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Are you on Ravelry? If not you should be! The waiting list is moving so much faster than it did when I first signed up! It is a great social network for knitters, crocheters and fiber artists! Since I already showed you my finished object for Friday yesterday, I have been spending a chunk of . . . → Read More: Ravelring and Twittering…must be a social networking kind of day! Classic Knits at Home: 15 Timeless Designs to Knit and Keep Forever by Erika Knight is a great little book full of projects to make your home sweet home… sweeter! As soon as this book hit my desk I was hooked. The first project that struck my eye, was the Houndstooth Cushion pattern. I have been looking for a good oversized houndstooth charted pattern and this fits the bill. My friend came over and was drawn to the patchwork throw, which is the cover design. This pattern is a great sampler pattern! It covers many different stitch patterns, in each of the hexagonal patches, and pairs up quilting and knitting, a crossover that is quite common among crafters.
The patterns are well written and suitable for knitters of all levels of experience. The photos make me dream of curling up with a nice cup of tea while cuddling under one of the many throws in the book. There was one project that made me pick up my needles and cast on immediately.. don’t laugh; it was the door stop!! I need one! I have needed one for ages, and what better doorstop to have in a knitter’s house than a cute knitted one!!?! This one fit the bill, quick easy simple and it works!!
For my loom knitting friends.. this book is totally doable! Of the 15 patterns in this book, 14 are absolutely translatable to the looms! Since this is a book full of household knits, gauge is not as essential, and for many of the patterns you can run a swatch and fiddle a bit with the numbers to end up with the dimensions you want! If you are looking for a good book with ideas for the home I encourage you to check this one out! Overall this book is full of beautiful, timeless, classic knits for the home, that are sure to become house favourites! Next week: the book that made me go SQUEEEEE! Stephanie has put together a clever short and sweet little video on how to do some fancy loom work! She has it up at her site Loomy Daze. You can see it here: Click here. Go ahead and watch it.. I’ll wait, I want to expand on her video just a bit as to when you would want to use those methods from a design point of view, a little added value if you will.. First off what are these abbreviations? k2tog=knit two together YO= yarn over SSK= slip slip knit When you would want to use a k2tog, YO. This method is used mainly in lace when you want to make a ‘hole’ in your knitting on purpose. The k2tog, decreases normally but when you add the YO after it, you come out with the same number of stitches that you started with. So the width of your piece is kept even. So you could do eyelets like this:
The other point of a k2tog, is that it makes a right leaning decrease. As you see in Stephanie’s video the stitch you are moving to do this decrease will move from the left to the right, so it will lean to the right. This is not as important when doing lace, but comes into play when you are shaping garments. Say you are making a sleeve cap, you will want the decreasing stitched on the sides of the sleeve cap to lean in toward the middle. this generally gives a neater cleaner look to the garment. so you will use a k2tog on the left edge of the sleeve when decreasing so it will lean in to the right which is toward the center! The SSK, is the k2tog mirror image. As you see in the video you move the stitch on the right one peg to the left to accomplish this decrease. If you were working on that sleeve cap again, you would put this style of decrease on the right edge of the sleeve, so that the stitches on that edge are leaning to the left, again toward the center of your piece!
These methods are universal, you can apply this to the knitting board, and the needles! I hope this gives you a little food for thought as you work on your next looming project! Again! Stephanie put together an excellent video, it is a great resource! There are some days I feel like I am in a DAZE.. ok let’s face it that is every day! I sure wish I had the time to do these types of video tutorials.. someday! But for now I will be content to refer you to the talent that is out there! Taking the cue from the amigurumi method I played and expreimented and here he is.. not really finished as he is a test item.. I was just playing with shaping and this is what happened!
There are no seams on me.. . . . → Read More: Loomigurumi! |
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