I got bored with basic knooking pretty quickly. Then realized it is could be so much more than just another form of knitting....tried an internet search and search on Ravelry and only found a set of Japanese books with a few stitch ideas. Soooo.....here are some of the stitch patterns I came up with this morning.....
I did not block the finished product and hope blocking will help some of the wonkiness and poor tension...I never was very good at knitting; which may be part of the problem with the uneveness of design...I did the long chain one 3 times and finally got it tightened up a bit. Fellow crocheters, please note you may have to hold the stitches firmly in your left hand (if right handed) and give a bit of a tug to make sure stitches are nice and snug against previous stitch. Also, I used "kitchen" type cotton for the tail, I found the dragginess of it helped prevent the stitches from sliding down when held on the tail.
Here is my short chain row stitch: I used the size H knook and Loops and Threads Impeccable in Rose color
SHORT CHAIN ROW
Make a base chain of 21
Row 1: pull up loops for 21 loops on the hook
Row 2: Knook knit across the row
Row 3: Chain 3 into each knit stitch of row below. To do this, insert hook into stitch, yarn over and pull the yarn through just like for the knit stitch. Now do it 2 more times: you just chained 3.
Row 4: Knook knit stitch across
Row 5: repeat row 3
Row 6: repeat row 4
Just keep repeating rows 3 and 4 to desired length and then bind off, I bound off with a single crochet stitch: pull yarn through first stitch of row below and chain one, insert in next stitch pull yarn through and then yarn over and chain one, then yarn over and pull through both loops. Insert in next stitch, pull yarn through, yarn over and chain one, yarn over pull through both stitches on hook, etc.
LONG CHAIN ROW
Base row chain 16 (you need an even number of stitches for this pattern)
Row 1: pull up loops for 16 loops on hook
Row 2: 6 chain into each loop of row 1 (see previous pattern instructions for chaining into the loop)
Row 3: Insert hook into the 1st two loops of the stitches in previous row and pull through as for a knit stitch. Now Insert the hook into just the second stitch and pull through another loop. Think of it as crocheting or knitting 2 together and then going back and increasing in the same stitch. I know this sounds confusing. Perhaps someone who has experience writing insttructions who can figure out what I did can explain it better.
So just do this all the way across, insert hook into two stitches, yarn over and pull through a loop, then insert hook again into the second of those two stitches and pull up another loop. Do this all the way across and make sure you still have16 stitches before pulling out your tail.
Row 4: Do a Knook Knit stitch row
Row 5: repeat row 2
Row 6: repeat row 3
As above just keep repeating rows 3 and 4 to desired length and then bind off. I used the above SC bind off.
Here are some Knooked Lace Ideas:
The fabric is a bit too lose, I used size 3 Aunt Lydia's crochet cotton and the size g Knook. I'm pretty sure correct yarn to knook size as well as good blocking would make these look quite nice.
The top one is double crochet rows keeping the last loop of the double crochet on the hook throughout.
the bottome one is a crocheted (or shoud I say knooked) V stitch going through two stitches of row below and double crocheting into those two stitches twice. To double crochet with the knook you only draw the yarn through once and hold the last loop onthe hook. This is my understanding of one of the diagrams in one of the Japanese books. I then knit 3 rows in between v's.
Not sure I have any readers on this blog. If ya'll like my work I'll try to come up with more stitch designs to publish here....Please comment and let folks know about the blog and let me know how to make improvements!
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