Wingswing
Finished
January 3, 2012
January 10, 2012

Wingswing

Project info
Wingspan by maylin Tri'Coterie Designs
Knitting
Neck / TorsoShawl / Wrap
Needles & yarn
US 4 - 3.5 mm
Ferner Wolle Color Flow
1.1 skeins = 504.9 yards (461.7 meters), 110 grams
804
Die WollLust in 10961 Berlin, Berlin
Notes

Deutsch im Stricktagebuch vom 11. Jan. 2011. Die deutsche Anleitung bekommt man bei der Designerin selbst. In der Restend-Wingspan-Group gibt es dazu nähere Angaben.
The shape of Wingspan inspired me to an own interpretation of the theme.
To obtain shape and patterning you have to work shortrows within shortrows. One part of the shortrows forms the regular shape, the other builds the organically formed segments.
I used three colors of markers and in addition three row counting threads.
This is not a pattern but a technique. If you want to learn it go to Heidrun’s Ravelry Swing-Knitting-Site where you can buy tutorials to learn and exercise and watch her site for live courses. Or take live and online courses at www.strickrausch.de

There is a distinction between free short-row-knitting and “guided” short-row-knitting. The tutorials will at first teach you to knit “guided” short rows which have calculated stanzas to avoid frustrating beginners.

Free short-rowing as worked in Wingswing has its own rules. You don’t need a pattern because its on your own to create and calculate your project.
You cannot know how your project will look in row 68 i.e., but there are rules to know what to do in the special situation. A pattern for free short-rowing is theoretically possible but practically would have 100 or more pages, because every single row doesn’t look like the one before and every segment is different from each other. You won’t pay for it, I bet!
Advanced knitters of free swing-knitting techniques only need a few details to knit a similar project.

The different color fields are knit in a special algorithm. That means: the short rows are shortened in various intervals. Those intervals are combined in a numerical order. This order is determined by yourself before starting to knit and will never change until you finish your project. This will result in harmonic forms.
To change the order or the algorithm within the project is no swing-knitting but an own haphazard interpretation of short-row-knitting.

For knitting a project like this you should have advanced skills in shortrow-knitting as in free swing-knitting. It’s definitely not a beginner’s project.

Many thanks to the designer for this scarf, I hope for it to be chartbreaking!

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by Ferner Wolle
Light Fingering
75% Wool, 25% Nylon
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  • Project created: January 10, 2012
  • Finished: January 10, 2012
  • Updated: December 12, 2013