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Oct. 29th, 2015 12:57 pmFor reasons I am attempting to cast on to knit a small purse. The pattern is the Envelope Bag from The Chicks With Sticks Guide to Knitting, and the materials list includes novelty yarn as well as worsted-weight wool, held together to knit the bulk of the purse. The novelty yarn I picked out to go with my nice navy worsted wool is Premier Yarns' Spangle (Silver Celebration colorway, which is silver and black sparkle), which is 75% nylon 25% metallic.
I cannot for the life of me figure out how to keep the wool and the Spangle at the same tension such that I can actually do a long-tail cast-on (the only kind I know) with the tails the same length. I tried tying the very ends together, but no dice; that just means the Spangle ends up straight and the wool curving.
Short of going back to the yarn store and picking up a different novelty yarn, what do I need to do here?
ETA: Turns out the answer is "cut off the unraveled end of the yarn". Oy.
I cannot for the life of me figure out how to keep the wool and the Spangle at the same tension such that I can actually do a long-tail cast-on (the only kind I know) with the tails the same length. I tried tying the very ends together, but no dice; that just means the Spangle ends up straight and the wool curving.
Short of going back to the yarn store and picking up a different novelty yarn, what do I need to do here?
ETA: Turns out the answer is "cut off the unraveled end of the yarn". Oy.
