Mosaic and Helix Knitting ~ ~ ~ Quick Guide: Voting [Eng/Ger]

Finally completed: the Mosaic Hat

I finished the cotton hat with the mosaic patterns. Quite proud of it - especially of the "seam" where you change from one row to the next. It's in the middle of the picture and I love that you can barely see it in most patterns.

Fertig ist die Baumwoll-Mütze in Mosaikmustern (Hebemaschen). Ich bin schon begeistert vom Ergebnis, vor allem finde ich die "Naht" (mittig) sehr gelungen wo ich versucht habe den Übergang von einer Reihe (und Farbe) zur anderen möglichst unauffällig zu machen.

Helix knitting - the 'waste not' socks

I have a lot of left over sock yarn, sometimes only some meters of one yarn. I had been thinking about making small pieces to later make a throw out of it... but working now to maybe have something in two or three years? Not very exciting. So I decided to make (yes, you probably guessed it) some socks. There are a lot of ideas and patterns for "scrappy" socks but I had heard about something interesting. One thing on my bucket list was "multi colored one row jogless knitting in the round" - making a spiral of two (or more) yarns without having a start or end or a color. Several times in the past I watched videos and read about it but it was all very complicated. This weekend I watched them again, was still confused but simply started to knit. And - lo and behold! - if you know how it works it's fairly simple (at least if you use DPNs or two circular needles).

Ich hab viele Sockengarnreste, oft nur wenige Meter. Jetzt hab ich begonnen daraus Socken zu stricken und zwar in einem Spiralmuster. Zwei Farben, ohne Absatz, kontinuierlich in der Runde. Es gibt Videos + schriftliche Anleitungen dazu aus denen ich nie ganz schlau geworden bin und hab dann getüftelt bis ich mir eine ganz simple Methode selber erarbeitet habe für das Stricken in der Runde mit dem Nadelspiel oder zwei Rundstricknadeln.

Again a toe-up sock, so I cast on with Judy's Magic Cast On - but you can start at the cuff, too. I closed to the round and knit with the main color half a row over one needle. Now I pushed the needle back again to the start of the row, took the second color and knit this first half row again with this color. Then I took the next needle and again knit with the first color and the same stitches again with the second color.

Wieder von den Zehen begonnen und mit dieser Farbe die Maschen einer Nadel gestrickt. Dann wird die Nadel zurück geschoben und eben diese Maschen mit der anderen Farbe gestrickt. Nun auf zur nächsten Nadel, diese Maschen mit Farbe A stricken, Nadel zurück schieben, Maschen noch ein mal mit Farbe B stricken.

I have to admit the colors aren't the best to show the spiral but I have no yarn in solid colors ;) In the right picture you can see the two threads on the backside needle. I will now knit the stitches on the front needle first with the white/black yarn and than with the dark-blue yarn and so on. First yarn A, then yarn B, next needle. The same with DPNs: one needle after the other knit two times.

Zugegeben, die Farben lassen das etwas schlecht erkennen - aber ich hab nu mal keine einfarbigen Garne ;) Auf dem rechten Bild sieht man die beiden Fäden warten. Ich stricke nun die Maschen der vorderen Nadel erst mit dem schwarz-weissen Faden, dann direkt im Anschluss mit dem dunkelblauen Garn.

Voting - How and When (and when not)

The worth of a vote is dependend on several things. First the SP (own and delegated), the percentage of it you use and the percentage left of your Voting Power. Here are some thoughts and tips:

• SP: The more, the better. Well, of course. But take a look at your wallet: If you don't plan to cash out soon or you need STEEM for other things on the chain - power up. More SP means more RCs, too, which means you're able to make more comments etc.
• Voting Power: The more, the better. A 100% vote if your VP is at 80% is only an 80% vote. 10 votes of 100% a day - not more. If you stagger these, even better - best not to get below 85%. If that means you have to stop voting for a day or two - well, the people you vote will be happy if your votes have more worth afterwards. I prefer not receiving a vote from you now if that means that votes in the future will have their whole worth.
• No voting on comments. Ever heard of the dust threshold? If a comment doesn't earn at least 0.02 SBD the rewards won't be paid to the author of the comment. So: If your vote is worth less than 0.02 SBD (~ $0,025) don't vote on a comment if your vote doesn't bring the reward over this threshold. Either write a comment instead (remember: Votes go to the wallet, comments go to the heart!) or vote on a post of the commentator. Just click on the name which lead you to their profile page and vote for a post. Not that much more work, only one click more - but your vote won't be lost!
• No voting during the last 24 hours before pay out. The worth of votes made late in the 7 days period decreases to the end. Again: perhaps write a comment and vote something else by the author.

The critic

You know this feeling when you look at your needlework and there is this voice your hear? It talks to you, about his the stitches could be more even, about the increases you forgot and the pattern you mangled. But this critic is rarely seen, he manages to hide himself, is elusive. Here is a rare image of the critic - he tried to camouflage himself but you can clearly see him. And look how shocked he is that he was caught!

What's on my needles

Quite a lot :)

And of the course the double-knitting scarf ;)