{"id":627,"date":"2009-05-11T12:30:59","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T11:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/?p=627"},"modified":"2009-04-22T22:11:17","modified_gmt":"2009-04-22T21:11:17","slug":"smocked-knitting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/11\/smocked-knitting\/","title":{"rendered":"Smocked knitting"},"content":{"rendered":"

The homework for the March City and Guilds class was on smocked knitting, something I had never tried before.<\/p>\n

My first sample involved knitting a sample of k1, p1 rib, and then working the smocking afterwards.<\/p>\n

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The next two samples came from patterns in Barbara Walker’s A Treasury of Knitting Patterns<\/a>\"\". With both of these the smocking is knitted in as you go along.<\/p>\n

This first pattern is just called smocking.<\/p>\n

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The second is called variation smocking. Unfortunately I chose a yarn which doesn’t show the pattern terrible well again \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

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These were fun to do but I’m not sure whether I would use them in future knitting projects. The variation smocking is more delicate, but the other two make really quite a firm and thick fabric which limits its uses. They might make good tea cosy fabric, since they would be very well insulating, and a bit of a change from other tea cosy patterns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The homework for the March City and Guilds class was on smocked knitting, something I had never tried before. My first sample involved knitting a sample of k1, p1 rib, and then working the smocking afterwards. The next two samples came from patterns in Barbara Walker’s A Treasury of Knitting Patterns. With both of these […]<\/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":[27,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-city-guilds","category-techniques"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Mzk-a7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627","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=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":631,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions\/631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}