Finally.....Sampler M is finished.
Since I last posted a progress report I have had monumental struggles with a couple of the patterns.
One should have been easy to do because the pattern was such a clear dotted outline, but knitting it proved to me just how many mistakes I could make in 3 inches of fabric.
I lost count of the unravellings, mine as well as the sampler's!
I stopped for a while because so many people in the group had enormous trouble with the next pattern and I was by now almost frightened to attempt it. Once started however I zoomed along without any dramas.
This gave me a false sense of security for the next pattern - allegedly so simple with only one row of pattern in a 4 row repeat. Many starts later and a tutorial session at our last knitting meeting and I still had to go home and rip it back to the start. With some more group communication I finally "got" the stitch and romped along to the last few patterns.
I decided to add an ending to my sampler so it could be worn as a scarf. I started a new piece of knitting with the same pattern as at the other end and did an initial pattern of a "G", so I now have a G and an N at the ends of my scarf.
I grafted the new piece on with Kitchener stitch. It looks quite good I think but I have to block it now to allow all the various widths of patterns to fall into line along the edge.
Here are the scans I took before blocking.
