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sevI'm designing a lace medallion with six-fold symmetry. According to "Mary Thomas's Book of Knitting Patterns", this means that I should be increasing once-per-section, every-other-round, for a total of six increases every two rounds.
If in each section I decrease once and then increase twice, every two rounds, is that going to interfere with the knitting's flatness? The total number of stitches increased over the two rounds is still 6.
this pattern would be repeated 6 times for a circle; I'd also want it to behave itself repeated 3 times for a half circle. Rows 1-22 are a more simple stockinette-based lace with regular every-other-round increases.
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If in each section I decrease once and then increase twice, every two rounds, is that going to interfere with the knitting's flatness? The total number of stitches increased over the two rounds is still 6.
this pattern would be repeated 6 times for a circle; I'd also want it to behave itself repeated 3 times for a half circle. Rows 1-22 are a more simple stockinette-based lace with regular every-other-round increases.
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on 2007-10-11 06:22 pm (UTC)I'm knitting a mostly stockinette shawl with YOs and K2togs, and the part where my increases and decreases don't match does appear to be non-flat. I expect the answer depends partly on how many different kinds of stitches you use, especially stretchy ones like YOs.