Knit Kimono Too: Simple Designs to Mix, Match, and Layer
Vicki Square
Language: English
Pages: 144
ISBN: 1596682396
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
From the bestselling author of Knit Kimono comes a brand new collection of kimono and Asian-inspired tops with simple shapes and unique details. In more than 20 new designs, Vicki Square has created a pattern collection of kimonos and other Asian-inspired tops, tunics, and vests, blending traditional inspiration with projects that contemporary knitters can't resist. You'll love the stunning look of each kimono design and relish in the easy-to-follow instructions for shaping and construction.
Knit Kimono Too focuses on lighter weight knits for layering, plus unique stitch patterns, colorwork, and openwork designs. Vicki also offers innovative shaping, interesting closures and edgings, and clever knitting techniques. Each project--from vests, coats, lightweight shells, and short-sleeve tops to a wide assortment of kimono jackets featuring various weights of yarn--is shown off in clear photography and step-by-step instructions. On the included instructional DVD, Vicki also demonstrates the special techniques and stitches that make these garments so elegantly wearable, including two-color slip stitch, surface embroidery, two-hand stranded colorwork, garter-stitch shortrows, attaching knitted cord, making origami folds, double knitting, and more.
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Unmatched depth of artistic character. For the royal court, silk in its various states of fineness was beautifully woven, either plain or in the richness of brocade. Silk was painted, dyed, embroidered, and in general manipulated with ever expanding achievements in technical skill. Kimono was distilled from its Chinese influence to a fully Japanese aesthetic in the Heian period of history (794–1185). For 300 years spanning the end of the first millennium, nature-inspired color themes were.
Yarn in front (wyf) from right back needle to left needle, bring yarn to back, k2tog, k18, ssk (last center back st with first st of left back). Set dpn aside. Working back and forth on cir needles, turn, k20, turn. [*Sl 1 pwise wyf from right back needle to left needle, bring yarn to back, change to A and k2tog, k18, ssk, turn, k20, turn; rep from * once. **Sl 1 pwise wyf from right back needle to left needle, bring yarn to back, change to D and k2tog, k18, ssk, turn, k20, turn; rep from **.
Armhole, matching straight edge of sleeve to straight edge of armhole and excluding the armhole BO. Working with the WS of the sleeve facing you and the garment body away from you, use the slip-st crochet method (see Glossary) to join sleeves to armholes. Lightly steam seam from WS to set sts. With RS facing and using the mattress st with 1-st seam allowance (see Glossary), sew 3½" (9 cm) of sleeve to armhole BO edge. Using the mattress st with ½-st seam allowance (see Glossary) and working from.
Glossary). Kumo Kanbun kosode was a kimono style of dramatic asymmetrical imagery that trailed in bold fashion from right shoulder to lower left hem. Genroku was a brief time in Japanese history (1688–1704) that represented the zenith of this visual drama. I have followed that aesthetic in this kimono with stylized cloud forms—a nature reference that spans the seasons—but I’ve taken artistic license by sweeping my diagonal in the other direction. The blue ribbon yarn I used for this.
Embroidery With a strand of CC 3 times the length of the garment body threaded on a tapestry needle and beg about ¾" (2 cm) below the shoulder seam and ending about ¾" (2 cm) above the bottom edge, work a diagonal and offset running stitch (see Glossary) 3 sts wide and 4 rows deep in the p5 rib sections as foll. Right Front Counting from right to left in each p5 section, bring needle from WS to RS in the 4th st, *bring needle diagonally down 4 rows and to the right 3 sts and insert the.