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- From: jill@cray.com (Jill McAllister)
- Subject: plaited rib
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.145410.13985@hemlock.cray.com>
- Keywords: knitting, ribbing
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- Sender: Jill McAllister
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- Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
- Date: 22 Jan 93 14:54:10 CST
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- I am working on my knitted vest (discussed previously), and am still on the
- ribbing at the bottom. It is a kind of ribbing I'd never done (or even
- heard of) before. It's called plaited rib, and I was wondering if anyone
- else had ever done it. Instead of sticking your righthand needle through
- the front of the loop, you stick it through the back (pictures are the
- only real way to understand this), and then you wrap your yarn around
- the needle in the opposite direction from the way you usually do; and
- this is for both the knits and the purls. Then on the even-numbered
- rows, you knit and purl as you normally do. Well, round 1 (on circular
- needles) took me AN HOUR! I couldn't believe it! (I'm not a very fast
- knitter, so I'm sure a good knitter could do it in a lot less time.)
- So after I lay down on the couch to recover for awhile, I started the
- second round, figuring that would go like lightening. Not quite, since
- the way you do the odd-numbered rounds makes the loops pretty tight on
- the even-numbered rounds. The 3rd round (backwards knitting and purling
- again) took only about 40-45 minutes instead of an hour, so I'm hoping
- to see a speed-up throughout the ribbing. Why go through all this?
- Well, it makes a really cool-looking ribbing--in alternate rows, the
- loops are twisted to the left in one row and the right in the next.
- It really does look plaited! Has anyone else used this? What did
- you think of it? Do you think the finished product is worth all the
- extra work?
-
-
- Jill McAllister
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