Dawn Brocco's Life & Design Blog

Today is pumpkin-knitting day - oops - I let the cat out! That's the theme of the next baby blanket design. Should have been done already, but you know life, it does insist at times.

Today is also finish drying the handwashed woolies on the rack in the dryer - 'cause they'll never dry outside in this nippy weather.

Today also means a quick tidying up, for that, still tentative, showing tomorrow morning.

But mostly knitting, and thank goodness. DAYS can go by without my getting to knit on a design or work on a pattern.

For giggles last night, I thought I'd give the Norwegian Purl (NP) a try out, just to see if it could be useful in any knitting circumstance.

So, I followed the photos shown here.

But because I knit UCV (one of these days, I'll get a small quicktime video made showing this, but don't hold your breath, I'm afraid it's way low on my priority list), purling is just as easy as knitting and if I'm gonna flick the yarn to the front anyway to do the NP, I'll just do a regular purl.

So I did the NP differently. I did it the way it makes the most sense for me and uses the smoothest movements and I ended up with a twisted purl - hmm. Yes, might be useful. Twisted rib with both twisted knit and twisted purl sts, all worked with the yarn and the ndls held in back!

If anyone wants a text description, I'll write it out.

Public thanks to Barbara, who posted some of my fulling info and links on her blog - thank you!

Onward!