Strrrripes!
Stripes.
One simply cannot have too many stripes.
Therefore, strrripes:
Strrrripes!
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OK, so the challenge was and still is this: how do you start from one shoulder and wind your way down to the hem in one piece of knitting, while striping and with absolutely minimal cutting and joining of skeins? And achieving symmetry? And no finishing left to do when you’re done?
Ziggurating!
The challenge is still on for even if the Ziggurat method is now worked out and finessed in general – I have so far worked out the turns and joins for 6-row stripes (as in the blue/green cardigan above) and 4-row stripes (below) – there are other possibilities…
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Each variant of striping and pullover versus cardigan works differently; the colour change has to happen in different places – unless one likes cutting, joining, sewing. That, too, is of course possible.
(I like sewing. I like knitting. I just don’t like to sew my knitting. When I’m done knitting, I want to be done done.)
Oh, and a knitter just asked about using multiple colours, not just two. I have work to do!
p.s. The fabulous yarn for the Strrripes cardigan at the top is dyed by Ce of The Uncommon Thread. Her BFL Sock yarn has fantastic sheen and drape. It’s almost hard to believe there is no silk involved. The happy, gorgeous orange & red in the other cardigan, bajads, are dyed by Tuulia of Knitlob’s Lair. The yarn is Väinämöinen, a 4-ply sock yarn.
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2 Comments
Dear Asa,
I plan to make “Strrripes” with one ball of some colorful Kauni and two balls of one of their solids. I will get automatic color changes without much effort (I hope).
This will be my first Ziggurat, so it will be an adventure.
Any chance of your developing a worsted weight pattern?
Joyce T
Hello Joyce!
That sounds like an inspired idea!
I love those graduated changes but have never (yet) knitted with Kauni. Does it soften with wash and wear?
And yes, I do have plans to publish most of my designs in a choice of weights, including worsted weight – or at least somewhere near enough. Thanks for spurring me on! I’m hoping to put together a book and ebook with a collection and variants, so that it’ll be easy enough to adapt to different weights and gauge/tension that fall in between, so to speak. (This is a distinct possibility because of fabulous technical editor, Stephanie Boardman, who grades, resizes, and calculates whenever she’s not scaling mountains.)
Next up is a striped pullover in DK weight (6-row stripes).
Good luck with Ziggurating!