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Furniture Feet – a free pattern.

Posted on February 3, 2012 by | 8 Comments

My Furniture Feet Pattern is moving up in the world. It was featured in the latest edition of Knit Magazine  along with my Helene Beret

It is also getting quite popular on ravelry. People from all over the world are knitting “socks” for their chairs and tables, in all kinds of feltable wool.

Here are three beautiful examples.

Sabine from München, Germany made these beautiful beaded green “socks” for her exquisite chair.

Helle from Aulum in Denmark, made all these pure white ones:

This fully kitted out dining room is all the way from Colorado. The talenter knitters ravelry name is

endofthepier.

I got this idea in July 2009, and I made a set right away. That set is still in use and none of my “socks” have got a hole yet. Plötulopi seems to be very well suited for this kind of projects, I have teenagers, so my furniture is not treated kindly…

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Finishing a Lopi Cardigan – the Front Bands

Posted on February 1, 2012 by | 3 Comments

 

Seed Stitch Front Bands

I say lopi cardigan, although this one isn’t in lopi. But it’s a lopi pattern and the closest thing to the “real deal”  possible for the intended wearer. The front bands are knit, in seed stitch and sewn to the body. There are nine sts in each band, six for the band it self and three to cover the steek on the reverse side.

They are sewn with Kitchener stitch (grafting). First you stitch into the band, just after the third sts, and then the same way on the body,

right beside the knit sts. When done on the front, you turn the work and hide the steekwith the three sts wide band, that is now on the wrong side, in the same way:

I like this method, it’s very neat, and not hard, although it’s a bit time consuming.

My Lopi Cardigan “Career”

Most lopi cardigans I have done, have crocheted button bands. These three are almost identical:

This one has not only crocheted button bands, but also homemade glitter buttons. It’s not steeked, it was worked flat:

This one has crocheted bands, and a zipper:

but this one has buttons (obviously)

So do these :

This one has knit bands and a zipper:

and this one has an inserted zipper and no front bands at all. Lopapeysa - Icelandic wool sweater

And finally, this one has wide ribbed front bands. This one was worked flat, on very fine needles:

 

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