Conquering mesh stitch

I'm one of those keep your head down and keep moving knitters, so its rare that I admit defeat. Mesh stitch had me baffled, I made a hemp shopping bag, every round seemed to have a different number of stiches so I'd make up some kind of compensating decrease or yarn over and keep going. When it was done, it had a line up one side that looked like a bad surgical scar. I wound it back ito balls and shoved it in the bottom of my bag. Next I tried a beaded scarf in a mesh stitch. I strung the beads onto a slippery rayon yarn first which was no small feat, then began to knit. There were only thirty stitches but any slip up resulted in the all the knitting unraveling.

Bowed, bloodied but still not ready to admit defeat, I asked for help from Linda Michaluk and Patricia Landry of Swallowhill Creations. After about five minutes working with big yarn and pony beads, I got it. I've been working on a short rowed scarf with mesh stitch and I can really do it now.

Don't unravel get help! It really is true.