Happy Monday my needleworkmonday people, today as every Monday we gather in this community to talk about our latest sewing and knitting projects and the things that inspire us to practice these crafts.
Feliz lunes mi gente de needleworkmonday, hoy como todos los lunes nos reunimos en esta comunidad para hablar sobre nuestros proyectos más recientes de costura y tejido y las cosas que nos inspiran a practicar estás manualidades.
This time I want to show you a project in progress, it is a woven blanket with some clouds formed along the fabric.
I saw this blanket a few months ago in social networks but it was one of those publications that we see and we lose sight of and then we can not get it and I loved it so much that I wanted to knit it, but not finding it again and much less get the pattern to follow it or try to follow it because I'm not an expert reading patterns, I was about to give up. However, I am a very visual person and I tried to practice on paper how to form the clouds by knitting in stockinette stitch and I watched some tutorials to learn how to intersperse yarns of different colors.
En esta oportunidad quiero mostrarles un proyecto en curso, se trata de una manta tejida con algunas nubes formadas a lo largo del tejido.
Está manta la vi hace unos meses en redes sociales pero fue una de esas publicaciones que vemos y se nos pierden de vista y ya luego no logramos conseguir y me encantó tanto que quise tejerla, pero al no encontrarla de nuevo y mucho menos conseguir el patrón para seguirlo o intentar seguirlo pues no soy experta leyendo patrones, estaba a punto de rendirme. Sin embargo soy una persona muy visual e intente hacer prácticas en un papel de qué manera podía lograr formar las nubes tejiendo a punto jersey y Vi algunos tutoriales para aprender a intercalar hilos de diferentes colores.
My first attempt to make the shape of the clouds was horrible, I couldn't understand if it was a cloud and much less the stitches I had to follow to form it so I discarded it. But after analyzing it for a while I understood the following: when we knit we follow straight lines back and forth, knitting is very numerical and structured, what would happen if I made grids on the sheet to simulate each stitch of the fabric?
So I took a sheet of paper and began to draw vertical and horizontal lines of similar size and to better guide me I listed the lines that were formed vertically and horizontally.
Mi primer intento de hacer la forma de las nubes fue horrible, no podía entender si era una nube y mucho menos los puntos que debía seguir para formarla así que la descarte. Pero luego de analizarlo un rato comprendí lo siguiente: cuando tejemos seguimos líneas rectas de ida y vuelta, el tejido es muy numérico y estructurado, que pasaría si hago cuadrículas en la hoja para simular cada punto del tejido?
Así que come una hoja y comencé a trazar líneas verticales y horizontales de similar tamaño y para guiarme mejor enumere las líneas que se formaron en vertical y en horizontal.
Once I had my squares made I started with a pencil to mark with the letter X the points that should be of a different color than the blanket to form the cloud, so that once I was sure I could mark it with a pen or a marker.
With a lot of dedication I was filling in the spaces and seeing if I had the cloud shape I wanted and hoping that besides looking good in the drawing it could be the same on the blanket, of the latter I was not very sure, because I had never made a knitting pattern that would involve such an irregular shape as a cloud.
Una vez que tenía mis cuadrados hechos comencé con un lápiz a ir marcando con la letra X los puntos que debían ser del color distinto al de la manta para formar la nube, para una vez estuviese segura pudiese remarcarlo con lapicero o un marcador.
Con mucha dedicación fui llenando los espacios y viendo si tenía la forma de nube que quería y esperando que además de salir bien en el dibujo pudiese quedar igual en la manta, de esto último no estaba muy segura, pues jamás había hecho un patrón de tejido que implicará una forma tan irregular como una nube.
Once I thought I had the cloud shape I wanted, I began to fill in the outline squares with another color, to see if the effect was really achieved, and I think it was.
To be able to differentiate it I made green X's to know that I should knit with white yarn and purple circles to know that I should knit with the blanket yarn.
Una vez que creía haber tenido la forma de nube que deseaba comencé a rellenar los cuadros del contorno con otro color, para ver si de verdad se lograba el efecto, y creo que así fue.
Para poderlo diferenciar hice X de color verde para saber que debía tejer con hilo blanco y círculos de color morado para saber que debía tejer con el hilo de la manta.
After I had everything nice in my drawing, it was time to test if my pattern worked or if I should let it go and try an easier fabric for a beginner like me. So with a lot of patience I started to follow the drawing little by little and changing colors when the pattern demanded it.
I must say that I was very excited to see the cloud start to form on the blanket and I probably shouted and jumped for joy.😂
Luego de tener todo lindo en mi dibujo, llegó la hora de la verdad, probar si mi patrón funcionaba o debía dejarlo ir e intentar un tejido más fácil para alguien principiante como yo. Así que con mucha paciencia comencé a seguir poco a poco el dibujo e intercalando de color cuando así me lo exigía el patrón.
Debo decir que fue enorme mi emoción al ver que en la manta se comenzaba a formar la nube y posiblemente haya gritado y brincado de alegría 😂
I hope you liked this little preview of my project, which I promise to show you and give you the step by step once it is ready. But also, I hope this post will help you to take a risk in this world of knitting and sewing that sometimes we think is more difficult than it really is.
Espero les haya gustado este pequeño adelanto de mi proyecto, el cual prometo mostrarles y darles el paso a paso una vez esté listo. Pero también, espero que les sirva este post para arriesgarse en este mundo del tejido y la costura que a veces pensamos que es más difícil de lo que realmente es.
Tell me, have you ever made a pattern before using squares as a guide?
Cuéntame, ya antes habías hecho un patrón usando cuadros como guía?
Thanks 🥰
Gracias 🥰
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Hola @soysofia, es un gusto saludarte nuevamente. También me ha tocado graficar patrones en hojas cuadriculadas, antes lo hacía para usarlos con la técnica de punto de cruz pero ahora lo uso más para trabajar la técnica de tapestry crochet; de hecho no tenía idea que se podía usar para tejer a dos agujas ya que lo mío es el crochet, nunca he podido dominar las dos agujas.
Tu proyecto está quedando hermoso, te felicito.
Gracias @kattycrochet que bueno que bordas, el bordado es tan bonito y veo que ahorita está poniéndose de moda 🤩 eso está en mis pendientes por aprender, me encantaría aprender a bordar, en especial nido de abeja, pero hasta los momentos no me he animado.
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None of that means anything to me (the pattern) but I absolutely LOVE that color and the cloud is so precious! I can't wait to see the finished product!
Thank You 🤩 i love the color to
Oh that is so beautiful and I like your colour choices. This techique is called intarsia, right? Could you show us the backside of the work, I’d be interested to see.
Thank you! I didn't know the technique had that name. The back doesn't keep the same shape but the crossing of the threads (not so pretty) 😞.
I was just interested to see how you wrap the yarn when changing colour but it sounds like it might not be intarsia if the bace colour yarn is running over the cloud in the back. But I actually like the reverse sides of colourwork knits,I think they are pretty :)
I promise show you soon
Hiciste una nube! Y que interesante éste tipo de tejido, se ve un poco difícil, claro yo aún no sé tejer así que desconozco éste arte.
Pero que hermoso resultado el de ésta técnica, me gusta mucho. Hermoso tu trabajo 🌹
Gracias! Aún no sabes tejer pero cuando empieces vas a aprender rapidísimo porque tienes mucho talento
Wow really lovely beautiful wow lovely thanks for sharing @soysofia
Thank You 🥰
Good for you for finding a way to understand the pattern better. I love seeing when a crafter doesn’t give up but keeps trying new ways to figure things out. We all cross bumps in our work sometimes but it’s so worth it in the end when we keep going.
I too really like that color and the cloud looks amazing. Looking forward to seeing the final results. I have followed a pattern with squares before a long time ago. It would take me awhile to figure it out again because it was not easy.
Keep up the great work ~ 😉
Thank You very much @crosheille It is wonderful when we discover that sometimes limitations are only in our mind, that has been my experience with knitting, I went from seeing it as something that was not for me and impossible to practice and today it is my best way to drain stress.
The color is beautiful I would like to knit a thousand things with it 😂😂.
You’re very welcome!
Yes!!! There are many situations where I have experienced this. It feels wonderful discovering we can do a lot more than we ever imagined! 😃
Hahaha I bet!! When we find a beautiful color in a beautiful yarn we just can’t stop working with it. 😅
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I really like how your cloud turned out. I looks very natural, which can be difficult especially with knitting. Bravo!
Thank You 🤩