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An entirely new bind off had to be developed for double knit twisted rib. I am so very grateful to a particular member of my fibre community would spent ages figuring out this bind off for me. It’s kinda evil (but not as evil as a previous iteration) and achieves the same stretchyness & look…
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Before weaving ends in & during blocking. The pattern said to ‘block severely’, so I did; with great prejudice mind you because blocking took 2 hours & almost stole my sanity attempting to get the scalloped edge right because I was not helped by my stiff cast on.
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There is sooo much concentration happening as I learn how to do wrap & turn short rows. You can see already how the short rows are forcing the piece into more of a triangle shape; the pumpkin marker is the middle where the short rows started.
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The colourwork is finally done & I just have to do the ribbing. Before I do that though, I’m going to weave in a lifeline because I’m terrified I’m going to stuff up the ribbing colour control and I really don’t want to tink whole rows…
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This is getting unwieldy & difficult to photograph progress. But I’ve only got 10 rows left of colourwork design left before the top ribbing section so I’m super excited to finish it.
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Hubert would like to present a basket of yarn cakes ready for plying & the latest singles of my dyed red panda spin.
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More progress on the fossil cowl. It took me a week of knitting every day before dinner to add another inch to the design. Double knitting is slow yet worth it!
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Progress on my double knit fossil cowl. This is honestly going to take forever as I can only comfortably do 2-3 rounds at a time, but realistically I am actually knitting 2 pieces of fabric at once! This is the bottom ribbing and the first few rows of the colourwork. Stay tuned!
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A frustrating pictorial tale of figuring out double knitting twisted rib stitch. Because I decided the stranded colourwork fossil cowl needed to be completely reversible & highly plush…
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Process pics of creating some practice colourwork mug rugs. I’m teaching myself stranded colourwork knitting because I want to make up a lovely cowl pattern I found. I don’t really enjoy knitting but finished colourwork is worth it.