There are so many facets to belonging to a Knitting Guild! One of our members brought a square she had knit in a log cabin design – it was exquisite! She said she got the pattern from Lily Chin’s The Urban Knitter. I had perused the book but did not remember seeing anything this stunning. No wonder! When I checked into the book again the photo for the Log Cabin Baby Blanket did No Justice to the finished product! How glad I am to be alerted to this potential and have perhaps found a use for a basket of balls of Robin wool in heather hues: I’ve now done a few ‘logs’ changing colour with each rotation and am using stockingette stitch – a sweater is in mind but will see what the needles and wool decide. And a major ‘tool’ gained is the slip stitch at beginning of each row to give the ‘chain’ on all edges which allows for easy pickup as the logs build. I’d experimented with the idea of building on knitting by rotating in the past and still have the annoyingly bunchy results on stitch holders; would come across them every so often and love the effect but sigh over the ‘bunching’, having no idea how to adjust this. Now I know!
So I am grateful for the show and tell and networking that take place in Knitting groups, the ability of people to see the scope of a project in spite of a dull photo. Another member can ‘see’ cables from a pattern and interpret same.