What's on your hooks and needles in April 2024?
What surprises await your fellow KASers, from your hooks and needles this month?
I hope it's lots of this.....
and this....
and this....
and this.....
But none of this...............
Colour of the Month (CoM) is
BROWN!
Now some might consider brown a pretty boring colour to put in a child's blanket, but there are soooo many shades......and it complements sooooo many other colours. I'm thinking mint green , lemon, lilac and lavender, turquoise...to name a few. So, if you have some 'browns' lurking in the bottom of your stash, drag them out...this is their moment (month) to shine!!
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So pretty!
Very clever xx
Love the look of these squares, Bev. The texture adds that extra dimension.
Beautiful Bev, I love the stitch 👍
These are exquisite, Bev. I've never heard of linen stitch in knitting - is the name interchangeable with moss stitch like it is in crochet?
I've read about linen stitch in knitting over the years, Patricia. Once read an article comparing 'linen stitch' which uses slipped stitches on both front and back of work to 'half linen stitch' which uses slipped stitches only on the front. Unfortunately, I can't relocate it now! I seem to remember it saying that 'linen stitch' made a very tight and dense fabric, due to all those slipped stitches, while 'half linen stitch' was a bit more flexible since the number of slipped stitches was reduced by half. Isn't it amazing all the various things we can do with just a couple sticks and piece of string!
Good Heavens! I'll be interested to see what Bev says about this.
This is the pattern I used.....
https://www.knittingstitchpatterns.com/2016/04/linen-stitch.html
I had bought the yarn from Lovecrafts (UK) online a couple years back, but found it thinnish for an 8 ply/DK, so thought this might be the answer to use some of it, without having to 'double strand' knit.
I used 4.5mm needles, 'cos I had trialled this pattern or something very similar, a year or two back with thicker yarn with the correct sized needles, and found it (as Sharon has said) very stiff, so this time, although it was thinner yarn, I used 4.5mm needles and it is still reasonably firm, but not quite so 'tight' as my previous attempt.
The first square was certainly a test for my brain, but after a while I got into the rhythm, provided I didn't get too engrossed in a tv programme and forget what I was doing....haha.
Great experience and valuable information from you Bev. Thank You for letting us know how it worked for you.
Thanks for that, Bev. I never can resist a new pattern - even if it is knitting! Your perseverence was certainly worth the effort.
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