This is a great way to practice the Lighter Circular Beginning (second half of that video) Or if you don't like youtube here it is in still pictures: last entry here
This is also a great way to get your mind wrapped around a knit on border. It is easier to knit a knit on border than it is to figure out how to knit a knit on border. In other words once you have the start of it figured out the rest is a snap to knit.
For the doubling rounds I used the knit in the front and back of each stitch so I wouldn’t have the YO holes. The pattern on the main part of the cloth was not from a stitch dictionary. I drew it in Excel. The knit on border is from a stitch dictionary.
Unblocked (smoothed flat) it is about 10” in diameter.
Blocked it measures 10.5 inches.
The yarn is Pisgah Yarn & Dyeing Co., Inc America's Best Article 960, Perle Cotton (Size 5, mercerized). Color: Lime #56.
I used size 2 double pointed bamboo needles (8" long) for the whole thing.
The pattern is still in handwritten notes but I do have plans on writing it up with links and details for the tricky parts.
Ravelry link to project.
6 comments:
The experiment looks like a grand success! I've knit on borders before, but only to hem lines and such, never in the round.
All I can say is... Amazing!
WOW, that is one beauuuuutiful cloth! You are so talented. Want teach a class based on this? TM
Hmmm...a class....I just may be interested in doing that.
I was going to try and have the pattern written up by the 24th of July but I've playing games on Webkins!
This is beautiful and I would take the class if you taught one!
wow that is really gorgeous. i'm impressed!
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