Covering Your Tracks
Sunday October 14, 2007
Stockinette Stripes (c) Sarah White.I thought that the stripe of stockinette looked pretty cool in a sea of garter, and that it would be interesting to make that "mistake" a design feature by regularly (or even irregularly) putting in a few rows of stockinette stitch in the midst of a field of garter stitch.
I'm sure I'm not the only one whose made a mistake into a design element, and this "pattern" might even have a real name, but I like to think of it as covering your tracks stitch.
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It’s called “Wager Welt” in the old Mary Thomas knitting book.
Knit seven rows, then purl the eighth row. Repeat those eight rows, then finish with seven knit rows and bind off.
That singe purl row makes a flat space that looks wider because of the knit rows before and after.
I guess it got its name because you could “bet” against someone who didn’t know much about knitting on the number of purled rows. (Tee hee, I guess there must have been a lot of knitters’ bars once upon a time!)
See, I knew there had to be a name for it. (Though you could really throw in a purl row as often as you wanted.) Thanks, Lisa!