Knitter Gone Rogue

I was truly tickled to get an email from Dianne Littleton. Here is a bit of what she said about knitting the Reversible Honeycomb Hat:

“I started the hat with the instructions given and then pulled it out and started it again using the modified method. Was just so much easier for my brain – it really becomes mindless knitting for me – I just get it.

Of course there is the issue of the start of row and hiding that. So the first pattern repeat I kept the row start in the middle; this showed a line (I’ll grab a picture and send you but I”m sure you know what I’m talking about). So the next time the pattern moved from the BOR I let the BOR move with the pattern stitches. It meant moving stitches back and forth at the beginning of each row as the 2 colours moved away from each other but it worked quite well. Not so easy to write in a pattern but as I said I just get it and don’t really follow the pattern too much, just the direction of the moving pattern stitches.

Anyways that was my adventure and I really enjoyed it. I also realize that I could never be a test knitter because I go rogue too easily!”

The Reversible Honeycomb Hat was one of my earlier designs & it uses the Original Fusion Technique. The Modified Fusion technique creates the same motifs but is much easier to work. (Fusion designs published in 2022 or later use the modified technique).

Dianne is a member of the KW Knitters Guild (they are now a virtual group — consider joining!). When I need to practice teaching a technique, the KW guild has been there for me! Dianne got the extended unpolished version of my Modified Fusion Knitting class.

I am thrilled that Dianne was able to easily change an original pattern to Modified Fusion — what I taught in that class made sense to her! And she has found a way to hide the BOR that I now need to try!

I love when knitters tell me they are going rogue with my techniques. We all get different ideas of things to try. The sharing of ideas spawns more ideas. I get so excited about innovations in knitting.

Thank you Dianne for sharing.