Saw someone wearing a jacket fashioned from a circular blanket, just had to try it. A week later, two circular blankets are in progress, one from the Elann "pinwheel" pattern, the other from Elizabeth Zimmermann's "Pithy Directions for a Plain, Circular Shawl."
The methods of construction for the two could not be more different, so it will be necessary to construct two blankets when I had only intended to make one. How else to learn?
One set of exciting, new construction techniques is going back to the library untouched, though. Mathew Gnagy's
Knitting Off the Axis (Interweave Press, 2011) is full of beautiful, complex jacket designs. It will just have to wait until the project queue is shorter.
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| Beginning of Elann's pinwheel pattern |
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| Beginning of "Pithy Directions" circle construction -- Ms. Zimmermann might wonder what happened to her pattern! |
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| Cover of Elizabeth Zimmermann's book -- notice the very non-pithy circular blanket at the center. |
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| This is the one I "threw back," though every design is delicious... |
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| "Pithy" circle will soon be to the point where one adds sleeves |
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