ConnieLene – KnitDesigner

Just a little.

My knitting was not actually intended to be such a close rendition of a wing shape. I am working on a scarf or shawl depending on my mood and my ability to count and then to knit what could be 610+ stitches with umpteen short rows.

Fibonacci is such a surprising sequence, this knitting does have short rows of 2 stitches – not the Fibonacci Sequence at all, but all the increases follow the Fibonacci Sequence.

I hope someone out there has other ideas for knitting with the Fibonacci Sequence for shaping – and they will let me know the secrets – soon before my brain shuts down.

Please please

still needs Crochet and Beads to finish the piece

What on earth can one do when a thought process will not disappear into the ether and let one rest. Right now I am knitting the Fibonacci Sequence again and again.

Why?

Well, I first knitted the sequence back in June 2011 in the Netherlands, not long before we started our journey back to New Zealand. In the past 12 months it has crept into my consciousness a number of times and I have allowed it to waffle away and managed to ignore it and it has gone away again. But recently it came back and in a moment of weakness I decided to work on it again. Now this is not a sequence of colours, or stitch patterns in the sequence, but a piece knitted using the sequence for increases. What I am doing is knitting starting with 1 stitch and increasing on each other row the next number as per the Fibonacci Sequence, which means that one gets to a huge number of stitches rather quickly and the result doesn’t make any sense to me.

I want to see a flat knitted piece displaying “The Golden Mean”, but it doesn’t do that. Now when you look at the figures it is really obvious why – I mean you start with 1 and on row 37 if you follow the sequence as an increase in the number of stitches, you would have 10,946 stitches on your needles and lots of waves and spirals and floating seaweed type knitted fabric when you cast off.

Why on earth would you do that? My first Fibonacci sequence went to 2,584 stitches (I think) and that was an inelegant sufficiency of stitches. Would you do that? Well, I won’t again, but the sequence won’t shut up.

I am on my 4th sequence now.

Sequence 1 – increase the numbers over the left hand side of the stitches (twice now), knitted in garter stitch.
Sequence 2 – increase the stitches over the centre group of stitches (didn’t like the result), knitted in garter stitch.
Sequence 3 – increase the stitches as per sequence 1, with short rows between the increase row and the full return row. Knitted in Stocking stitch.
Sequence 4 – I haven’t decided how yet – I have decided on the yarn (the ball has no band so I cannot tell you what it is) It will probably be knitted on size 4.5mm circular needles, although that could change once I settle down to it.

How will I apply the sequence?

I haven’t a clue!

Help!

Please don’t ask why I am bothering – it is simply cause the numbers will not go away – so my hope is that if I explore it, the Fibonacci Sequence that is – it will go away. If you know how to knit this as a lovely flat but curly piece that presents “The Golden Mean” – please tell me so sequence 4 is the last one I will ever need to do.

Maybe it should be Entrelac, maybe endless short rows, maybe I should be writing my pattern for the sleeveless jacket that many have asked for. Maybe that project will make Fibonacci go away.

Maybe