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Entrelac Enlightment— $1

I've been knitting the Shimada Toshiyuki gloves rather absent-mindedly, as it has been impossible to forget the cuffs of the gloves from the same book that I had started before I realized Saarte and Nanette were knitting the other pair.

If you look it up, you'll find that entrelac, also known as basketweave stitch, and several other names, too, starts with a row of base triangles that are then built up with left- and right-leaning oblongs. Well! That clears everything up, right? NOT.

The cuffs of the gloves on the cover of Scandinavian Accessories have points at the bottom! (ISBN: 4529041409, btw.) Go figure! Since I couldn't quit wondering about it and apparently can only learn with my fingers, I went to the source closest to my knitting chair, Spun Out #31 from Schoolhouse Press. I started EZ's Basket-Cap, and once I got going round and round with the oblongs, I couldn't stop, so it's probably going to be rather taller than her design.

Cool technique. Not difficult after all, but it sure makes you feel as if you are some kind of knitting genius when you see the results.

I did that? Ennnnntrelac!

Thanks to EZ, I now think I know how to do the cover gloves and am very eager to finish the red and gray pair so as to dive back into the yellow pair.

The Basket-Cap is all the knitting there is to show; last Friday I came home from work with some kind of evil flu-variant and was low until Monday. Sunday afternoon, I still had E. Zimmermann on my mind from working on the cap, and since it was handy, I watched the entire Knitting Glossary (4 hours!) from start to finish. The DVD is an excellent improvement over the videos, not least because there are so many new techniques demonstrated (purling back-backwards!!) and it is indexed. Cool. I highly recommend it, whether you have the flu or not ;-)

Sister and I are working on bold new blog ventures and we were saving pup photos for that, but Mike is too cute. We're helpless.

Entrelaccccc. Too. Cute.