{"id":2310,"date":"2012-12-20T13:00:56","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T13:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/?p=2310"},"modified":"2012-12-20T13:00:56","modified_gmt":"2012-12-20T13:00:56","slug":"knitting-interesting-shapes-with-alison-ellen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/20\/knitting-interesting-shapes-with-alison-ellen\/","title":{"rendered":"Knitting interesting shapes with Alison Ellen"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple of weeks ago I spent a lovely day at a workshop with Alison Ellen<\/a> organised by the New Ashgate Gallery<\/a> in Farnham.<\/p>\n

Our topic was knitting interesting shapes, and it was wonderful to spend a whole day playing around with increasing, decreasing and short rows to see what would happen.<\/p>\n

This shape was the first one I tried, and uses short rows to create a circle out of simple wedge shapes:<\/p>\n

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Then I tried another shape, using the same principles but adding casting on and decreases, Alison called this shape a star, mine has come out looking rather like a mutant starfish:<\/p>\n

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And lastly I had a go at creating a 3d shape using increasing and decreasing, and joining the sections as I went along:<\/p>\n

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This one reminds me of Snake’s Head Fritillary<\/a> flowers (although my terrible photograph makes this a little hard to see).<\/p>\n

A really enjoyable day, and I am looking forward to experimenting more with the techniques we were practising.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A couple of weeks ago I spent a lovely day at a workshop with Alison Ellen organised by the New Ashgate Gallery in Farnham. Our topic was knitting interesting shapes, and it was wonderful to spend a whole day playing around with increasing, decreasing and short rows to see what would happen. This shape was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration","category-workshops"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Mzk-Bg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2314,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310\/revisions\/2314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}