Baby Blanket

I love it when during a Fission Knitting class, a student says “I’m going rogue”. It means that the person has a full understanding of how Fission Knitting works. They then go about creating their own design on each side of the fabric.

One of my goals when I teach Fission Knitting, it to show the independence of the designs on each side of the fabric. That is, when you are working one side of the fabric, you don’t need to know what design is on the other side. If you follow the Rules of Fission Knitting, you can place any two designs on each side of the fabric.

This blanket was created following the 3 Rules of Fission Knitting. This allowed me pair the leaf motif from the Secret Garden Blanket and a houndstooth knitted weave without creating a pattern for the combined motif.

The woven design was chosen because it is very repetitive. Once I set it up, I could knit it without constantly referring to a pattern.

I used the charts from the Secret Garden Blanket to tell me where to place the design elements and how the cables should move. The placement of the design elements relative to the background stitches as in the Secret Garden motif.

The charts and written instructions for the Secret Garden are huge. The charts for this blanket would be even bigger because the weave structure uses a lot more stitches than the original trellis structure. For this reason, I doubt that I will make a pattern for this.

I will be designing a cowl in the houndstooth motif soon. The Secret Garden motif is already available. Putting the two motifs together is possible by following the 3 Rules of Fission Knitting. Perhaps you would like to try it one day?