LK_102_Asymmetric_Cardigan. Dg208. Knitting Letters : A to Z: February 2008. For a long time, this was the Endless Fair Isle sweater, but I’m very pleased to say that it is now the sweater that has reached an end...without ends. I bought the yarn (Rowan Donegal tweed 2-ply, sadly no longer manufactured) in at least four different stores in England and the U.S., and began work on it in August of 1997. A month later, I brought the project with me on a cross-country trip to meet my boyfriend’s family in Oregon. They surely wondered then why anyone in their right mind would even contemplate such a clearly fruitless project. And they may have continued to wonder why I kept bringing the same project along on my visits over the years, as it never seemed to progress much. Yes, the boyfriend and I married, and the people I met then are beloved family members now.
This project has moved with me three times and has traveled almost as much as I have over the past ten and a half years, often lying neglected in my carry-on during long plane rides. It was motivation. [vidéo] Les côtes cartouchières, une variante des fausses côtes anglaises. Vous connaissez le point de fausses côtes anglaises? Voici sa version améliorée: les côtes cartouchières. Esthétiquement parlant, la différence repose sur l’aspect des colonnes de mailles endroits. Ce sont des mailles allongées, construites sur deux rangs au lieu d’un, ce qui donne un rendu plus net et plus régulier que pour les fausses côtes anglaises.
À part ça, on retrouve les qualités des fausses côtes anglaises: l’élasticité, l’épaisseur, le moelleux, ainsi qu’une parfaite réversibilité. Réalisé sur un nombre de mailles multiples de 4, plus 3, il repose sur la répétition de 2 rangs. Le plus simple est de regarder cette courte vidéo: Et si on se faisait une bonne grosse écharpe?