Knitted Sample Squares 7

As promised yesterday, here is my second post this week. I have five more knitted sample squares to show. If you have been keeping track, I have been working through Margaret Hubert’s book “The Complete Photo Guide to Knitting” and making a sample square of about 5″ x 5″ for each pattern. Eventually I will have enough squares to sew together for a blanket. Previous sample square posts can be found here: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. Here they are!

Vertical Bobbles

 

Hazel Nut

 

Almonds

 

Bell Pulls

 

Stamen Stitch

Knitted Sample Squares 6 and Free Knit Pattern

I have six more knitted sample squares this week. If you have been keeping track, I have been working through Margaret Hubert’s book “The Complete Photo Guide to Knitting” and making a sample square of about 5″ x 5″ for each pattern. Eventually I will have enough squares to sew together for a blanket. Previous sample square posts can be found here: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

Garden Fence

Seed Checks

Arrow Heads

Leaf Clusters

Mosaics

Lace Medallions

The directions supplied in the book for this pattern only described the lower half of the medallion, even though the photo clearly showed that the medallion had a distinct upper half. So, I determined a way to complete the pattern, and I present it to you, as a free knitting pattern!

Directions:

• Cast on a multiple of 8 plus 2.
• “m1p” = put the yarn from between the two stitches below onto the left needle, then purl into it. This is similar to the make one stitch, only you purl instead of knitting.
• Row 1 and 3 (RS): K1, p3, *k2, p6, rep from *, to last 6 sts, end k2, p3, k1
• Row 2 and 4: K4, p2, *k6, p2, rep from *, end k4
• Row 5: K1, p2, *k2tog, yo, ssk, p4, rep from *, end last rep p2, k1
• Row 6: K3, *p1, k into front and back of next st, p1, k4, rep from *, end last rep k3
• Row 7: K1, p1, *k2tog, yo, k2, yo, ssk, p2, rep from *, end last rep p1, k1
• Row 8: K2, *p6, k2, rep from *
• Row 9: K1, p1, *m1p, ssk, yo, k2tog, yo, k2tog, m1p, p2, rep from *, end last rep p1, k1
• Row 10: K3, *p2, p2tog,p1, k4, rep from *, end last rep k3
• Row 11: K1, p2, *m1p, ssk, yo, k2tog, m1p, p4, rep from *, end last rep p2, k1
• Row 12: K4, *p1, p2tog, k6, rep from *, end last rep k4
• Repeat Rows 1-12 for pattern

Knitted Sample Squares 5

I’ve been back at work on the knit sample squares, as in these previous four posts: 1, 2, 3, 4. The book I am following is Margaret Hubert’s “The Complete Photo Guide to Knitting”.  I’ve got five more patterns/textures this week, plus a few observations about knitting and this book.

Herringbone

Diagonal Columns

Bells

Basket Weave

Fence Posts

Working on the patterns, I came across a couple of misprints in the book I am using. I’ll share my findings and corrections where I can in case anyone out there is using the same book.

• Page 60 & 61: The picture supplied for “Stockinette Seed Diamonds I” is actually created using the directions for “Stockinette Seed Diamonds II”, and vice versa. The pictures and directions are simply reversed.
• Page 69: The Bells pattern creates the bells by casting on 5 extra stitches to make a three dimensional opening, but only decreases by 4 at the top of each bell. This would create an increase of 1 stitch per bell before the pattern repeats again, which would interfere with the “Cast on a multiple of 8” direction. To fix this, I replaced “Row 10: Knit” with “Row 10: K2 *k3, k2tog, rep from * end k6.
• Page 70 & 71: The directions for “Fence Posts Blocked” and “Fence Posts Not Blocked” are identical. The pictures supplied are only slightly different, with the one on the left (Fence Posts Not Blocked) appearing to have the stockinette lines bend towards the garter ridges a little more.
  
  
  
  This difference did not seem substantial, so I simply followed the supplied directions, calling the pattern “Fence Posts”. Maybe with some thought I could have puzzled out the change in pattern, but it did not seem important.

As for my personal observations this week, my bind off rows still need some work. I can’t seem to make the tension of the bind off row the same as the rest of the work – usually ending up too long and stretching the work, or too short and squishing the end.