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Since last I wrote about my Rockefeller project I've been working hard to get it back to the point where I could start on clue 3. Knitting on larger needles sure went fast, and the stitches were far more loosely on the needle. One could even say they are too loose, but "that'll block right out".Because the stitches are a little more loose, I am confident I can block it even bigger than it is now. Last time I was at this point it was only 23 cm high. Now I've got 26 cm at least, and this is before blocking it!
I also added more dark blue to the main body of clue 2. I saw it on someone else's 3-colour Rockefeller and it does look more complete, not like the dark blue was just thrown in as a last thought.
Sorry for the crappy photos with this post. Bad resolution, bad phonecam, bad lighting, bad Jane bad!
Clue 3 has a little designer thingy we at the Karma Group call "Egyptian Squares". Dunno if that's what they are, but I thought they would be knitted in a very different way than they actually are!
Of course, once I read clue 3, I could see what they were doing, but I couldn't "see" how the pattern would emerge and what bits would line up with what. So I did a little testround on 2,5 mm sock needles that were lying around, and suddenly I saw!
Of course, I wouldn't be me if I didn't make it just a little bit harder on myself. Since I am combining the two colours with a darker blue and I'd been saving yarn ends from my frogging adventure, I wanted to make a few of the 'squares' darker blue, and the rest lighter blue.
What threw me was that the squares aren't really squares, and the blue would bleed from one square into the other. Wouldn't that be weird? So I decided to slip the white stitches to create a real box to capture the blue in, so the light blue wouldn't bleed into the dark blue. And because I had a swatch, I could figure out which stitches to slip and when!
Which is how this morning I took a good fifteen minutes for the set-up row of clue 3, slipping some of the white stitches and adding extra stitches in the blue part (as per the pattern's instructions). Unlike the piano fingers, I just added dark blue yarn whenever I felt like it, no designing or contemplation necessary. If Stephen West had said "You will make so many Egyptian Squares" I'd probably have put more thought into the placement of the darker blue squares*), but now they're all quirky and impulsive.
I do have a lot of tiny skeins connected to my knitting now...
Onwards and downwards!
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*) And I'd finally know how we got the term "Egyptian Squares".
I also added more dark blue to the main body of clue 2. I saw it on someone else's 3-colour Rockefeller and it does look more complete, not like the dark blue was just thrown in as a last thought.
Sorry for the crappy photos with this post. Bad resolution, bad phonecam, bad lighting, bad Jane bad!
Clue 3 has a little designer thingy we at the Karma Group call "Egyptian Squares". Dunno if that's what they are, but I thought they would be knitted in a very different way than they actually are!
Of course, once I read clue 3, I could see what they were doing, but I couldn't "see" how the pattern would emerge and what bits would line up with what. So I did a little testround on 2,5 mm sock needles that were lying around, and suddenly I saw!
Of course, I wouldn't be me if I didn't make it just a little bit harder on myself. Since I am combining the two colours with a darker blue and I'd been saving yarn ends from my frogging adventure, I wanted to make a few of the 'squares' darker blue, and the rest lighter blue.
What threw me was that the squares aren't really squares, and the blue would bleed from one square into the other. Wouldn't that be weird? So I decided to slip the white stitches to create a real box to capture the blue in, so the light blue wouldn't bleed into the dark blue. And because I had a swatch, I could figure out which stitches to slip and when!
Which is how this morning I took a good fifteen minutes for the set-up row of clue 3, slipping some of the white stitches and adding extra stitches in the blue part (as per the pattern's instructions). Unlike the piano fingers, I just added dark blue yarn whenever I felt like it, no designing or contemplation necessary. If Stephen West had said "You will make so many Egyptian Squares" I'd probably have put more thought into the placement of the darker blue squares*), but now they're all quirky and impulsive.
I do have a lot of tiny skeins connected to my knitting now...
Onwards and downwards!
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*) And I'd finally know how we got the term "Egyptian Squares".
