Sliding-loop entrelac join, two-sided

[fuzzyjay]

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I've never been totally happy with the way that entrelac joins look. To reduce bulk to a minimum, and to keep the stitches from looking too distorted, I have been using sliding-loop joins to connect pieces of knitting at right angles to each other, as in entrelac. When doing closed-form entrelac (such as a cube) there are times when you have to join three pieces together. Until a few days ago, I couldn't think of how to do that without decreases.. Then voila, it hit me. Here's how the structure looks.

The pieces of knitting on both sides have live stitches (loops held on a needle or holder). In other words, the direction of knitting for them is toward the center.

Pull a loop (one of them is shown in orange) through one of the raw stitches belonging to the piece on the right. This will secure the right piece of knitting to the center piece. Knit with the loop (knit rows going from right to left). Purl back (left to right), but before you do that, use the loop formed by turning the row to go through the knitted piece on the left, and chain these loops to each other, behind the fabric, to secure the left knitted piece to the center knitted piece. Soon, I'll describe the knitting operations to do this.

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Comments

[dendren.livejournal.com]

every time I see entrelac I think you are talking about some sci fi or comic book future language... then I remember that's interlac or something to that effect LOL

oh, and I waived at you as we passed through Portland last week. I wasn't sure what direction I should waive so just did a general waive towards Portland... but I'm sure you must have felt it! ;)

[fuzzyjay.livejournal.com]

I think one of my philodendron leaves dipped a little...

[dendren.livejournal.com]

hahahahahahahaha... oh no, I didn't want to make your leaves dip!
wait a minute... wasn't that when the temp was like 400 degrees out in Portland... clearly that was the culprit for your droopy leaves not little ol me :)

[fuzzyjay.livejournal.com]

No, it was just waving hello, it wasn't roasting to death, not wilting, really!

[dendren.livejournal.com]

oh, good, phew!