Date: 03 August 1998 From: bahrens@pacbell.net Subject: Becca's Whale Pillow by Gina B. Ahrens
Materials: 1-12 inch pillow form
1 skein each Lion brand Wool-Ease in Blue Heather,
Grape Heather and Dk Rose Heather
Gauge: 16 st x 24 r = 4 inches
Keyplate: Dot 3
Front: Starting with the blue yarn, e-wrap cast on 50 stitches.....
Hang hem.......Knit 16 rows......On the 17th row is when you want to
start your color work.......Using fairisle techniques, bring forward to
holding position the needles corresponding to the color chart that
will need the contrasting colors of yarn.....Make sure to start placement
of design from the center needles outward to each side.....Knit the row
with the blue.......Hand manipulate the needles in holding position
with the contrasting colors of yarn that correspond to the chart......
Purple for the whale, pink for his water spout.......You may need to
add extra small weights around the needles you place in holding
position to hold the knitting down and insure that you do not drop
any stitches.....Be sure to wrap yarn ends at beginning and end of each
color change in each row around at least one adjacent needle in order
to avoid holes......Continue this way until color chart is completed....
Knit 16 more rows and your row counter should read 72 rows........
Back stitch bind off and remove from machine..........
Back: E-wrap cast on 50 stitches in the blue....Hang hem........Knit 72 rows....
Back stitch bind off
Finish: Make a loopy trim with the left over yarns by using masking tape
stuck to a table( I would use painters tape or other low tack tape) and
sticking the yarns to it in a loopy zigzag fashion leaving about 1/2 to 1
inch hanging off onto one side........Use a sewing machine and a very
small stitch length to run a stitch holding it all together down the center
of the tape.....You may have to wipe down your needle every few stitches
because of adhesive build up........Use your sewing machine or by hand
sew the trim to the right side of the front of the pillow with the loops
facing in toward the center....Make sure you machine stitching on the trim
is inside your seam allowance........Sew the back to the front with right sides
together leaving an opening to put in the pillow form........Turn right sides
out........Insert form and hand stitch opening closed........Finished!
Chart for the Whale design:
Do not reproduce this pattern or post to any internet site without express permission from the author. Custom Charting: Make graph paper on your computer to match the gauge of the yarn that you want to use for your project......There are many simple graph paper programs that will do this for you pick your favorite....Take your graph paper to the local copy shop and have them copy it to a transparency for you.....Pick up some washable overhead projector markers on your way home......When you get home take a look at your transparency.... You will notice that you can feel the ink of the graph on one side and the other is smooth....This is important.......Take the art work that you wish to make a graph of and lay the transparency over it smooth side up....If you color on the side with the ink you will take off the graph when you wipe it clean..... Using you markers color in the squares to transfer your design to graph form...... Then make a color copy or scan it into you computer and print it.......Make sure to turn the work over and copy it so the design and any printing on it are backwards....Because of the way we knit on the Bond knitting machine (from the back), if you don't do this your finished project will have the design backwards........Once you have it copied or scanned you can wipe off the transparency to use again.......I used this method to take a drawing done by my daughter Rebecca, then 3 years old, of a whale and turn it into this pillow pattern.......
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