Knitting Links.

While my honeypot Vodka Lemonade is progressing nicely - I'm a bit below arm separation now, and it's mostly plain stockinette for the moment, nice, breezy, easygoing knitting - it really is too cumbersome to take along on a train trip now.

So I spent a little time on Ravelry in search of a nice portable project, preferrably some kind of scarf that would be reversible. (Speaking of reversible, here's a fun little article about how to make reversible cables. Which is sort of genius - I'll have to try this one day!) After a while of looking, I finally found a shawl pattern called "Arabian Nights"... something using two-colour brioche stitch, worked flat. Aaah. New things to figure out!

Brioche stitch, for those of you not clued into that yet, is a combination of slipped stitches and yarnovers. It makes a reversible, rib-like, cushy fabric. Worked in two colours, you get the one colour as knit-looking on one side and purl-looking on the other side... which is something I find very nice in general, and the Arabian Nights pattern looks mesmerizing to me with this effect. Here's a tutorial in case you are curious on how to knit brioche in two colours. The downside? Much as in illusion knitting, you need to work two rows to get one visible row, unless you do wild shenanigans.

Anyway, I'm now going to find out a bit more about this, and fiddle with it a little so I can have a project with me when I travel to Liège on Friday. One needs to fill one's work breaks somehow, right?