{"id":237,"date":"2011-01-26T17:49:44","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T17:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/?p=237"},"modified":"2015-08-08T17:50:36","modified_gmt":"2015-08-08T17:50:36","slug":"patchwork-lap-blanket-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/2011\/01\/26\/patchwork-lap-blanket-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Patchwork Lap Blanket (2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"patchwork<\/a><\/span><\/td>\nPattern:<\/span>\u00a0 Made up as I went along, with a border from “Around the corner crochet borders”<\/span>
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\nYarns:<\/span>\u00a0 ShiBuiKnits Merino Kid (#229, approx 1,100 yds); Koenig Farm Spinnery Kid Mohair (“Bird of Paradise”, approx 1,000yds); Caron Simply Soft (Sage, 7oz ~350yds)
\nMethod:\u00a0<\/span> Hand knitting
\nCompleted:<\/span>\u00a0 January 26, 2011.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

I’ve been inspired by the many beautiful patchwork quilts that people make — colourful geometrics.\u00a0 However, sewing and I do not get on nearly well enough to even contemplate taking up quilting.\u00a0 Instead, I wanted to try to knit something like that:\u00a0 working each piece of the panel as an individual knit module.\u00a0 So, here, I started with the centre diamond, then picked up the edge stitches to be the base of the next triangles, and their edges for the next triangles, etc.<\/p>\n

I made it as 9 patchwork panels, and then added the crochet edging on each, and crocheted them together.\u00a0 Finally, I crocheted a simple border around the whole thing.\u00a0 As this might be used as an extra layer to cover legs while sleeping, I didn’t want anything to “loopy” in the crochet edging — things that could catch fingers, for eg.\u00a0 I liked this edging (#25 from Edie Eckman’s “Around the Corner Crochet\u00a0 Borders”) because it also had an angular shape, like the shapes in the patchwork.\u00a0 The whole thing is 4’x4′ (each panel is about 16″ square).<\/p>\n

It was easy to get into sort of a “rhythm” as I was knitting — each panel’s components presented obvious milestones (“I’ll finish this set of triangles”, etc).\u00a0 Which caused me to also sort of note how long things were taking.\u00a0 This was interesting because it told me that the whole project took about 100 hours (8 hours per square, and\u00a0 then more time to weave in ends, block, edge each panel, and then put them together and put the border on the whole thing).\u00a0 It was also interesting because it reinforced that I’m not good at predicting a timeline — in theory, that gave me enough data to project when I’d be done.\u00a0 In practice, I guess I was optimistic about how much time I have to knit.\u00a0 Well, running out of the yarn I’d brought on one trip, with 2 days of meetings and an all day flight home, spelled frustration<\/a>, and put me so squarely behind schedule for Christmas delivery that I gave up trying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\"draped\"<\/a><\/span><\/td>\nDraped — loveseat for scale.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"centre<\/a>
\n<\/span><\/td>\n		Closeup of the centre panel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"edge<\/a>\"corner<\/a><\/span><\/td>\nDetail of the edging — side and corner<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"back\"<\/a><\/td>\nFrom the back side!\u00a0 Not really reversible, but this is at least somewhat presentable.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"square<\/a>\"closeup<\/a>\"blocking<\/a><\/td>\nIn progress:\u00a0 The left 2 pictures show a corner square being knit up, using the live stitches from the “bottom” of a triangle, on the left.In the rightmost picture — pre- and post-soak and blocking.\u00a0 The blocking caused the whole panel to “unfurl” properly.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"sc<\/a>\"sl<\/a>\"3<\/a><\/td>\nAssembly!Single crochet edging on each square.<\/p>\n

Slip stitch to join squares.<\/p>\n

Strip of three squares.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Pattern:\u00a0 Made up as I went along, with a border from “Around the corner crochet borders” Yarns:\u00a0 ShiBuiKnits Merino Kid (#229, approx 1,100 yds); Koenig Farm Spinnery Kid Mohair (“Bird of Paradise”, approx 1,000yds); Caron Simply Soft (Sage, 7oz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knitting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_4091-thmb.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7fEfz-3P","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions\/240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}