2009 Knitting Project
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neadodsLong story short, as part of pulling my act back together, I want to have a specific 2009 knitting project to work on a little bit all year... starting over Christmas vacation this year. I have the yarn for each of these, so it's just a question of which one gets cast on first.
Entry Number One: Warm Up America. To be done in 5 colors of cotton in the Yarn Harlot stitch. Advantages: Portable. Each block will take ~3.5 hours and at 49 blocks, that makes it easy to make the commitment (and leaves three weeks to sew it together and give it an I-cord border.)
Entry Number Two: Roman Square. Advantages: Each sub-stripe will be almost exactly 1 hour to knit, making it a good TV project. The per-block time is longer (about 6 hours) but there are only 30 blocks.
Entry Number Three: This is the one I've pulled out the previous project for. I can't easily find an example online, but it's a series of interlocking crosses (the plus sign kind). Alternating yarns; one white, one a variegated with lots of white in it, which will make the pattern fade in and out impressionistically... I hope. The exact number of blocks isn't determined yet (to some degree it depends on the stitch used).
Entry Number Four: "Time For Me to Fly" is a typical Flying Geese pattern. Originally slated to be in cream, mauve, and sage green, it may instead be pale blue and white. I have yet to decide if it's blue geese on a white background, vice versa, alternating, or with a border. And then there's this intriguing variation, which I found googling for pictures of the other. (Obviously, there are a lot of variables with this idea.)
Entry Number Five: The same pattern I did for the previous knitalong (oh, hush, it's knitted! I didn't promise a sewupathon.) Only this time the different blocks are also different stitch textures.
And that's not even throwing "When I'm 64" into the mix, because I can't decide if that one's going to be just textures or just colors, and if so, what colors (on account of maybe swapping the yarn with the flying geese project.
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Mind you, the management reserves all right to completely ignore the results of this poll.
Entry Number One: Warm Up America. To be done in 5 colors of cotton in the Yarn Harlot stitch. Advantages: Portable. Each block will take ~3.5 hours and at 49 blocks, that makes it easy to make the commitment (and leaves three weeks to sew it together and give it an I-cord border.)
Entry Number Two: Roman Square. Advantages: Each sub-stripe will be almost exactly 1 hour to knit, making it a good TV project. The per-block time is longer (about 6 hours) but there are only 30 blocks.
Entry Number Three: This is the one I've pulled out the previous project for. I can't easily find an example online, but it's a series of interlocking crosses (the plus sign kind). Alternating yarns; one white, one a variegated with lots of white in it, which will make the pattern fade in and out impressionistically... I hope. The exact number of blocks isn't determined yet (to some degree it depends on the stitch used).
Entry Number Four: "Time For Me to Fly" is a typical Flying Geese pattern. Originally slated to be in cream, mauve, and sage green, it may instead be pale blue and white. I have yet to decide if it's blue geese on a white background, vice versa, alternating, or with a border. And then there's this intriguing variation, which I found googling for pictures of the other. (Obviously, there are a lot of variables with this idea.)
Entry Number Five: The same pattern I did for the previous knitalong (oh, hush, it's knitted! I didn't promise a sewupathon.) Only this time the different blocks are also different stitch textures.
And that's not even throwing "When I'm 64" into the mix, because I can't decide if that one's going to be just textures or just colors, and if so, what colors (on account of maybe swapping the yarn with the flying geese project.
[Poll #1300552]
Mind you, the management reserves all right to completely ignore the results of this poll.
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Date: 2008-11-20 02:40 pm (UTC)Also, it would use up some of the worsted weight yarn I have no current use for, while allowing me to keep in practice for my current me-project, which is a mitered square afghan. I'm working it up so I'm joining the squares in each row as I knit them.
So how do you manage an i-cord border? Are there instructions online someplace, or is there a book I need to pick up for that?
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Date: 2008-11-21 01:10 am (UTC)I don't remember where I found the instructions, but it has to have been online. Knitting Help usually has videos, though, and so does YouTube; the two together have taught me more about knitting than I ever learned in a class!
Double pointed needles required (preferably the very short ones if you can get them; my LYS has 5" DPs).
Cast on 3 (or 5) stitches.
Knit 2 (or 4).
Knit the last stitch and a stitch from the edge of the blanket together.
Now here's the i-cord part: all the stitches are on the right needle. Slide them to the other end of the DP and pick it up in your left hand and repeat. Do not knit back, do not move to the other needle. Knit, always ending by knitting the last cord stitch and the edge stitch together, then slide the stitches to the other side of the needle and lather, rinse, repeat.
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