Just as a refresher, here’s the original picture again:
A lot of people commented that it could be double knitting. I can see why – a lot of the pattern blocks have the colors reversed. But considering the time crunch of a knitter working for a television show, and considering how FREAKIN’ AWFUL double knitting is, I think it’s more a matter of… some pattern blocks having the colors reversed.
There is NO WAY I’d knit a six-foot scarf in double knitting, so it’s a moot point anyway.
I started out by spending hours with Excel’s “Fill Color” tool, to put together a pattern. This turned out to be three pages long. Then I copied and pasted it at the bottom, and reversed all the colors, and it was six pages long. Yikes!
After knitting, I had to go back and revise the spreadsheet several times. I’d finish a pattern block and decide that it just didn’t look quite right. I don’t half think that after I finally get the pattern the way I want it, I’ll have to rip back this entire tube of knitting and start over.
Egg-wise, I’ve gotten a 2nd and 3rd egg! They were all tiny – about 40 grams – a grocery store Jumbo egg is 65-70 grams. So cute!
So now your eggs are averaging about $265 each? That’s an improvement…
I agree with you on the double knitting thing. I tried it once on a small project and though it’s a cool technique, it’s so time consuming that it gets really frustrating really fast.
That’s why designing is so fun. Looks good!
Have you brought yourself to make a tiny cute omelet yet?
There is a website that you can look up knitting patterns for garments in movies and on t.v., I looked at it once, but have never used it.
Oh, I hope double knitting isn’t as confusing as all that. Lucy Neatby is coming to town to teach double knitting, it’s only one class, surely it can’t be that bad? (the colorwork one on the other hand is two classes, that intimidates me more!)
Oh, the mini-eggs are always so cute! There’s a good chance they’re double-yolkers, as well.
When we let a couple of our CornishX hens go over the winter, their first eggs were triple-yolkers. Now, *that* was a surprise!
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