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Combining knitting with crocheting
On a future project, I am considering knitting a bedspread afghan with
seed stitch and slipping the first stitch on each row in order to have a nice tight stitch to do a crocheted border around the entire afghan. Has anyone seen a pattern something like this that combines crochet with knitting? I am thinking about using Lion Brand Wool-Ease® Thick & Quick®: (or equivalent) http://cache.lionbrand.com/yarns/we-thick.htm to make the bedspread afghan. I want to make this for my eldest daughter and she has a queen size bed. My question, is that I want a 6 inch contrasting crocheted border with a single color seed-stitched internal panel. I would love if'n you talented color coordinated folks would help me pick a light color center panel with a darker colored border and tell me how much of each yarn I would need to complete such a large project. I have flex needles that can be configured to knit any width, so I don't need to do separate center panels and then stitch them together later. I can do the center panel as one piece. I would be using the recommended needle and hook sizes for this Lion yarn - Size 14 needles for knitting and Size N hook for crocheting. Thanks for your help, and happy hooking and needling to all of you! Padishar Creel |
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Combining knitting with crocheting
I have made several afghans with knitted panels, squares, or whole, and
edged with crochet. It works very well. Padishar Creel wrote: On a future project, I am considering knitting a bedspread afghan with seed stitch and slipping the first stitch on each row in order to have a nice tight stitch to do a crocheted border around the entire afghan. Has anyone seen a pattern something like this that combines crochet with knitting? I am thinking about using Lion Brand Wool-Ease® Thick & Quick®: (or equivalent) http://cache.lionbrand.com/yarns/we-thick.htm to make the bedspread afghan. I want to make this for my eldest daughter and she has a queen size bed. My question, is that I want a 6 inch contrasting crocheted border with a single color seed-stitched internal panel. I would love if'n you talented color coordinated folks would help me pick a light color center panel with a darker colored border and tell me how much of each yarn I would need to complete such a large project. I have flex needles that can be configured to knit any width, so I don't need to do separate center panels and then stitch them together later. I can do the center panel as one piece. I would be using the recommended needle and hook sizes for this Lion yarn - Size 14 needles for knitting and Size N hook for crocheting. Thanks for your help, and happy hooking and needling to all of you! Padishar Creel |
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Combining knitting with crocheting
On 12 Aug 2006 21:28:57 -0700, "Padishar Creel"
spewed forth : On a future project, I am considering knitting a bedspread afghan with seed stitch and slipping the first stitch on each row in order to have All I can see are the miles and miles and miles and miles of Martyr Stitch... I'm turning out "yardage" stockinette for baby blankets on one of my antique flatbed machines using baby-weight superwash wool. Ladies in the hospital's volunteer brigade crochet or knit on edgings, but they have a beaded edge to work with because of the nature of the machine-knitted fabric. I much prefer picking up and knitting or crocheting into a chained slip-stitch edging when given a choice of initial construction method. +++++++++++++ Reply to the list as I do not publish an email address to USENET. This practice has cut my spam by more than 95%. Of course, I did have to abandon a perfectly good email account... |
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Combining knitting with crocheting
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Padishar Creel wrote: On a future project, I am considering knitting a bedspread afghan with seed stitch and slipping the first stitch on each row in order to have a nice tight stitch to do a crocheted border around the entire afghan. Has anyone seen a pattern something like this that combines crochet with knitting? Not exactly like that, but when I first started knitting in the 1960s, virtually all patterns had a narrow crocheted edge. It's not at all unheard of. American single crochet (UK double crochet) is almost the same as binding off, anyway. I am thinking about using Lion Brand Wool-Ease® Thick & Quick®: (or equivalent) http://cache.lionbrand.com/yarns/we-thick.htm to make the bedspread afghan. I want to make this for my eldest daughter and she has a queen size bed. Thick & Quick on US size 14 needles ought to work up fairly quickly, even for a queen size. That'll be a thick and heavy afghan. My question, is that I want a 6 inch contrasting crocheted border with a single color seed-stitched internal panel. I would love if'n you talented color coordinated folks would help me pick a light color center panel with a darker colored border and tell me how much of each yarn I would need to complete such a large project. snip I would be using the recommended needle and hook sizes for this Lion yarn - Size 14 needles for knitting and Size N hook for crocheting. Not having the yarn and needles, all I can say about gauge is that you'll have to swatch. Crochet is said to take three times as much yarn as knitting, to cover the same area. Seed stitch will take up a little more than stockinette because of all the purling. Swatch with the yarn in the pattern you'll be using - a six inch square should be enough - mark the spot where you stopped knitting, and rip it out and measure the length of the yarn with a yardstick. Then multiply by the number of six-inch squares in the intended top panel, and that's how many yards of the light color you should plan to have. For the crocheted border, swatch again, or maybe you could just allow three times as much yarn as you would have used to do the border in seed stitch, plus some extra. It's best to swatch; so much depends on the pattern! I'm terrible at colors; I would use neutrals, maybe an off-white, cream, or eggshell shade of white for the center and a tan or even chocolate brown for the crocheted edging. My reasoning here is totally practical; edgings tend to get more wear and tear and pick up more dirt than the center, so a dark color will extend the time between washings. If you do go with a brighter color, use one she likes - there are lovely dark jewel-like shades of all colors: emerald green, amethyst purple, burgundy, garnet red, etc. I would definitely not use variegated yarn; it obscures the pattern. =Tamar |
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