Thursday, July 9, 2009

Have you seen this stitch?

My hair stylist recently brought in a sweater that her sister had knitted for her many moons ago. She's kept it a long time because she really likes the look of the stitches, which is just this pattern sparsely interspersed in a bed of stockinette. I also really like the pattern -- it would be a nice way to add interest to boring stockinette. I took a photo of it so that I could try to reverse engineer it later. Unfortunately, I did not take a photo of the wrong side, which might have been helpful.

Before I try to duplicate it, I figured I should just ask the vast blogosphere to see if anyone has seen it before or can easily figure out how to replicate it.

6 comments:

Mr Puffy's Knitting Blog: said...

Hum. Never seen anything quite like that. I once knit a tunic with interspersed texture throughout but as I recall it was something simple like a purl stitch every once in a while.

BTW, I do not know what's up with the internet. Did you know your feed is not working on Bloglines? It seems like lots of feeds aren't working properly these day....

robin said...

Is it this: http://knitting.about.com/od/stitchglossary/g/butterfly.htm? I think I saw this stitch before on a DIY knitting episode.

Ellen Bloom said...

Hi Betty,
I just saw a sweater recently on Ravelry with this stitch too! I found a different link than Robin:
http://www.knittingonthenet.com/patterns/clothbutterfly.htm

B. E. Busby said...

This popped up in my bloglines viewer, but I'm running the old one not the beta version

Virtuous said...

:o( No..wish I could help!

Knittymuggins said...

Hmmm.... never seen it before, though it looks kind of like a stitch I've seen before called the "Butterfly Stitch". Not the same, but same idea. Anyway, wish I could help! It does look cool though :)

knittymuggins