So I just finished the Echo Flower Shawl. I was blitzing through it (I did the shawlette version) and then got to the part where the nupps were involved. And then things ground to a halt.
According to the interwebs, "A 'nupp' is a small 'bobble' made out of one stitch for a small flower. To make one, you knit a stitch, do not take it off the left hand needle; and then follow the sequence *yo; k1* into the same stitch as many times as desired. On the next row all the nupp stitches are knit or purled together."
According to me nupps are something that was created by the devil. Bascially you go along and birds are singing and you start the front part of the nupp, no big. Just a few extra stitches in one stitch. Then you get to the purl row. And then the crying starts. And shortly after that the cursing. Because those 7 or so extra loops that you've added in that one stitch? Are smashed together. And getting a needle through them to purl? Is nigh impossible.
I tried w/ a crochet hook. I tried w/ a smaller needle. Eventually I was able to get through that purl row (only taking - literally - about 5 times as long as it would w/ out nupps). So I figured I'd do the loops much looser this time. Same thing happened somehow. I manage to mush everything back again. I finally figured out how to get them to work, using this video but it was too little too late. They still ended up looking manky and I cursed them every step of the way.
So nupps? Can just piss off.
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