So yesterday I learnt entrelac. It was interesting and certainly easier to turn so often using circs rather than straights but.....I dunno. Not a technique I'll use unless it's part of a pattern I like. It takes a long time, lots of counting and meh. It's like lace, just a bit too much concentration for me. I started a celtic knot stole this year,got 4 rows in and am probably going to frog it.
Anyhoo, some photos:
The entrelac:
I also had an epiphany with the sezession idea and used two colours:
Yes you do have to cut the yarn every 2 rows but with such a contrast as off-white and black it looks amazing.
But, yes. I've lost my mojo. I just can't seem to find a pattern that I want to do. I cast on about six different things in the last 3 days and frogged them all. Ah well, something will catch me.
5 comments:
Well done on working out entrelac. I've looked at an entrelac pattern before and my head nearly exploded trying to figure it out. I don't know if it was just a badly written pattern, but it well and truly scared me off.
Well, I found a very nice tutorial on Ravelry that I linked to with my project. If you ever fancy giving it a go again try that, it's really simple.
Excellent, I'll check that out. I've seen one or two entrelac patterns I liked, but had never had much hope of making them.
it's not easy, entrelac, but I like the result (I couldn't do it again though, too much concentration for me too...)
I love your 2-colour shawl
and I have had NO knitting for days so I lost it too... :(
(still thinking about what to do with your wonderful yarn...)
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