Monday, 20. March 2006
It's Pi!
knitting_keeps_me_sane, 21:22h
That must be the shortest EZ quote to ever have been quoted, and honestly, it is really longer, but I didnt dare to write half a chapter up there.
But indeed, it is Pi that has made it possible for me to knit this fabulous object (and a half-sister in two shades of blue that went to live with a Secret Pal that dropped off the face of earth.. sob). Elizabeth Zimmermann was the one who thought of using Pi in knitting too to create a circle, and here I am using it for a shawl. The formula goes: Cast on 9 stitches, knit a round, double the stitches, knit three rounds, double the stitches, knit 6 rounds, double the stitches, and on you go, doubling the row count and stitch count. This means that in every new section you will knit as many stitches as you have knit in all previous sections together.
I am at the final section that has 96 rows - should I chose to knit them all - and knitting at row 30. There will be a final knitted-on border, but I have yet to decide on
1) a pattern, and
2) yarn. Will I use the self-striping, or chose a solid from Kauni?
The patterns in the shawl are from the inside out: A generic six-petalled flower I kinda use in all my make-up lace patterns; a "Shetland Fern" that I stole from the "Shetland Tea Shawl" in "A Gathering of Lace", the large flower is from "Knitter's Almanac" and is EZ's own original design, and the outermost pattern is simply a zig-zag pattern I am devising myself.
The blue shawl I knit two years ago followed EZ's pattern to a T until I reached the last section where I also used a zig-zagging pattern, and finished with a 15-st-garter-st-border. I had calculated it very closely and ended with 5 yards of yarn left :-)
The yarn is something called "Kauni", which comes from Estland. It is part of the ever-growing group of yarns with colourchanges like Noro, but without the price tag.
You can get Kauni at Wollsucht.de, where they also carry Karen Noe Ombré, Rellana, Opal yarns and Villa/Rewool.
Aint I (un)lucky that she lives next town and will pull out her yarn for visitors too? Man, finally it has its yarny advantages to live in Germany!
It is a bit more muted in RL, and I dont know what mare rid me when I decided to use rainbow yarn! It does feel scratchy when in the skein, but when it is knit up and eventually washed it is soft - not cotton/merino-soft, but wool-soft.
Have a nice day.
But indeed, it is Pi that has made it possible for me to knit this fabulous object (and a half-sister in two shades of blue that went to live with a Secret Pal that dropped off the face of earth.. sob). Elizabeth Zimmermann was the one who thought of using Pi in knitting too to create a circle, and here I am using it for a shawl. The formula goes: Cast on 9 stitches, knit a round, double the stitches, knit three rounds, double the stitches, knit 6 rounds, double the stitches, and on you go, doubling the row count and stitch count. This means that in every new section you will knit as many stitches as you have knit in all previous sections together.
I am at the final section that has 96 rows - should I chose to knit them all - and knitting at row 30. There will be a final knitted-on border, but I have yet to decide on
1) a pattern, and
2) yarn. Will I use the self-striping, or chose a solid from Kauni?
The patterns in the shawl are from the inside out: A generic six-petalled flower I kinda use in all my make-up lace patterns; a "Shetland Fern" that I stole from the "Shetland Tea Shawl" in "A Gathering of Lace", the large flower is from "Knitter's Almanac" and is EZ's own original design, and the outermost pattern is simply a zig-zag pattern I am devising myself.
The blue shawl I knit two years ago followed EZ's pattern to a T until I reached the last section where I also used a zig-zagging pattern, and finished with a 15-st-garter-st-border. I had calculated it very closely and ended with 5 yards of yarn left :-)
The yarn is something called "Kauni", which comes from Estland. It is part of the ever-growing group of yarns with colourchanges like Noro, but without the price tag.
You can get Kauni at Wollsucht.de, where they also carry Karen Noe Ombré, Rellana, Opal yarns and Villa/Rewool.
Aint I (un)lucky that she lives next town and will pull out her yarn for visitors too? Man, finally it has its yarny advantages to live in Germany!
It is a bit more muted in RL, and I dont know what mare rid me when I decided to use rainbow yarn! It does feel scratchy when in the skein, but when it is knit up and eventually washed it is soft - not cotton/merino-soft, but wool-soft.
Have a nice day.
