{"id":950,"date":"2010-05-17T22:59:19","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T05:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ittakesballstoknit.com\/?p=950"},"modified":"2010-05-17T23:02:22","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T06:02:22","slug":"a-new-variation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ittakesballstoknit.com\/?p=950","title":{"rendered":"A new variation …"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post is coming a little late, but you know what they say – “Better late than never”! As it turns out I was on set today for a pilot being shot here in Vancouver. Apparently, the chances of it being picked up are pretty high. We’ll keep our fingers crossed. So today I was lucky enough to have a few hours to design a new variation on a 12-strand braid. You gotta love days like that. Unfortunately, I didn’t select a particularly good yarn for this kind of work. I didn’t like he way it felt for Celtic Knotwork. Oh well, I did manage to get a few rows designed and I quite like how it is coming out. At about the point where it s now, I decided to stop working with this particular and continue the rest by drawing. I am definitely going to redo it with a different yarn and complete the original idea I had. Here is the braid so far …<\/p>\n

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This picture shows you the braid about half way through the pattern I intend. The great thing about doing braid variations though is that you get ideas as you go along. In this case, I quite like it the way it is right now and could see using that particular pattern for an edging around a hat or even the bottom of a sweater or coat. It could be separated by a simple cable stitch and then repeated as many times as needed to go around the particular piece of knitting. I will have to go back to rows with it to work out the pattern so that all the strands terminate in a cable. Luckily, as you might be able to see, I was charting this as I went along, so I have the pattern to work with. Now that I’m home, I’ll chart it out on the computer as that is much simpler and a lot faster. I can also make adjustments as necessary and move things around to try new looks. All without even having to knit a stitch! I’ll try and do that and post the pictures soon. The pattern will be available sometime in the future as a part of a collection of motifs I’m working on with a friend. In the meantime though, if you have the ebook, you should try charting out a 10 or 12-strand braid, knitting it to get the idea of the flow of the strands, then modify it to suit your style. It needn’t be intricate, just a modification that you’re happy with. Here’s one that was sent to me by Barone. He took the Saxon braid and adjusted it slightly to give a different look.<\/p>\n

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By adding three cable twists, Barone was able to personalize this braid. You can too … it just takes balls!<\/p>\n

Hugzzz \ud83d\ude0e<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This post is coming a little late, but you know what they say – “Better late than never”! As it turns out I was on set today for a pilot being shot here in Vancouver. Apparently, the chances of it being picked up are pretty high. We’ll keep our fingers crossed. So today I was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,125,17,45],"tags":[255,1002,15,997,133,966,1001,253,959,969,252,257,254,73,963,256,976],"class_list":{"0":"post-950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-accomplishments","7":"category-barrington-braid","8":"category-cables","9":"category-patterns","10":"tag-12-strand","11":"tag-aran","12":"tag-balls","13":"tag-barrington-braid","14":"tag-braids","15":"tag-cables","16":"tag-celtic","17":"tag-celtic-knot","18":"tag-design","19":"tag-knitting","20":"tag-knotwork","21":"tag-modify","22":"tag-saxon","23":"tag-swatch","24":"tag-techniques","25":"tag-variations","26":"tag-wool","27":"pmpro-has-access","28":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pNDS0-fk","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ittakesballstoknit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ittakesballstoknit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ittakesballstoknit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ittakesballstoknit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ittakesballstoknit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=950"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ittakesballstoknit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":954,"href":"https:\/\/ittakesballstoknit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions\/954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ittakesballstoknit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ittakesballstoknit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ittakesballstoknit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}