Phew. That’s some title.
I made another Sempervivum hexagon back in May while I was proctoring a standardized test for homeschooled middle schoolers. And then it sat on my sewing desk all summer. And now it’s the GAL. Tell me I’m not the only one with trailing ambitions?
Let’s say you made a lot of motifs and either bound them off with picots, or cast them on with picots, or gave them picot selvages, and you didn’t want to join them up as you knit them, or connect them with a crochet hook (or knitting needles) as if they were hairpin lace, or use Gannet’s Russian Grafting, you could take all these motifs with their picot (aka eyelet) edgings, and join them up with the lacy tape between them, it’s like leading in a stained glass window. If your motifs are random stash busted pieces, the uniform tape can harmonize them. (I’m not promising miracles here – if you step back and hate a motif placement even with the breathing room of a contrasting tape, frog while you can!)
If you love lots of color in a shawl or afghan, but hate holding more than one strand of yarn at a time… give this a shot. There are still a lot of ends to work in, and you will need to plan ways you can make a long connecting line of Lacy Tape without lots of annoying starts and stops. You may need to turn corners with more joins on one side than the other, I haven’t played with curving lines yet.
So, some review and for Lacy Tape, the second loop of the yo twice is dropped on the turn.
Cast on 5
Row 1: Yo twice, k2tog, k3.
Repeat row 1.
So, to use it in-between motifs is a little different:
Pick up the sts on one side of a motif on one needle, and the sts on the other motif on the other needle. Cast on 4 sts in between the picked up sts, k1 in the first picot loop of the motif you are joining. Turn.
Row 1: Yo, k3tog, k3, k1 in the first picot loop of the other motif you are joining. Turn.
Repeat Row 1.
