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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>I’d welcome some opinions.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>I’m knitting a throw, which will be rectangular. I’m knitting the top bit in a wavy pattern, which is Feather and Fan on a stockinette base. Someone here posted it as part of a pattern, and it’s nice. I’ll probably put it on the bottom edge, too.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>I’ve made the sides of the throw in seed stitch for 6 stitches. I’m debating making the top edge in garter stitch for maybe 3 inches, or sticking with seed stitch for 6 rows. I’m thinking a bit of garter might make the top stay better where a person puts it, say, if she wants to sit with it pulled up around her shoulders or something like that. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>I have a shawl like that, and the garter does make it stay put, but it has maybe 12 inches of garter, and I don’t want more than say 3.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>What do you knitters think?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Tracy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>