{"id":13396,"date":"2020-08-23T21:51:34","date_gmt":"2020-08-23T20:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=13396"},"modified":"2023-07-24T22:28:08","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T21:28:08","slug":"daily_2048_-_new_knitting_project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2020\/08\/23\/daily_2048_-_new_knitting_project\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 2048 – new knitting project"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had bought a wonderful yarn at some point – a variegated Viking Nordlys. It is sold as a sock yarn, and that’s what I bought it for. But when I touched it, the yarn felt so soft and thin that I thought I’d wear right through it if I made it into socks. So I went looking for a new project for it.<\/p>\n

There is a wonderful knitting site called Ravelry<\/a>. Everything on Ravelry is indexed and linked to everything else – yarns to projects to patterns, and so on. Each pattern links to actual projects that actual people have made following that pattern – often you can see many varieties of a cardigan, which really helps to see what it could look like. And there are thousands upon thousands of patterns. It’s my first point of call when I am looking for ideas for knitting projects.<\/p>\n

I looked for projects using the Nordlys yarn, found some, which sparked new ideas, and finally decided on this Icicle scarf<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ordered the book (Nancy Marchant’s Knitting Fresh Brioche<\/i><\/a>). Waited nearly two weeks for it to arrive. Opened it, and nearly gave up. The patterns looked very intimidating. The written instructions for this scarf cover over two full pages!<\/p>\n

Still, I tried it out with some scrap yarn, and it turned out to be quite doable, as long as I paid close attention to what I was doing. As soon as I didn’t, I started making mistakes, and the only way to recover from a mistake in two-colour brioche is to rip up everything you did since the mistake, one stitch at a time.<\/p>\n

After the first 20 rows or so, I started getting the hang of it. I put away the swatch and started on the real thing with my beautiful yarn. With some practice, the pattern doesn’t require quite that single-minded focus any more. I can see the pattern in the pattern, so to say, and understand it rather than just follow it mechanically. It’s actually quite fun to knit.<\/p>\n

And just look at how beautifully the scarf is turning out! On the front, the orange\/yellow\/green yarn is like autumn leaves, with the light gray like a cloudy autumn sky peeking through the leaves, providing depth and contrast. The rear side is like the first day of winter, with the autumn leaves covered in hoarfrost.
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