Yes. I know you are, how could you not be? Excited as I am, that is!
Because after years of wanting to have a go at it and not understanding the process or having a good pattern for it…I HAVE STARTED AN ENTRELAC KNITTED SCARF PROJECT.
I know, you can barely contain your excitement about it either.
Entrelac knitting looks like it has a woven basketweave kind of effect. It looks a lot more complicated than it is.
I’m using up some of the leftover neon DK yarn from my Fair Isle Knitted Bag. And I thought I’d just do a small pattern to have a go and see if it’s something I could make into a baby blanket for a friend.
So far, it looks pretty good. And the idea of picking up stitches and creating triangles and rectangle isn’t a difficult one in the slightest once you wrap your head around the method.
I will add here that the pattern calls for aran weight yarn and I’m trying it out in Double Knitting so mine will be smaller than the pattern and maybe a little odd looking, but it’s just a test to see how easy this technique is and most of all, how long each row takes me to do!
I like the finished look of the fabric and the bumpy/ textured sort of feel to it. And it could look really effective if you used the right colour combination.
There is only one thing putting me off and it is the fact that is the speed – it’s slow going!
I have to use a crochet hook to help me pick up stitches and it takes me forever (literally just minutes but you know…FOREVER!). And this is only with a pattern that had 3 base triangles.
I imagine that doing this pattern but with more repeats could take me AGES. Although I have time until my friend’s baby gets here, but still! I’m an impatient knitter and this has caused a debate in my mind.
Do I cast on a large project and use it as my on the go project because I like the finished look?
Or do I do another pattern that I could finish quicker?
So, I’m not sure what to do! I think I might have to cast on the full length of the blanket and see how long it takes me to do the few rows of the pattern. And go from there.
I bought a book a few days ago with a baby blanket pattern in which I might alter.
The scarf pattern that I’m trying at the moment was a free one from Ravelry which you can find the pattern for here:
https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/entrelac-scarf
So far, I’m finding the instructions for this pattern really easy to follow. I would definitely recommend it if you want to have a go at entrelac knitting.
Just ignore the terrible lighting…life is too short to spend hours on taking a picture!
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