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I missed my post yesterday, I may just say not on a sunday.
As part of my finishing, I am finishing a blanket. Well somewhere between a blanket and a wrap as its rectangular not square.
Needles – 5.5m
Yarn – BF bought me some Colinette creative packs for a birthday. Now I love Colinette yarns, and creative packs are great. They send your 450g or a kilo of either a colour palatte or yarn type. The colours are amazing, no really, at some point I will buy enough to make an actual garment. A friend of mine already has one, it’s knit from four different types of yarn, striped and using increases and decreases to form a wave in the stripes.
When I came to decide what to do with mine I took it as a model. The chevron stripe pattern, gives a very angular pattern, so I did Row 2 every 4th row, giving a more gentle curve.
Straight stripes stretch and in a blanket, stretch is to be avoided. They are weighty enterprises, both in time and mass. They seem to stretch even when folded up in a corner, there must be a density/stretch formula. By including increases and decreases it is structurally more sound (the stretch doesn’t travel much round the decreases) and more visually interesting. The different yarns, from ribbon to thick barely spun also give texture. I striped the thick and thin, to even out the weight, as the needle was an inbetween size for most of the yarns.
Of course I ran out of thick yarn before reaching a useful size. At which point the project joined the unfinished projects shelf. Then I got the off cuts from the BF’s Beltane costume (point 5 is the go to yarn for fake dreads). Then realised I still had far to much ribbon weight and bought an art yarn creative pack. Now its just taking an age to knit.
But I will get there!
(have my first attempt at photo collage to prove it, its terrible photos I know)
Basic Chevron Stripe
Row 1 (wrong side) purl
Row 2 K1, inc 1, k4, sl1, k1, psso, k2tog, k4, to last 2 stitches , inc1, k1
Row 3 purl
Row 4 As 2 row
As part of my finishing, I am finishing a blanket. Well somewhere between a blanket and a wrap as its rectangular not square.
Needles – 5.5m
Yarn – BF bought me some Colinette creative packs for a birthday. Now I love Colinette yarns, and creative packs are great. They send your 450g or a kilo of either a colour palatte or yarn type. The colours are amazing, no really, at some point I will buy enough to make an actual garment. A friend of mine already has one, it’s knit from four different types of yarn, striped and using increases and decreases to form a wave in the stripes.
When I came to decide what to do with mine I took it as a model. The chevron stripe pattern, gives a very angular pattern, so I did Row 2 every 4th row, giving a more gentle curve.
Straight stripes stretch and in a blanket, stretch is to be avoided. They are weighty enterprises, both in time and mass. They seem to stretch even when folded up in a corner, there must be a density/stretch formula. By including increases and decreases it is structurally more sound (the stretch doesn’t travel much round the decreases) and more visually interesting. The different yarns, from ribbon to thick barely spun also give texture. I striped the thick and thin, to even out the weight, as the needle was an inbetween size for most of the yarns.
Of course I ran out of thick yarn before reaching a useful size. At which point the project joined the unfinished projects shelf. Then I got the off cuts from the BF’s Beltane costume (point 5 is the go to yarn for fake dreads). Then realised I still had far to much ribbon weight and bought an art yarn creative pack. Now its just taking an age to knit.
But I will get there!
(have my first attempt at photo collage to prove it, its terrible photos I know)
Basic Chevron Stripe
Row 1 (wrong side) purl
Row 2 K1, inc 1, k4, sl1, k1, psso, k2tog, k4, to last 2 stitches , inc1, k1
Row 3 purl
Row 4 As 2 row
