Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Bloops in Triangles

I continue the exploration of Planet Bloop.


(This shows the shawl hanging in my office.)

My exploration was whether bloops would work with increases. I think it was a success.


It was knit vertically, increasing one stitch at the beginning of each ridge, and leaving a tail at the beginning and end to make the fringe. (I knotted them together as I went along.) When it seemed long enough, I began decreasing at the beginning of each row instead.


The first few ridges were done plain, and then I started a small bloop sequence with a plain row in between the bloop rows. The part that worried me was the end bloops: what would happen as the rows increased, and then decreased? How do the bloops work there?


What I ended up doing was saving the bloop nearest to the edge until the end of each sequence on the increase side, and making it the first bloop in the sequence on the decrease side, just to be sure it was accounted for. In retrospect I don't know for sure if I needed to do that, but it worked well enough.


However, on the increase side I did learn to make the bloop next to the final edge one as early as possible, because as the edge grew, it was easy to end up having to finish a sequence with a lot of bloops next to each other, which didn't help the random look I was after. On the decrease side, I had to be careful to make the ones near the top early on.




The pictures don't show it very clearly, but the top edge is again the ruffle yarn.

2 comments:

  1. Ciao,
    ho scoperto ora questo blog bellissimo!!
    Peccato non sia in italiano!
    Proverò comunque a studiare questa tecnica.
    Complimenti.
    Nadia, Torino,Italy

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  2. Thank you for your kind comment! I hope you can figure it out in translation. I've had to do the same thing with several German blogs, and it isn't easy, so good luck!

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