2ktog

Yes, yes. I have a project or two that are done or in progress and I am not contributing pictures to the knitting blog. I am a bad, bad publicist. Maybe I'll do that later this post. Yes, that would draw your attention to it. Excellent.

So, my love is making a fancy entrelac scarf, using the pattern from Scarf Style. It looks like a whole lot of fun, and I thought I might make one too. Having a pattern where you watch the yarn do unexpected things would be a nice thing to have handy while I'm working on Via Diagonale, where if the yarn does something unexpected it is a harbinger of much frogging. Anyway, I really liked the look of the Multi-Directional Scarf, too, and what's more I am not so keen on having a right side and a wrong side.

So this is my plan: garter stitch entrelac. At first glance it hardly seems revolutionary, but I can't find anything online about how to go about doing it. (Can I just follow a stockinette set of instructions, and not purl so much?) So far I have found a Noro jacket that uses garter stitch entrelac (but I'm not about to get a jacket pattern just for making a scarf), and a couple of afgan patterns that seem to think that leaving the diamonds all jaggy along the edges is a design element. I mean, I can probably use one of those and sort out the triangle thing, but if any of you lot have a lead on some garter stitch entrelac instructions that I don't have to think about, I'd be a mighty pleased fellow.

All of this is to provide me with a distraction from this bag:

This is, of course Via Diagonale from knitty, and is simpler than it looks. Provided, of course, that you can reliably and repeatedly count to three, which I cannot. Thankfully, I've gotten to the point where I at least realize when I've repeated once too often before I reach the end of the round. It is also, of course, entirely inspired by Bestitched (who inspired Betsy to keep mentioning how nice the bag was until I started making her one).