Damn, Knit & Blast It

I’ve really enjoyed the burst of creativity in making my Conservatory Cushion and I  love the logic bound technique for combining the colours.

Fabulous pattern
Here’s the finished creation…

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And in place in the conservatory…

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The slightly different gauge yarns I used (all apparently DK weight) really made the squares  different sizes. I blocked the hell out of the finished front and pinned the squares to size and let them dry – seems to have worked but another time – I’d try harder to use the same yarn.

I really made my life difficult by using the mohair in the “joints”too. Fuzzy, sticky and disguising any hint of a stitch – not ideal when picking up stitches. It kinda works though  and gives a different texture so I’m happy.

It did mean it was easy to join the two sides . I picked up and knit one row around the front of the cushion then cast it off. Then I simply oversewed it to the “knobbles” on the ends of the garter stitch back of the cushion…

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The strange thing is…

…I think I like the way the B-side even better -that’s the back to all of you too young to remember 45rpm single records

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I love the way the colours pool and seem to form waves…

… So much so that I’ve used this picture as my desktop background on my Computer!

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How sad am I? But, but….it looks so pretty….

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So how did I do the back?

I looked at the front and saw that there were in fact 10 different combinations of yarn, using it double.

I used the technique of knitting diagonally to get a square (start with one stitch and increase in the last stitch of every row until wide enough over the diagonal then decrease at the end of every row).

I picked a progression of 6 of the combinations that always carried one of the colours into the next stripe and picked up the next colour. Then I had 4 combinations left over so I just bunged them on top!!

Here’s a mini pattern if you’re interested  how the colours went – or were supposed to go !  I messed up a couple of time but ~I won’t tell if you wont!! (Look at the missing dark stripe in a couple of places…

Y= Yellow

L= Light Green

M=Mid green

D= Dark green

Use two stands held together in the following combinations:

Row 1    Y & Y

Row 2    Y & L

Row 3    L & L

Row 4    L & M

Row 5    M & M

Row 6    M & D

Row 7    D & D

Row 8    D & L

Row 9    Y & M

Row 10 Y & D

…And repeat until you’re done.

I think both sides go  well with the “inspiration cushion” but what do you think?

Front or back? Which is best??

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