I've blocked and steamed a few of the machine-knit worsted weight cotton strips I've been experimenting with. They are surprisingly soft and drapey once they have been finished and allowed to "rest" a few days. When I take them off the machine, the texture is rather scratchy and unappealing, and the stitches look too loose, but with time, they shrink a bit.
These pictures remind me why I kept buying these odd lots of cotton, even though I don't like to knit with cotton. The colors and textures entranced me every time.
In considering how to assemble strips, I got out my crochet hook and started brushing up on my limited skills. I was inspired by some of these Web pages on "scrumbling," a freeform crochet technique that sometimes incorporates knitting. I don't know whether I will incorporate crochet in this project, but it's fun to consider, and these fiber artists give helpful advice as well as beautiful finished projects.
- Knot Just Knitting--The Handcrafted Fibre Art of Prudence Mapstone. Pretty, functional Web design, too.
- What is Scrumbling? and Scrumbling Along from Sharon Boggon
- Confessions of a Reformed Pattern-Slave (Freeformer) Or, How I Threw Away My Knitting Patterns and Learned to Love Crochet by Claudia L. Dunitz
- Heal My Life--more from Claudia Dunitz on freeform fiber arts and many other topics.
- Marlo's Crochet Corner displays many of her finished projects and provides some advice.
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