Ad Hoc Ribbing
Here’s a way to do ad hoc ribbing:
The pattern I used for my Clay Clox has 2 rib stitches, four knit, then 2 rib. The pattern is repeated on both sides of the sock.
I am using the 72 needle cylinder on the Verdun 47.
The problem (well, the first problem!): the ribber dial that goes with the 72 needle cylinder has 36 slots. So, fine to do many different patterns, but not the 2:4:2 pattern I wanted. With two rib stitches in a row the ribber needles were too close to the neighbouring cylinder needles to clear…..ie, if I set the timing for one ribber needle to not bump into its neighbouring cylinder needle, then the 2nd rib needle would bump into its neighbour.
My solution (well, one solution!): I used my 50 slot ribber dial that goes with my 100 needle cylinder on the Legare 400. The dial interchanged easily onto my Verdun, and the needles are that much closer together that they knit perfectly and cleared the neighbouring cylinder needles well enough to knit along at a reasonable clip.
The ribber dial does complicate fiddling the 4 cable stitches around, but hey, who said it was easy!
Okay now i see what you did I should have figured you used a different cylinder. You sure put some thought into this pattern… This is great. Thank you
Smart! Do you also manipulate the stitches for the cable while the ribber dial is on top? Thanks.
You can do it either way. With ribber on it is more finicky to do the cable, which takes a little more time. To take the ribber off makes a little easier for the cable, more you have to transfer the rib stitches off, then back on – also takes a little more time. Six of one, half a dozen of the other ;o)