I’m starting to test knit the stash yarn from “The Jill Collection”1. I decided to try “Vertical Lace Trellis”. It’s a beautiful stitch pattern. Unfortunately, the slubs in the yarn detract from the lace pattern; you can see the trellis gets thinner and thicker as the yarn changes diameter. I don’t like that, so I’ll be using some other stitch pattern when I knit this particular yarn.
The swatch is still useful for illustrating the stitch pattern. Notice the strong vertical columns in this lace? They are vertical because the yo precedes the decrease in row 2 and follows it in row 4 in the directions provided below.
You can create a lace that leans to the right by repeating rows 1 & 2 only; create one that leans to the left by repeating rows 3 & 4 only. I can’t help thinking I could make a beautiful shawl by first knitting the left biasing stitch, then the non-biasing stitch, and following with the right biasing stitch. But, I don’t want a shawl right now, so it’s just a thought experiment.
Here are the directions for the non-biasing lace shown:
- Odd Number of Stitches
- Row 1 (Wrong Side) Purl.
- Row 2: K1,*y0, k2tog; repeat from *
- Row 3: Purl.
- Row 4: *SSK, yo; repeat from *; end k1.
- Repeat rows 1-4.
End notes and stuff.
1. This is yarn given to me by Jill, Mom’s terrific friend.
You can find other stitch pattern in stitch patterns.
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Dear Lucia,
I’ve taken a look into your site, and since English is not my native language, I would like to know what does SSK mean.
Thanks in advance
Milena
Comment by Milena (1 comments.) — 1/4/2006 @ 5:56 am
SSK means “Slip a stitch, Siip a stitch Knit both slipped stitches together”. You must slip both stitches inserting the needle as to knit.
It’s a decrease that leans the opposite way as a normal “knit 2 together” (k2tog).
To see more go to this page: http://www.thedietdiary.com/blog/lucia/440
Comment by lucia — 1/4/2006 @ 7:30 am
everytime i’m done with the 4th row and i’m ready to continue i always have ended up with an even number of sts. after the 4th row no matter how many times i’ve tried. why does this happen?
Comment by Leslie (0 comments.) — 9/12/2006 @ 7:16 pm