I’ve been working swatches from ‘Charted Knitting Designs’ again for the Walker Treasury Project 🙂 I’ve posted 10 new ones so far: Spliced Oval Double Texture Cable Embossed Heart Braid X Locked Square Cable Front-Cross Gnarled Cable Back-Cross Gnarled Cable Gnarled Wave Cable Reverse Gnarled Wave Cable Slip Cross Cable with Bobbles I’ve finished working…
WTP and sampler blanket
The Walker Treasury Project is back! The WTP, is ‘ a pooling of efforts to illustrate in color all five of the Walker treasuries’. The project was founded back in January 2007 by Nicole Hindes of allbuttonedup. So far we have illustrated nearly 300 swatches from the five books, which include the 1st 2nd 3rd…
Blanket Squares 37 – 44
In the spirit of experiments and a determination to get this blanket done, I made another few squares. They are all from ‘Charted Knitting Designs’, so they are also on the Walker Treasury Project 🙂 I have an idea for the centre, but am still swatching that. Acanthus Leaf Triple-Twist Lace Egg and Dart Frieze…
Twisted Cable: blanket square 36
Yarn: Generic wool/acrylic dk Wraps Per Inch: 10 wpi Needles: 3mm aluminium (prym) Gauge: 27 st and 35 rows to 10cm/4 inches in stockinette Pattern: Torsade Nouée (twisted cable) Stitch Count Repeat: Multiple of 30 stitches Book: Le tricot en 300 points, by Karen Hemingway Page: 134-135 This is the cable I was talking about…
Blanket Squares 34-35
Wanting to experiment a bit, I looked through Barbara Walker’s 3rd treasury for a couple of charts that I’ve wanted to do for a while. Both “The Spider” and “The Turtle” had looked rather daunting before I did all the swatches for the Walker Treasury Project. After another look at the two charts and because…
Blanket Squares 22 – 33
I’ve been on holiday for the last two weeks, enjoying a whole load of craftwork, knitting, visiting friends and avoiding paperwork. In the midst of all this, I finally completed my wtp posts for a whole load more ‘squares’ that I finished for the blanket. Most of them involve closed cables, and two were were…
Blanket Squares 16 – 21
I’ve been doing more swatches for the Walker Treasury Project that are doubling as ‘squares’ for the blanket. The purple one is from a while back, but the others are all from the last 2 weeks. Had wanted quick results after working on Chameleon for so long! And the latest ones are not pink –…
Walker Treasury Project
Sampler blanket: squares 11-15 I mentioned the other day that I’d signed up for the blog. Well… I kinda got carried away! I’ve finished 5 swatches already: Double wave and pod cable Wave and pod cable Apple Tree Sidewinder Barred and Braided Cable Check em out and others as I add more 😀
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