{"id":1019,"date":"2016-05-26T09:00:19","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T13:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fallingblox.com\/?p=1019"},"modified":"2016-05-24T20:48:39","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T00:48:39","slug":"double-or-nothing-patterns-abaciscus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallingblog.double-knitting.com\/?p=1019","title":{"rendered":"Double or Nothing Patterns: Abaciscus"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I’m starting a new weekly post series! For the next 14 weeks, I’m going to post 1 pattern from my new book (in order of appearance) until they’re all posted. As I post them, I’m going to drop them into my Ravelry projects, my Instagram feed, Pinterest, Twitter, Facebook and Google+. What I’m trying to do is to get people to join my Double Or Nothing preorder mailing list<\/a>. This is a list which will be used once or twice as soon as I’m ready to take preorders for the book, and then deleted — so you’re not going to get spammed. Also, please feel free to share this post or any of the places it shows up on social media. This isn’t private; I want as many people to hear about it as possible!<\/p>\n

Of course, I’m going to let everyone know about the preorders eventually. So why join this list? I’m glad you asked! First, this will be the first list that will hear about the preorder availability. Second, I’ll ship roughly in the same order I receive orders, so the sooner you hear about it, the sooner you can order and the sooner you’ll get the book. Third and possibly most important, if this list reaches a pre-selected arbitrary number of members, I will sweeten the deal for members of this list only (the reward is kept purposely vague so I can decide exactly what it will be later).<\/p>\n

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Abaciscus<\/strong> is worked in Dirty Water Dyeworks Clara, a 100% Blue Faced Leicester worsted-weight wool.<\/p>\n

\"Abaciscus-GZ\"<\/a>When I\u2019m working on a new idea, sometimes I\u2019ll open a new file in Illustrator to start playing with shapes and see how they interrelate. In this case, I was playing with a hollow oblong, and how it could be made to look like it was linking up with others like it. As the tiling progressed, I was reminded of a carved Chinese wooden screen. My father lived in Taiwan for about a decade when I was in my adolescence, and when he finally came back he had a new wife, fluency in several Chinese dialects, and a large collection of Chinese art including a number of these screens which he mounted in his windows. So when I cast about for a name for the new cowl pattern, I wanted a Chinese word. The working title was \u201cYingzao\u201d which refers to a sort of ancient building-standards manual. But here\u2019s the thing about Chinese — a word\u2019s meaning can change depending on inflection. I didn\u2019t know the correct inflection and I didn\u2019t want to be caught saying (or making you say) something rude or nonsensical due to the wrong inflection — so I put out a call for naming suggestions. The winner was Nathan Taylor (aka sockmatician<\/a>) with \u201cAbaciscus\u201d so that\u2019ll be\u00a0the name going forward.<\/p>\n

\"Abaciscus-SM\"<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Something I\u2019m doing differently in Double Or Nothing than I did in\u00a0Extreme Double-Knitting is that I\u2019m trying to use yarn I\u2019m really excited about for some reason, not just yarn that\u2019s easy to get. If I understand my audience as I think I do, you\u2019re not the type of people to be put off if you can\u2019t get the exact yarn in the exact colors I knit it in. You\u2019re willing to go to some length to use awesome yarn, but you\u2019re also willing to substitute when necessary. So I\u2019m going to talk up the yarns I chose — with the hopes that you\u2019ll also get excited about them, search them out and use them. But I\u2019ll understand if you don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

One of m\"Abaciscus-AW\"<\/a>y tenets is \u201cbuy local\u201d whenever possible. That doesn\u2019t mean I never order stuff from Amazon, but if it\u2019s something I can get from a local business I try to do so. It also means that if I know someone who, like me, is trying to keep a small craft-based business afloat, I keep them in mind when I\u2019m deciding on those sorts of materials or products. Dirty Water Dyeworks<\/a> is one such company. Stephanie has been an active member of the Common Cod Fiber Guild, which I cofounded with a couple of friends back in 2008, for quite some time and it\u2019s been great to watch her build her business from a small Boston-area brand to a yarn line popular all over New England and beyond. Unlike many up-and-coming indie dyers, Dirty Water branches out of the solely Superwash Merino blends and takes risks with breed-specific wools as well. Granted, it\u2019s not much of a risk — people are getting more and more into yarns from breeds like Cormo, Polwarth, Targhee, and Blue Faced Leicester (or BFL for short). The yarn I chose for this pattern is one such 100% BFL base, and the lovely hand and slight shimmer are more than enough reason to search out this or some other worsted-weight BFL.<\/span><\/p>\n

Interested in this pattern? It’ll be coming out in my new book “Double Or Nothing: Reversible Knitwear For The Adventurous” in December of 2016. Get the news first when it’s ready for preorder by joining the mailing list!<\/a> Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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