The fiber is Falkland from Laughing Rat Studios (thanks, Jenn!)
and the pattern is from Suzanne Pufpaff of Pufpaff Fiber Mill.
She has some really interesting patterns and I wanted to try her simplest one as I'd never in my life done entrelac. It was a weird experience, but I'm so glad I persevered! I changed her pattern quite a bit (mostly making it narrower), but it still looks much the same as her original one. I used size 6 needles (4mm) - and they were the totally cool Kollage square circular needles. WONDERFUL needles!
The biggest changes I made to the pattern was that I only knitted the leaves up to 30 stitches wide, and I changed the entrelac "rectangles" to squares by using garter instead of stockinette. Then, for the number of stitches in the squares, I kept them at just 8 stitches wide, rather than increasing them up to 10 or 11, as the pattern called for. But other 'n' that - it's just the same!
6 comments:
WOW! I am an expert knitter but that is one pattern that has eluded me! Your choice of yarn is fantastic-three cheers to you!
Absolutely Beautiful!
Hey, thank you, Lanora! Coming from you, that's one heckuva compliment :-) I'm getting braver and trying new things lately. Yay for me!
Hi, Delighted! I need to say the same thing to you that I did to Lanora: coming from you, that's a really flattering compliment! I was really twittered when I started the pattern, but I persevered. Reading it was harder than doing it, lemme tell ya! :-) Anyway - it's just a simple matter of what amounts to short-rowing and picking up stitches. I mean...that is IT! Just doing it brings on one of those head-slap moments: "Uh...I could have had a V-8!" Just get on-line and do a search for free entrelac patterns (millions of 'em) and start doing it! It really IS easy (promise!)
that's two pretty scarfs ;)
Thank you, Eruwen! I really enjoyed knitting up both.
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