to be wrapped on the left needle. Bring the yarn in front, slip the stitch to the right needle, wrap the yarn around to the back, turn your work to the other side, and slip the stitch to what is now the right needle. Basically what you’re doing is just wrapping the yarn around the base of the stitch without knitting or purling into the stitch. Later on in the pattern when you “work the wrapped stitch”, you just pick up both the stitch and it’s wrap, and knit or purl into it as one stitch.
Merrylee Celius on February 26th, 2012
Think I got it Joanna