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LNYE Craft treat: four knit bending emblem squares/hot pads, for zephre
Title: four knit bending emblem squares/hot pads
By:eruthros
Recipient: zephre
Rating: SFW
Character(s)/Ship(s): none
Content Notes: no standard notes apply
FINISHED SIZE:
4 pieces, each approximately 6" x 6"
MATERIALS:
Cascade 220 Superwash Sport yarn in five colors: 2 50 g skeins of 817 (contrast color), 1 skein each of 1910 (air), 813 (water), 855 (fire), and 801 (earth). I used less than half a skein (about 20 g/50 m) of each color for each piece.
4.0 mm/US size 6 knitting needles, or size appropriate to your yarn.
GAUGE:
28 st/36 rows = 4 inches in stockinette stitch.
PATTERN NOTES:
Gauge isn't important. If you'd like to make a smaller piece with all four bending emblems, or four smaller pieces for coasters or something, you'd have to choose a lighter-weight yarn or felt the piece to a smaller size; worsted-weight yarn would make larger (and thicker) pieces.
I double-knit the chart to make reversible flat pieces, but you could also purl the colored stitches to make a single-color raised pattern, or do fair isle if you're good at carrying yarn across a lot of single-color space. If you've never double-knit, Stitch Diva has answers to some frequently asked questions including suggested cast-ons, and knitting help has a video introduction to reversible double-knitting that's mostly about how to hold the yarn. It's a lot easier than they make it look. (Double knitting without colorwork, and with a different cast-on, can also be used to make two identical pieces at the same time; that's a slightly different technique.)
If you want to make hot pads, you may want to do a single crochet loop on the corner to hang them by; I didn't do that so thatzephre could do whatever ze wanted with them.
PATTERN:
To make a single bending emblem, cast on 42 stitches with both colors held together and follow the appropriate portion of the chart.
To make the complete chart, cast on 82 stitches with both colors held together and follow the appropriate portion of the chart.
To knit flat colorwork, work from the bottom of the chart to the top, following odd rows right to left in the right color, and even rows left to right in the opposite color. The chart image looks squashed because knit stitches are wider than they are tall but I used a square grid; the finished pieces are square. The easiest charts are Earthbending and Airbending; Waterbending and Firebending require more counting.
CHART:
(link to a larger version of the chart)
These pictures are pre-blocking, so the squares are a little skewed. The shots show the front side, the mirror reverse side, and a closeup of the firebending pattern and square (since that's the last one I did).
By:
eruthrosRecipient: zephre
Rating: SFW
Character(s)/Ship(s): none
Content Notes: no standard notes apply
FINISHED SIZE:
4 pieces, each approximately 6" x 6"
MATERIALS:
Cascade 220 Superwash Sport yarn in five colors: 2 50 g skeins of 817 (contrast color), 1 skein each of 1910 (air), 813 (water), 855 (fire), and 801 (earth). I used less than half a skein (about 20 g/50 m) of each color for each piece.
4.0 mm/US size 6 knitting needles, or size appropriate to your yarn.
GAUGE:
28 st/36 rows = 4 inches in stockinette stitch.
PATTERN NOTES:
Gauge isn't important. If you'd like to make a smaller piece with all four bending emblems, or four smaller pieces for coasters or something, you'd have to choose a lighter-weight yarn or felt the piece to a smaller size; worsted-weight yarn would make larger (and thicker) pieces.
I double-knit the chart to make reversible flat pieces, but you could also purl the colored stitches to make a single-color raised pattern, or do fair isle if you're good at carrying yarn across a lot of single-color space. If you've never double-knit, Stitch Diva has answers to some frequently asked questions including suggested cast-ons, and knitting help has a video introduction to reversible double-knitting that's mostly about how to hold the yarn. It's a lot easier than they make it look. (Double knitting without colorwork, and with a different cast-on, can also be used to make two identical pieces at the same time; that's a slightly different technique.)
If you want to make hot pads, you may want to do a single crochet loop on the corner to hang them by; I didn't do that so that
zephre could do whatever ze wanted with them.PATTERN:
To make a single bending emblem, cast on 42 stitches with both colors held together and follow the appropriate portion of the chart.
To make the complete chart, cast on 82 stitches with both colors held together and follow the appropriate portion of the chart.
To knit flat colorwork, work from the bottom of the chart to the top, following odd rows right to left in the right color, and even rows left to right in the opposite color. The chart image looks squashed because knit stitches are wider than they are tall but I used a square grid; the finished pieces are square. The easiest charts are Earthbending and Airbending; Waterbending and Firebending require more counting.
CHART:
(link to a larger version of the chart)
These pictures are pre-blocking, so the squares are a little skewed. The shots show the front side, the mirror reverse side, and a closeup of the firebending pattern and square (since that's the last one I did).
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