The twin’s mother, my dear friend Katie, admires Dasher. I can see her little girls wearing Dasher and I must knit it for them. This is not a rational thing, but it’s a thing, I’m sure you can relate. (This does mean 4 sleeves. This does mean two sweaters in fingering weight yarn. This does mean using the the i-cord bind off many times and then picking up many stitches. Fortunately they are only going to be wearing size 2 years next fall.) It’s the picking up many stitches part that brings me to reality. I just don’t want to pick up that many stitches, however tidy it looks. (Go look at Dasher, isn’t the contrast piping adorable?)
Knitting moves horizontally when the the stitches oscillate in short rows, increase and decrease at the same time. Thinking about SRS and other horizontal knitting, I wondered if there was a way to combine an i-cord cast on and an i-cord bind off to make an i-cord insertion. So I did an experimental swatch, and oh my word, it worked. Like Lego Batman’s first try, but anyway…
I wrote to Ann Kingston, because I wasn’t sure how she’d feel if I wrote about part of her pattern as a chore! She wrote back:
Hi Christine,
I’m honoured! Post about it just as you wish. Modifying patterns to accommodate your own knitting preferences is a huge part of the fun of being an accomplished knitter!
Warm regards,
AnnPs Tell your friend the designer is an identical twin!
I love being able to contact knitting people.
I have 3 posts coming:
- I-cord insertion with the one color.
- First fabric in main color, i-cord and following fabric in contrasting color.
- First fabric in main color, i-cord in contrasting color A, and following fabric in contrasting color B.