Red is an auspicious colour for Chinese new year and I started the first knitting project of the year with this 'watermelon' yarn.
It is a Bendigo Woollen Mills 2 ply pure wool. I dyed with with acid milling dye in a microwave but it seemed to have a higher than normal twist so it did not absorb the dye very well nor very evenly. It had been sitting in my stash for a couple of years now, waiting for the right project to come along.....
It is an interesting structure as the combination of plain and purl stitches, form the pleats naturally. The pattern is from the Vav magasinet (Scandinavian weaving magazine) issue 4/10. It is a simple pattern to memorise. It will probably take me a while to knit as there is 200g of yarn and I will probably knit it out as a scarf. I wonder how long that will be?
The article also mentioned a book on Gotland knitting - Pleats (Gotlandsk sticksom - Plissestickning) but it is only in Swedish. I wonder if it has lots of pictures or diagrams. If someone has this, please let me know if you can follow it without understanding Swedish!
This structure also reminds me of this miura cowl from Olga's blog and I think that they follow the same theory.
PS: Just realised that there is only 100g of yarn so it may become a cowl instead of a scarf!
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