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[camwyn]

Color chart for the Heroes squiggle here. Assumptions: working in Fair Isle, working with a seven-stitch repeat. Ignore the multicolour nature of the picture. The only erasable item I had at hand was a mechanical pencil with multiple colours in the lead.

Working on a headband/earwarmer with this pattern. I'll let you know if I've sized it properly before I continue further.

Will scan the Elder Sign patterns when I get the chance.

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[kelathefinn.livejournal.com]

Is this like a cable (with 'cross-overs') or only knit and perle? Can't quite figure it out...

[camwyn]

Oh- no, sorry, it's supposed to be main-colour and contrasting-colour. I haven't tried to draw up any cable patterns of my own yet. Fair Isle's just repetitive pattern two-colour knitting with both strands carried at the same time, not to have any 'floats' or 'carries' longer than seven stitches (at least this is what I learned from my books, dunno if the def differs in other countries).

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Psst.

I took your scan aside for a kind word and a 2x4:



Is that correct?

-- Lorrie

[camwyn]

Bingo!

[lwood.livejournal.com]

[deleted/reposted to make obnoxiously huge graphic smaller]

Feel free to post as well--the four-color pencil has charm and all, but the Photoshop Special might be easier to use.

Some day...SOME DAY...I will sit down, interlace these guys, and actually knuckle down to Fair Isle:



But until then, just now, I'm making Sea Socks (http://www.knitty.com/issuewinter05/PATTpomatomus.html) for erynn999. Which, if you do that same business in black, with some fluffy yarn on top and a slight sparkle throughout, I am told are Most Assuredly Raven Socks, and dpaxson would like a pair, please and thank you.

-- Lorrie

[kelathefinn.livejournal.com]

OK. This isn't the pattern depicted in the little icon, is it? That definitely looks like knit/perle... thanks for the new term, I didn't know 'Fair Isle' from cable ... Most of the stuff I do for warmth here in Finland is done in two or three or four colours - you change the two or three colour 'floats' at the seam, carrying them 'inside' the piece for 5 stitches and then breaking them off and running them back through the previous stitch with a yarn-needle. I love this. You know you can use the same patterns for cross-stitch, of course.

[kelathefinn.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm. On second glance, it could just be that the contrasting black colour makes it LOOK like it is 'higher' than the stitches beside it... Lovely, in any case. Might just have to try this one.

[camwyn]

No, no, the pattern is from a blanket that I made a few years ago for a knitting contest sponsored by a yarn company. And that was definitely just kinitting and purling. I did cable segments in green and stitch samplers of different knit-purl arrangements in the off-white, then bordered the whole thing in garter stitch (mostly so I could meet the contest's size requirements).

[neotoma.livejournal.com]

I have Stitch and Motif maker. Want me to clean up your chart for you?

[camwyn]

If you wouldn't mind? I'll try to get the Elder Sign versions up tomorrow, too.