Knot Knecessarily Known Knitting

In addition to being involved with both knitting guilds in Atlanta -- and occasionally one in Maryland -- I'm also a member of Textile Appreciation Society of Atlanta. If the guilds are the artists, then TASA members are the patrons. I love attending their quarterly events just to see what everyone is wearing! This quarter's event was an excursion to a pair of wonderful textile exhibits at The Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design Gallery at Georgia State University . Yes, this in downtown Atlanta. I took MARTA to the Five Points Station. If you exit towards Peachtree Street, just cross the street and walk a couple short blocks north towards Woodruff Park. Turn right and walk west a couple blocks on Edgewood Avenue. The gallery is on the corner of Peachtree Center Avenue SE and Gilmer Street SE. They both sort of intersect Edgewood Avenue at one of those strange multi-street intersections that seem to be too common in Atlanta. You'll notice the gallery off to the right...

One of my new library acquisitions this spring was Entrelac 2 by Rosemary Drysdale. Rosemary's previous entrelac book, Entrelac, the Essential Guide to Interlace Knitting , was published in 2010. In addition to having projects, the preceding book had a nice section of stitch pattern swatches. Entrelac 2 continues that exploration. While there are projects, there is also a large section of swatches of entrelac worked with different stitch patterns. So often we think of "plain" entrelac -- stockinette blocks with color changes to differentiate each course. Rosemary shows us that cables, lace, and texture can all combine with entrelac in ways worthy of the challenge. I was particularly smitten by the pentagonal entrelac on the cover of the book and its variations on pages 63 through 75. The "Five-Star Knit 2, Purl 2 Rib" on page 72 was intriguing. Because Rosemary uses normal joins, her blocks are 8 stitches wide. I used Jay Petersen's flat joins à la Ric...