Knit Things

Shown here is a hat, looking all funky and gnarly. I took this shot because a) I hadn’t taken any shots of this hat, and b) I had the film to burn because I finally finished up the shawl I’ve been working on for the past six months. The effect here was obtained by increasing crazily – by doing a reverse yarn-over after every fifth stitch for maybe 20 rows. This gave me simply too many stitches to sit flat, so it gives me the baubles. I particularly like it, even though it doesn’t get worn out anywhere.

Shown here is the beginnings of a hat (yarn I purchased in a fit of celebration for having finished the shawl). I’m doing what the Readers’ Digest Complete Guide to Needlework calls a “herringbone” stitch, I think. It amounts to knitting through the back loops of two stitches & only pulling off one stitch. So, you end up going through each stitch twice, and almost end up with a double-knit feel. It’s quite thick & will make a nice baby hat for friends who live in the cold.

And here, on the “wrong” side you get a real picture for how many stitches, as you can see the spiraling as I work my way out. Even though this is the wrong side, I suspect that the hat will be worn with this side out, as it shows such a nice spiral pattern. Keep the number of stitches you see here in mind, though, and look at the following picture.

Yes, this is the same hat, but shown upon the sea of the blocked-out shawl. The finished shawl ended up being 66 inches long x 48 inches wide. (168cm x 122cm) Knitted on US#6 (4mm) needles. The pattern is described in other places on this blog if you’re interested.

And here’s a good closeup of the stitching.

All of these link out to higher-resolution pics, if you’re interested.

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