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I went to the free class at Stitch DC (well, free when you buy the materials there) -- it was on entrelac. Now, I love the look of entrelac, but it has always seemed like an insane amount of work to me.
However, it turns out that I picked up backward knitting -- knitting the purl side without turning the work, so that you're knitting knit stitches left to right with the left-hand needle -- with hardly a blink.
I didn't quite like the class pattern because it makes a sort of pillbox hat shape -- instead I'm making an ( entrelac scarf ), and picked up enough yarn to make a 4th Grade Hat to match.
It's made out of Lorna's Laces Shepherd Worsted in Flames, and O-Wool Classic in black.
It should be nifty.
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leeflower's Pay it Forward gift, though it doesn't look like much yet. ( Really ) -- at least the colorway is pretty.
Also, I went withcincodemaygirl to the local JoAnn's yesterday, and picked up a couple of tiny cross-stitch kits. They are nowhere near as nice as the leek kit, but it looks like my dad will be getting a miniature for Easter that has a pheasant on it -- maybe in a greeting card, if I can figure out how to mount it.
However, it turns out that I picked up backward knitting -- knitting the purl side without turning the work, so that you're knitting knit stitches left to right with the left-hand needle -- with hardly a blink.
I didn't quite like the class pattern because it makes a sort of pillbox hat shape -- instead I'm making an ( entrelac scarf ), and picked up enough yarn to make a 4th Grade Hat to match.
It's made out of Lorna's Laces Shepherd Worsted in Flames, and O-Wool Classic in black.
It should be nifty.
I've also started
leeflower's Pay it Forward gift, though it doesn't look like much yet. ( Really ) -- at least the colorway is pretty.Also, I went with
cincodemaygirl to the local JoAnn's yesterday, and picked up a couple of tiny cross-stitch kits. They are nowhere near as nice as the leek kit, but it looks like my dad will be getting a miniature for Easter that has a pheasant on it -- maybe in a greeting card, if I can figure out how to mount it.
