More Knitting Stuff
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lwood[knitting geekery]
This week, I had some cotton chenille yarn that I absolutely loathe, but I was tired of lace scarves, so I decided to knit some potholders from it until I remembered how much I didn't like the cotton (hiss, spit) chenille (like knitting with pipe cleaners).
I knocked out one in dark blue, 2x2 basketweave pattern, while watching House with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
countgeiger. I did it on my size 9 bones, which helped the nature of the cotton (yeck) to leave holes between stitches.
"Could you make it thicker?"countgeiger asked. "I might get burnt on the holes."
"Sure, which reminds me of a technique..." I remembered that a recent Knitty pattern featured two-faced knitting, where one knits two yarns, not exactly together but more in parallel, giving a double-faced fabric.
If that doesn't make sense, and yet you still care, I took some pictures before my frustration with this particular yarn caused me to rip it out and turn out another potholder, this one in a 2x2 seed stitch, instead.
Pictures are here. I took them with my work-supplied Treo, so they're blurry, but you'll get the idea:
This is with the grey side up.
And this, with the blue. The grey spot in the middle of the blue is a mistake, but as it illustrates how you can use this technique to make patterns or designs on both sides, I left it.
It's actually easier than it looks, at least in the body of the thing--I made some mistakes on the edges whose origins I can't easily deduce, and because I really dislike the yarn, I couldn't be arsed to figure out why it did that. Should I undertake a double-fased project in some more forgiving material, then of course I would lick that.
Next, the chart for the next of the lacy scarf series.
This is based, again, on one of Barbara Walker's patterns, because again We Really Wish She Woulda Stuck with That.
Same pattern key as in the last charts I posted, although I'm not sure if anyone's reading these with intent to actually knit what's in the chart. This is a variant on "Feather and Fan", and I want to see how it looks.
Next, I'm going to actually, oh, go home and putter about with the new server, or maybe (gasp!) write something.
-- Lorrie
This week, I had some cotton chenille yarn that I absolutely loathe, but I was tired of lace scarves, so I decided to knit some potholders from it until I remembered how much I didn't like the cotton (hiss, spit) chenille (like knitting with pipe cleaners).
I knocked out one in dark blue, 2x2 basketweave pattern, while watching House with
countgeiger. I did it on my size 9 bones, which helped the nature of the cotton (yeck) to leave holes between stitches."Could you make it thicker?"
countgeiger asked. "I might get burnt on the holes.""Sure, which reminds me of a technique..." I remembered that a recent Knitty pattern featured two-faced knitting, where one knits two yarns, not exactly together but more in parallel, giving a double-faced fabric.
If that doesn't make sense, and yet you still care, I took some pictures before my frustration with this particular yarn caused me to rip it out and turn out another potholder, this one in a 2x2 seed stitch, instead.
Pictures are here. I took them with my work-supplied Treo, so they're blurry, but you'll get the idea:
This is with the grey side up.
And this, with the blue. The grey spot in the middle of the blue is a mistake, but as it illustrates how you can use this technique to make patterns or designs on both sides, I left it.
It's actually easier than it looks, at least in the body of the thing--I made some mistakes on the edges whose origins I can't easily deduce, and because I really dislike the yarn, I couldn't be arsed to figure out why it did that. Should I undertake a double-fased project in some more forgiving material, then of course I would lick that.
Next, the chart for the next of the lacy scarf series.
This is based, again, on one of Barbara Walker's patterns, because again We Really Wish She Woulda Stuck with That.
Same pattern key as in the last charts I posted, although I'm not sure if anyone's reading these with intent to actually knit what's in the chart. This is a variant on "Feather and Fan", and I want to see how it looks.
Next, I'm going to actually, oh, go home and putter about with the new server, or maybe (gasp!) write something.
-- Lorrie
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Date: 2006-07-28 07:07 pm (UTC)http://laknitterieparisienne.com/Knit_Lite.html
http://www.dreamweaveryarns.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=23_207
And immediately thought of you...
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Date: 2006-07-28 07:53 pm (UTC)-- Lorrie