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Finished Fiber Object
Okay, I finally finished a knitted object. A hat. It's made with Wool-Ease, a mostly acrylic yarn with a little wool thrown in. It's in the washing machine now.
The next thing I knit will be wool. Acrylic is nice for gifts cause of the easy-wash aspect, but when you have sweaty hands like me, the sweat increases the coefficient of friction of your acrylic yarn pretty quickly, making knitting a much harder operation than it has to be. Wool will absorb some of the sweat (ew, I know) making the knitting go smoother. I knew there was a reason I liked knitting with wool better. Plus, wool is more elastic than acrylic, and the stretching of loops that goes on in knitting is a little easier.
The hat is my own design. I start with the Schlegel diagram of a polyhedron. Then I turn that into a 3-D entrelac. Then I add cable stitches. Done right, you get a sort of garter-stitch entrelac overlaid with cable stitches that look like continuous Celtic knotwork. I like complicated knitting.
In this case, I miscalculated the cable crossings, so rather than the seamless, continuous cable that I was going for, I got something a little kludgey. Also, the hat's sort of bumpy, but that comes with the whole Celtic-knotwork garter-stitch entrelac polyhedron thing.
I am more of a knitting engineer than a knitting artist/craftsperson. My creations are interesting rather than beautiful. I really need to team up with a more design-y kind of person.
The next thing I knit will be wool. Acrylic is nice for gifts cause of the easy-wash aspect, but when you have sweaty hands like me, the sweat increases the coefficient of friction of your acrylic yarn pretty quickly, making knitting a much harder operation than it has to be. Wool will absorb some of the sweat (ew, I know) making the knitting go smoother. I knew there was a reason I liked knitting with wool better. Plus, wool is more elastic than acrylic, and the stretching of loops that goes on in knitting is a little easier.
The hat is my own design. I start with the Schlegel diagram of a polyhedron. Then I turn that into a 3-D entrelac. Then I add cable stitches. Done right, you get a sort of garter-stitch entrelac overlaid with cable stitches that look like continuous Celtic knotwork. I like complicated knitting.
In this case, I miscalculated the cable crossings, so rather than the seamless, continuous cable that I was going for, I got something a little kludgey. Also, the hat's sort of bumpy, but that comes with the whole Celtic-knotwork garter-stitch entrelac polyhedron thing.
I am more of a knitting engineer than a knitting artist/craftsperson. My creations are interesting rather than beautiful. I really need to team up with a more design-y kind of person.
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In any case, I'm impressed! Thanks for the introduction to entrelac. And the Schlegel diagrams were interesting too, even to a non-topologist like me. ;-)
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So where are the pics of the hat?
I was in Starbucks today, and I was thinking about you. This post made me smile.
Happy Christmas!!