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Multi-Stitch Brioche Fixing

Hi everyone! I’m new to brioche and messed up somewhere along the way, and think I ended up making it worse while trying to fix it. I think I somehow crossed a few stitches over each other (and am including pics of both sides of the WIP currently in case anyone else has a better diagnosis) but I’m not sure how best to go about untangling this mess. Is it possible to ladder down each individual column to fix this one by one, or should I just tink back the past few rows?

u/throwawayacct3001 — 11 days ago

▲ 3 r/Crosstrek

What is “normal” for a Crosstrek’s Performance?

Hi everyone! I switched a few months ago to a CPO 2023 Crosstrek after years of driving a 2014 Forester (my very first car) and it was like night and day, but I’m still getting adjusted to all the quirks of driving a different vehicle and have two different aspects where I can’t tell if it’s normal or a concern.

(1) I’ve noticed that my Crosstrek tends to rev up to ≥3,000 RPM when accelerating (e.g. expressway on-ramps) before dropping back down. My tach almost never went that high on my Forester, so I can’t tell if this is just a difference in their respective performances or if one of these vehicles was/is messed up in some way.

(2) When coasting at slow speeds on flat surfaces, it feels like the car is sometimes lurching forward for a moment before it smooths back out. I’ve never experienced this before in any cars whether owned/rented/etc., and only thing I’ve noticed that affects it is that running the AC seems to make it slightly more noticeable and more frequent.

Thanks in advance for any info you guys have, because otherwise I’m beyond in love with my Crosstrek and hoping to keep it for many years to come!

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u/throwawayacct3001 — 1 month ago

▲ 6 r/AdvancedKnitting

Hi everyone, I’m back again because I decided to force myself to finish my current sweater project before casting on a new one and…. It’s not going so hot.

I’m working on thr Porter cardigan by Meghan Babin, and figuring out what to do with the selvedge edge on it is driving me crazy. It’s knit in flat panels, and the edge I’m currently looking at is constructed as follows:

— RS rows: k1, k1, p1, [rest of row]

— WS rows: [rest of row], k1, sl1wyif, k1

So as shown in the first pic, it seems like it forms a garter selvedge edge on the furthest stitch, a slipped stitch on the second stitch in, and then normal stockinette on the third stitch in.

With regards to seaming the panels together, I couldn’t figure out a way to accomplish this that didn’t look ugly so I resorted to my crochet background and slip stitched everything together on the WS to align the RS slip stitches, as seen in the second pic.

Now I’m at the point where I should be working the vertical ribbing button band from held stitches and picking up stitches along the above selvedge edge, but this is helpfully all the instructions provided:

— Note: When picking up sts from the body selvedge, pick up every other row along the selvedge.

— Sl 12 held sts to Size B DPN needle and with WS facing reattach yarn and pick up 1 st from body selvedge — 13 sts on needle.

— Row 1 (WS): sl1wyif, [k2, p2] twice, k2, p1, sl1wyif.

— Row 2 (RS): k1, sl1wyib, [p2, k2] twice, p1, p2tog, pick up one st from body selvedge.

From all the stitches above in pic 1, where am I actually *supposed* to be picking up here? And is there any way of keeping it looking even vaguely similar to the seaming for the rest of the cardigan, or should I just give up and work the button band separately and then seam afterwards?

u/throwawayacct3001 — 4 months ago