Viva Serac!

I just got the bright idea to search the Wayback Machine for an old pattern that had previously only been on my website and I found it!!! Reposting here so I can relink and reactivate the pattern on ravelry.

Also, I'm apparently ***really obsessed*** with sea green as both this blog and that are loaded with it. :) 
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New Pattern (Serac) + Knitalong

Posted on November 17, 2012 by bethanyh

Meet Serac! Wikipedia defines a serac thusly: “A serac (originally from Swiss French sérac) is a block or column of ice formed by intersecting crevasses on a glacier.” A photo from the Wikipedia page looked just like the stitch pattern I’m using, and happened to be from the Winthrop Glacier on Mount Rainier in my home state of Washington. :)

Serac is a simple triangle shawl that starts from the bottom point so you can stop any time. I might work the last section without increases so I can add buttons and make it into a cowl/dickie thing. There are only two pattern rows; what makes the pattern is the way they are repeated.

Meet Serac:

A pattern this simple just begs for a wholesome neutral-shade yarn like Mountain Meadow Wool Kaycee. It’s a slubby, sport-weight singles that knits up into a delectably elegant, supple fabric. Mountain Meadow Wool yarns are a 100% US product that look great in plain stockinette, textural patterns, lace, and cables. If I could describe them in one word, I think it would be “skooshhhhh” as that is how they feel when you squeeze them.

If you’d like to make a Serac shawl, see below for materials and instructions.

Mountain Meadow Wool Kaycee: 2 skeins for cowl version, 3 skeins for shawl version
3.75mm needles (US 5)

Begin Pattern:
Using longtail method, cast on 7 stitches

Set-up Row 1: knit
Set-up Row 2: k1, yo, (k1, p1)2 times, k1, yo, k1
Row A: k1, yo, knit yarn over from previous row through the back loop to twist closed, (p1,k1) to last 3 stitches, p1, knit yarn over from previous row through the back loop to twist closed, yo, k1.
Work row A again.
Row B: k1, yo, knit yarn over from previous row through the back loop to twist closed, knit to last 2 stitches, knit yarn over from previous row through the back loop to twist closed, yo, k1.
Work row B again.

Continue pattern by working Row A 3 times then Row B 2 times.

Cowl version: When you have desired width for cowl, omit increases and work in the established 5-row ribbing pattern for at least 12,” then bind off all stitches on the second row B. (I might do some needle size changes to taper the top of the cowl if I go this route.)

Shawl version: continue in established 5-row ribbing pattern until you have desired width for shawl, then bind off all stitches on the second row B.

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Now to figure out how to download the entire rest of my website prior to it being hacked/taken over by an Extremist group...

Looks can be deceiving!

I woke up with a fire under it today to work on a couple things I had thought of forever ago and promised myself I wouldn't rest until I'd worked on them. This one is the first:

Looks like Tunisian crochet, right? But it's not! I'm working on some color combos and swatches and then will type up a pattern for test *knitting.* I'm really excited about this design!!! Hoping others will like the invention (extensive googling and ravelry searches turned up nothing so it looks like I might be the first person to think this up / execute it?) and get excited about it, too!

I'm also working on converting a lot of my knitted patterns to crochet (!!!) and designing more crochet (and knit) patterns as well. I'm bistitchual so feel my patterns should reflect that better. My goal for this year is 12 new patterns. I've already put 4 out in the universe so am thinking that momentum might just make this my most prolific year yet!

I AM VERY BORED AND TIRED OF BEING HOME ALONE ALL DAY, to say the least, but I guess I am getting a LOT of crafting done. Cannot wait to go back to work, that is for sure!!!

My throw blanket is about 2 feet long now, and over a foot of that was from one day's crocheting. Yowza! Sadly, I'm almost out of Golden Girls reruns. Guess I'll have to find something new to watch / knit / crochet to while I'm waiting to go back to work.

Spinning plates—in perpetuity, it would seem

Of course I need more projects, so I decided to start an all-in-one-piece blanket to add to the cabin-fever frazzle because I am very smart.

I know it's laying there in a rumpled heap and may not make a lot of sense right now, so allow one of the cats to demonstrate how to use it:

He is so helpful—thank you, Scotty! (◕‿◕✿)

If you'd like to make your own version of this the pattern is on the project page in my Ravelry notebook. The design is intentionally very simple to make it quick to work and create more opportunities for modification. Some ideas for different variations:

• vertically-striped lap blanket (4’ / 1.2 m in length)
• horizontally-striped throw blanket (4’ / 1.2 m in width)
• enlarge the blanket by increasing the foundation row
• stashbust with many-colored solid stripes (hold fingering or sport yarns double to meet gauge)
• work in two colors
• marl colors together à la Sophie Digard
• hand-dyed yarn fade-ient
• thicker stripes
• thinner stripes
• work all the eyelet rows in one color

If you'd rather work this as a smaller lap blanket you can bust a lot of stash and give the blankets as gifts to folks you don't get to spend time with while self-isolating. Another option is to make this as a scarf, or a stole, or...the sky's the limit!