Friday, May 31, 2013

Vertical Double Decrease with a Twisted Stitch

That kind of sounds like a cocktail.

Anyway, one of my new patterns, Sugar Bunn, calls for the working of a vertical double decrease with a twisted stitch.
Here is a photo tutorial explaining how this is done.

Figure 1: The stitches are labeled A, B and C. B is the top stitch in the row of twisted stitches. 
Figure 2: Slip A onto cable needle as if to purl and hold in back. 
Figure 3: Slip B from left needle to right needle as if to purl
Figure 4: Place A from the cable needle onto the right hand needle.
Figure 5: Knit C.
Figure 6: Pass A and B over the stitch just knit. 
Figure 7: Done, three stitches decreased into one with the center stitch twisted. 


Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Two Newly Published Patterns



I just self-published two new designs up on Ravelry.

Damn it feels good.




Angora Sugar Bunn Mitts



Tompkins Square Mitts
If you want to read some interesting history about Tompkins Square, read this.

Monday, May 20, 2013

A Snails Pace is still good, as long as it's forward.

Two month since the last post.
Procrastination got the better of me.
I got my lovely friend Alyssa to take photos of the finished objects made from my designs. (We bartered mitts for photos of course.)

Here is another dish that will be served up sometime in the future.

Yum.
The purple is Imperial Yarn Columbia, it's bouncy, and soft, and tweedy.  The multi-colored yarn is Noro Aya, It's cottony, and color-saturated, and discontinued. I am designing a shawlette type wrap with heavy graphical lines.  It will include a chevron pattern and some intarsia work.

I have to mention the bowl which I just got from a friend who brought it as a gift from Uganda.  It's a lovely handwoven basket made from banana and palm fibers. Once the yarn is out of the way you will see that the bowl has a sunflower pattern.