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Errata for Wrought Iron Tote

In 2014, shortly after my Wrought Iron Tote pattern was published in Knitting Architecture, Tanis Gray's collection of architecture-inspired designs, I realized that I had omitted the instructions for the contrasting strap edging (an attached I-cord). So I emailed Tanis, and she forwarded my email with the missing instructions to Interweave, to be added to the Interweave website book errata page. (If you scroll down the page to "Knitting Architecture" and click on the link, that will download a zip file that contains the book errata; the file with the Wrought Iron Tote errata is titled "KA_p46-47_web.pdf." Or just click on the link at the bottom of this post.)

I just realized this, because yesterday I got an email from a knitter, saying that the instructions for the strap edging in the pattern photos seemed to be missing from the book pattern. So I found my five-year-old email to Tanis and her response, and then went to the Interweave website. I got excited when I saw the errata file, because it appeared that the book PDF had actually been corrected, and I thought that maybe, if you now purchased the e-book, you would receive the corrected version. How cool would that be! 

Unfortunately the book is no longer available from Interweave; which now has only 32 of their many knitting book titles available on their website. Amazon and Barnes & Noble had both the paperback and the e-version (Kindle and Nook, respectively). After some consideration (and looking at the free sample, hoping it would include the Wrought Iron Tote pages), I decided satisfying my curiosity was worth $10.99, so I purchased the Kindle version. Sadly the corrections WERE NOT THERE. Oh well.

Anyway, click on the link below for the corrected pattern pages.

Download Wrought Iron Tote corrections

Errata for Truro Hat

An alert knitter has informed me that there is an error in the Truro Hat crown decreases. For the version of the pattern purchased before today (March 31st, 2018), Decrease round 3 should be omitted, and Decrease round 4 should be the third and final decrease round. Patterns purchased
after 3/31/2018 have been corrected.

Errata for Dragon Lace Pullover

The chart symbol for "purl on RS, knit on WS" (a dot inside the stitch box) was omitted from the chart key. This error has been corrected on patterns purchased on or after 6/6/13.

Errata for Arc & Line Cowl

On the final decrease round before top ribbing, the * at the beginning of the sentence has been omitted. Should read: Next Rnd *[K2, p2] 5 times, k1, k2tog, p2, k2, p1, p2tog, [k2, p2] 2 times; rep from * one more--72 sts rem.

Errata for Bunny Yoke Pullover for Babies and Children

For patterns purchased before March 8, 2012: Chart rows are numbered incorrectly: #16 appears twice. So charts in fact have 21 rows, not 20.  Patterns purchased after 3/8/2012 have been corrected.

Errata for Cambia Capelet

Patterns purchased before 1/1/2012: Some of the asterisks referred to in pattern instructions ("rep from * to end of rnd") are missing. In every case, the asterisk should have been placed at the very beginning of the sentence. (Patterns purchased after 1/1/2012 have been corrected.)

Errata for Circles Vest

Stitch counts for the front sections immediately after “Divide for Front & Back/Shape Armholes” are wrong, because they don’t take into account the sts already decreased by the neck shaping. Here are the correct Front stitch counts (Back stitch counts are fine): 31 (35, 40, 43, 48, 51, 56, 60). These are calculated using the row counts given in the pattern, so if you are just measuring the work in progress to decide when to begin neck and underarm shaping, these counts could be off by a stitch (shouldn’t be more than that unless your row gauge is way off). 

Errata for Seaweed Vest from Brave New Knits

For Left Front and Right Front, yarn should be joined with WS facing-- not RS.

Errata for Lace Cable Rib Pullover

Applied I-cord section: After casting on 3 sts for I-cord, directions should read: *K2 (not 1), ssk. For patterns purchased after November 4, 2010, the pattern pdf has been corrected.

Brain Coral

 

I was thrilled when Tanis Gray emailed me two months ago, and told me that my Vine and Leaf Beret would be on the cover of the fall Vogue Knitting.  

I was actually asked by Tanis to submit ideas for hat patterns for this issue, and since my favorite part of creating hat patterns is working out the crown decreases so they flow from the stitch pattern, I immediately went to my stitch dictionaries and searched for patterns that I thought would adapt nicely to decreasing rapidly-- usually for the flat part of a beret, the decreases work out to approximately 7 or 8 stitches decreased in every round (or something equivalent, i.e. twice as many stitches decreased every other round).  Once again, one of my Japanese stitch dictionaries provided the inspiration; when I saw the stitch pattern I adapted for the Vine & Leaf Beret, I immediately thought of rapidly decreasing every other rep down to a single stitch, and then following with the other reps.  This is another fun knit, and quick!  I highly recommend it.

(If it was up to me, I probably wouldn't have chosen this yarn color.  Having said that, I do like the finished product-- but given the rosy color, the groovy texture, and the fact that it sits on your head, I DEFINITELY would have named this pattern "Brain Coral".)