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So, finally I am posting a knitting pattern I designed and knitted up in 1992. Gee, it only took me fifteen years. It's a lace mesh that has hearts in it if you look kinda close. Happy belated Valentine's Day! I leave it to you to decide what kind of project it would be good for. I have never used it in anything except the swatch. Basically, I'm more interested in fabrics than garments, if you know what I mean.
The picture of the knitting is a scan I did long ago, so I'm not sure about what the yarn was or anything. I'm pretty sure that it was worsted-weight, and it's gotta be wool, because it was stretched and blocked.
I don't have the pattern written out in words, since I prefer graphs to written directions both for knitting and for designing knitting stitch patterns. And I'm sorry that the link is to a big ol' JPEG file (something like 300 K when you click through to the original file). Somewhere in one of my old computers I have a PDF of this pattern, but I can't find it. So I had to scan a printed copy that I have kept over the years.
Here's some of the more unusual stitches written out. Some of my abbreviations in the written pattern are a little cryptic*:
*These instructions presuppose that you are using the more common (Western) stitch mount when you knit.
So, finally I am posting a knitting pattern I designed and knitted up in 1992. Gee, it only took me fifteen years. It's a lace mesh that has hearts in it if you look kinda close. Happy belated Valentine's Day! I leave it to you to decide what kind of project it would be good for. I have never used it in anything except the swatch. Basically, I'm more interested in fabrics than garments, if you know what I mean.
The picture of the knitting is a scan I did long ago, so I'm not sure about what the yarn was or anything. I'm pretty sure that it was worsted-weight, and it's gotta be wool, because it was stretched and blocked.
I don't have the pattern written out in words, since I prefer graphs to written directions both for knitting and for designing knitting stitch patterns. And I'm sorry that the link is to a big ol' JPEG file (something like 300 K when you click through to the original file). Somewhere in one of my old computers I have a PDF of this pattern, but I can't find it. So I had to scan a printed copy that I have kept over the years.
Here's some of the more unusual stitches written out. Some of my abbreviations in the written pattern are a little cryptic*:
- 5-to-1 decrease: Slip 2 stitches knit wise (separately), slip the next two stitches as if to knit 2 together. Insert the left needle into the front of the 4 slipped stitches and knit together. Pass the worked stitch to the left needle and pass the next stitch over, then return the worked stitch to the right needle.
- Left twist: Slip 2 stitches knit wise (separately), transfer the stitches back to the left needle, then knit the second stitch from the end of the left needle in the back loop, then, before removing the stitches from the left needle, knit 2 together through the back loop. (You can work this however you want, but this way mirrors the right twist that I like to do.)
- 3-to-3 X twist: Slip 1 knit wise, Slip 2 as if to knit 2 together. Insert the left needle into the front of the 3 slipped stitches; knit 3 together, then yarn over, knit 3 together into the 3 slipped stitches before removing the left needle.
- 3-to-3 Y twist: Slip 2 stitches as if to knit 2 together, slip 1 knitwise; insert the left needle into the front of the 3 slipped stitches; knit 3 together, yarnover, knit 3 together into the 3 slipped stitches before removing the left needle.
*These instructions presuppose that you are using the more common (Western) stitch mount when you knit.
