Happy Holidays

I was testing a new weave structure when I knit this swatch. I was also testing a new to me yarn. The green & white was looking very Christmasy to me so I added a wonky little tree on the back.

I’m very excited about showing you how to do my kind of woven knitting in the new year. I’ve started to write up some of the easier patterns.

I have combined my woven knitting with Fission Knitting to create this swatch. Actually this form of woven knitting is really just Fission Knitting with a very dense cable structure and regular cable movements.

The tree was knitted without any plan — that’s why it’s lopsided. I relied on the 3 Rules of Fission Knitting to move all the branches into the right positions.

As I mentioned in my previous post, not all Fission Knitting is perfectly reversible. I am quite sure that if I knitted this tree onto a fabric with less cable coverage on the other side, we would see a white shadow of the tree.

Do I expect to write patterns with a picture on one side and a weave on the other? I really doubt it. As I work on ways to express the woven knitting in pattern form, the beauty is how repetitive the pattern is. If I put a picture onto one side of the fabric, it would break up the repetition and the pattern would be ridiculously long.

As I teach Fission Knitting, one of my goals is to show that you can treat each side of the fabric independently. I’m hoping that others (you) can start placing designs on both sides of the fabric as easily as you do one sided design.

I have a busy holiday break planned. I don’t know how much knitting will happen but I do know I will be dreaming about what to knit next.

Wishing you a happy holiday season. May you have beautifully knitted dreams. Best wishes for 2024.

Mary