{"id":852,"date":"2014-10-25T19:25:25","date_gmt":"2014-10-25T23:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fallingblox.com\/?p=852"},"modified":"2014-10-25T19:25:25","modified_gmt":"2014-10-25T23:25:25","slug":"breaking-my-radio-silence-and-new-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallingblog.double-knitting.com\/?p=852","title":{"rendered":"Breaking my radio silence (and new ground)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been a bad little blogger (surprise surprise) but I have an excuse … I’ve been in “creative mode” for the past month or two, working on new ideas and, finally, I have a prototype for a new pattern.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, until the book is out, it only shows that this is possible and practical — there will be no instructions on it outside of the book for now. The sheer quantity of new techniques is going to make this piece prohibitively complex to release as a standalone pattern — sorry.<\/p>\n

\"ferronnerie-1\"<\/a>Without further ado, this is Ferronnerie. A French-named technique deserves a French-named pattern, and since this is double-knit entrelac, its name translates to “wrought-iron” in French. The yarn is Quince & Co Finch<\/a>, and it takes less than a skein of each of 4 colors, even for the largest size. Check out the brim<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n

There are a number of unique things you can do with DK entrelac that you can’t (easily) do in standard entrelac, but I’ll describe those at a later date. In short, for a number of reasons, I feel like double-knitting is incredibly well-suited to entrelac and I hope this will open some new creative doors for other designers in the future.<\/p>\n

As you may have seen in my previous post on double-knit entrelac<\/a>, I had a number of hurdles to overcome before I could do this. It’s what kept me from working it out earlier — but now that I’m in “creative mode” I’m in the mindset to systematically resolve many problems. Documenting them is still sketchy, however. In order to do this piece, I had to work out double-knit invisible short rows, double-knitting backward, picking up stitches along edges, keeping all 4 edges of each diamond fully locked, decreasing the sizes of the diamonds appropriately to shape the closure properly, and creating a final closure that requires minimal seaming. As you can imagine, this will take a whole chapter in my new book to properly document. I look forward to it — but it’s going to be a while.<\/p>\n

In other news<\/h4>\n

I have yet to schedule any LYS workshops for the Spring — if you know of any who’d be interested, please have them contact me — but in addition to the upcoming gigs this November and December, and the two big shows already scheduled for the Spring (see my previous post for dates<\/a>), I’d like to announce that I’m now scheduled for ANOTHER big show: Stitches South<\/a> in Nashville, TN, from April 23-26, 2015. I’ll post more upcoming dates once I’ve got them nailed down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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