This is very familiar to me based on double moss stitch, BUT listening to your explain the expanded extrapolation gave me a wonderful idea. We can create our own sequences based on DATES, birthdays, memorial days, special event days, etc. This would make a unique gift. A shawl made of a sequence created from a date associated with a passed over relative might feel like a special hug. A shawl created from a wedding date might be a comfortable affirmation of love. A graduation date shawl could be a nice send off gift for a student going off to college. Sounds like a party to me! Thank you. 🎉
Oh I really like this idea. Not just for special dates, but the symbolism of numbers. (Among other things, I make symbolic jewellery, which includes symbolism based on numbers and colours).
I started off scoffing because "it's just the stitch patterns everybody has books full of"... until you explained how she took them a step further. Wow, my mind is spinning!!
This is very similar to minimalistic music, for instance, Phillip Glass and Steve Reich. You have a sequence of tones… a formula… and through extended repetition over a a determined time signature, layers of melodies and harmonies are produced, which sound very complicated and seem to have an element of chance, which somehow is also true! You decide the sequence, you decide the rhythmical structure, (very disciplined) and then voila! Hold on! What emerges are beautiful, sometimes wild textures of sounds. This type of music can be very meditative and beautiful, but it can also „break your brain.“. You can start with a single melody or chords, you can do a „one row repeat, serpentine or spiral.“. Then you can also flip it. Keep the same sequence but change the time signature or stitch count! Then it becomes something ENTIRELY different. Kind of cosmic! Fantastic! You explain everything so clearly and I get why you are so excited by this technique. Knitting is slowed down music! Thanks!
INCREDIBLE! Thanks so much for sharing this. I wasn't aware there was an equivalent concept in music. I think I'm going to start humming musical sequences as I knit now 😍🤩😍
I think i did a sequence knit project without realizing it by accident. I started a wash cloth with my favorite pattern, k 4 p 4, for 5 rows then reverse for a basket weave effect. I must have been interrupted casting on and added 2 extra stitches. After a few rows I noticed it wasn't right, but i liked the effect. I ended up making what I called "a self folding wash cloth". I had long columns of k2 garter2 p2 garter2. It just curled up on itself accordion stlye.I made a bunch and a lot of my Xmas knitting was done that year.
Didn’t know that there was a name for this style of knitting. I purchased a book years ago which I used to create patterns when knitting blankets. The book is called “365 Knitting Stitches a Year” (I just noticed it doesn’t have a printed date on it). Thanks for reminding me! I think I will use the book again in the near future. Thank you!❤
I bought that MDK field guide just to make the Parallelogram Scarf because I thought it was so beautiful and that's how I found out about sequence knitting! (The increases and decreases also add another dimension to the technique, as on your Marlogram and my Parallelogram.) Now I have her big book home from the library...don't drop it on your toe! Thanks for the great sum-up of the technique and concept. It will really help me explain it to my knitting group where I've been getting all sorts of questions.
My favorite thing to knit is scarves using sequence knitting. I love it for watching TV, sitting in meetings, talking with friends. So wonderful for the "hands busy" kind of knitting that doesn't take much attention.
This makes so much sense to me! I had wondered (as a newer knitter) what would happen if I knitted that way but I had no idea it was really a thing. Just ordered the big book and excited to start a new project. Thank you for this video!!!
Mind blown!!! I love sequencing. I made the Dashael last winter and didn't realize it was sequencing!!! I need those books. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge, as I know very little of knitting and trying to know more each day. Take care and cheers!
Another great podcast Nicole. Thanks for all the work that goes into producing such informative videos. I've used Stephanie"s scarf sequence for years with new knitters that want to make a scarf; with pretty wool it's a winner.
I went to the MDK website, and signed up for the virtual Summercamp! I’m going to learn basket weaving! thanks for this video, and a new resource (MDK)!
me as a mostly crocheter( soon start to knit) its no surprise for me we literally work in such sequences in crochet as well just changing of the rythm of the basic stitches and repeat that BOOM awesome detailedpatterns ppl envy u over
What a great video! Thanks so much for sharing all of this information. I definitely want to try sequence knitting and the Crave yarns. I really appreciate podcasters such as yourself for being so enthusiastic and sharing so much wonderful knitting information. Happy (sequence) Knitting!!
I do love texture!!! I have to check this out too. I think Fruity Knitting had an interview with her on one of their podcasts a few years ago. I will go look for that! Thanks a bunch!
My brain is partying big time! I mostly knit socks while watching movies; this method will make it easy to be on autopilot AND still obtain a wonderful design. Why have not learned about this already? LOL.
Thanks Nicole. Very interesting. I bought a sequence pattern a long time ago and thought hey that was so easy. Why didn't I think to do that. Of course I didn't. ❤
I’m really liking this‼️‼️. Gonna do large squares of sequence knitting with a tote full of 1&2 skeins of yarn leftovers. I’ll cobble the squares together and make a knitted blanket.🧶
So, I was looking for my high school diploma and guess what I found, “ sequence knitting” by Cecelia Campochiaro. I had forgotten that I owned this book. I didn’t even remember when you showed the book. I am very silly.
The stitch type can absolutely change the width. On the Corrugated Wrap, there was no compensation for width. The sides just organically bowed in and out with the stitch changes. If you were intent on keeping the edges straight while doing a variety of sequences, you would need to increase the stitch count before some sections. There’s no perfect formula for this, as different needles, yarn, and tension would affect the amount of shrinkage. Some preparatory swatching would be advised 😊
Aside from Stephanie Pearl-McPhee's One Row Handspun scarf and the patterns in the resources I mentioned in the video, I'm not aware of other patterns that have specifically employed this technique. As more folks become aware of it, there may be more patterns coming soon! 😊
You had way more fun recording this than I had watching… to me this is not a knitting technique, but rather a technique for pattern designing , just putting a name on something that must have been done for many years ,
Hello, thanks to tell about sequence knitting 🎇 seems fascinated! Could not buy this book sequence.5 or the other in e.book form,and MDK seems to have lost track... Do you have any idea where where I could look? Thanks anyway 😅🎉
Sorry you're having trouble finding it! Try cutting and pasting this into your browser: MDK Field Guide No. 5: Sequences Make sure you go to the MDK website, if you want the e-book version. I think they are the only ones who sell it. 😊
I have a question as a very new knitter (long time crocheter). I am only on my third full project, which is a blanket I decided to try and I decided to make my own pattern which is a knit 2 purl 2 potential sequence, maybe? What I did was do one full row, k2p2 all the way across, then I purled on the back side then on the next row I started the same pattern but one stitch over each front side row. It has made a very beautiful spiraling effect on the front and even the back has a rippled texture that looks all purled even though it isn’t on alternating rows. Now is this considered sequence knitting even though I only did the sequence on the front side rows? Or is it just a simple pattern….for how basic it is, it has turned out gorgeous. I hope I explained it well enough I wish I could add pictures….i guess it really doesn’t matter if it is or not. I just found it interesting that my first attempt at making my own pattern (I am sure it has been done, but I have not seen it) has turned out so well. I have always followed patterns crocheting and knitting before this blanket.
You explained it just fine - I can visualize what you’re doing 😊 It sounds like you’re doing sequence knitting, broken up by a non-sequence row. Sounds super cool to me! Maybe you’ve invented something 😁
Thanks so much! I love your videos I forgot to say before sorry! I also happen to have autism and I am so intrigued by this style of knitting and am so glad you made this video. I tend to have a very logical brain that loves to do creative things and i think it makes sense that this resonated so much for me. I am also excited about the possibilities. I enjoy doing things a little different than the norm and when I wanted to make a knitted blanket, since that is what I am used to crocheting, I really couldn’t find what I was looking for pattern wise which lead to me trying my own thing. Luckily it has been very successful and enjoyable and I appreciate the encouragement! I considered putting the pattern on ravelry since I believe it is nice for beginners and could be used to make a number of things. Thanks again 😊
Understood everything .....except why the deep angles on both ends of the two colorful scarves? I pictured the knitting resulting in a strict rectangular shape.
The design is set on the bias. There's an increase at one end and a decrease at the other. It wouldn't have to be this way - it's just and added design element. 😊
Isn't that just knitting a texture? I make these up all the time to add interest to socks. Maybe because I came from a crochet background Im not afraid of making things up to see what happens. This is what Id expect to see in a stitch dictionary. Am I missing something???
In some ways it's not different from other stitch patterns , but mostly the difference lies in the fact that most pattern repeats require you to do something different on alternate rows. With sequence knitting, you just keep repeating the same stitch sequence over and over again on every row, no matter what. The vast majority of pattern repeats are not like this. I hope this helps clarify the concept for you 😊
Okay, this presenter went on for so long with cutesy terminology while deliberately delaying getting to the point that I got annoyed and went to find my copy of Sequence Knitting, available from the internet archive and other quality online libraries which managed to say what it was in a lot less time. RU-vidr is still talking and still not saying what it is, but Cecilia just described it at the start of the intro. Okay, so it's just doing the same binary combo of "knit x times, purl y times" over and over and not changing when you get to a new row. Cool. Very algorithmic, and very basic, except that knitting was invented when we were far more structured, economical and, well, tribal in identity of the pattern about the final product, you didn't just improvise or make a mess to see what happens except to innovate to impose more structure for the future. So now this is just playing as if knitting has just been invented but yarn is cheap and our time more for play, just to do a bunch of "this then that" over and over, to see what comes out the other end. So "unvented" is a fair description and not cutesy. My brain is not "broken" lol, but fair go if it is for you!
You mention merino. It's worth remembering the immense cruelty with which Australian merino is produced... (only Australian...) Please check where your merino originated.
Very good way of excercising your brain and preventing Alzheimer disease! She just said that you have to keep to the sequence - I can see that you can easily get in a muddle if you don’t concentrate! Definitely going to try it! 😅
Great video but Im still mad. How did I not know that "tink" was knit backwards? I mean, I knew what it meant & have even been told its "knit backwards and silently thought, no, its undoing stitches." LOLOL
It's one of the things I love about knitting. The math that goes with knitting makes my logical side happy. The sequence and texture that come from the knitting makes my creative side happy.
Sorry, but to me this ‘sequence’ knitting, is just following a knitting pattern. Anyone else not understand? I have been knitting for 50 years and this is just knitting following a pattern repeat.
In some ways it's not different from other stitch patterns , but mostly the difference lies in the fact that most pattern repeats require you to do something different on alternate rows. With sequence knitting, you just keep repeating the same stitch sequence over and over again on every row, no matter what. The vast majority of pattern repeats are not like this. I hope this helps clarify the concept for you 😊
Idk, for me it was a freeing lesson. So many patterns either make the instructions complicated or they charge $$ for a simple pattern repeat. I’ve only been knitting for 2 years so I found this info extremely helpful. I feel like I could learn how to make my own designs easier with this method. 😊
Like you I find the concept totally fascinating! I have both of Cecelia’s books….it is pure inspiration for relaxed knitting once you understand how it all works. As with anything, it is ‘each to their own’. What a designer does is work with the concept to create a project for the customer to make … be it simple or complicated he/she has spent time listing the needles/yarn/working out sizes etc etc … I am a designer and it is difficult trying to write the ‘perfect’ pattern for the customer … this takes the time … this is why there is a fee … the designer can then hope to pay her way in life…I buy other designers patterns because it’s all worked out for me and I can relax after all the maths required for my own patterns … we do have choice … I wish I had written these books … they will go down in the annals of time just like EZ as a reference and a stunningly aesthetic book … Veronica❤
@@veronicashaw-s2m I didn’t mean to sound like I don’t want to pay for a pattern. I completely understand there is a small charge. But some are charging more than a basic pattern is worth. (Thankfully there are sales!) Videos like these help newer knitters like myself learn to make our own patterns. It’s like a building block.
@@WhittleKnitLane oh, I wasn’t thinking that when I wrote, I was just reiterating my love for the books in question and as a designer I know I couldn’t have got my head around all the maths involved - I would not find that easy at all - yes, some patterns are expensive but it does make you think, look and really read the general blurb and judge if a pattern is right for you especially when you are a beginner - it is a minefield of choice - my best wishes for a lovely and rewarding knitting journey Veronica ☺️
Ooooh. My math brain really like this, brain party for sure!!! Kind of understood the concept from the no-heel / spiral socks (yet to knit, but I want to). Hmmm…. 10-stitch blanket, with sequences??
Wow! Mind blown, not broken, and totally partying!! 🎉🥳 Your excitement is contagious! I’ve been waiting for inspiration for cardigans stitches that would have texture without being cables (too “Mister Rogers”) or too plain. I just love this!! Now to figure out which one(s) to choose, and how I will work out the upper section with increases (I’ll knit them top down). I’m new here, this is only your 2nd video I’ve seen, but definitely subscribing now. Thanks!! P.S.: love your wrap 💕
Math brain be like 'hey, no worries, makes perfect sense to me'. Masterwork book is next on the list, though my math brain sort of cringes at the mixed color yarn pieces, but loves the texture on the single color yarns. Thanks for sharing! ❤
Just encountered this video and I love this idea. On the swatch where you changed color, the vertical stripes with melded colors looks woven to me (I'm a weaver and a knitter). My mind is inundated with possibilities. I just learned Tunisian Crochet and was about to start a temperature blanket with that but now I'm thinking about this sequence knitting idea instead. Yes, it blew up my brain but now my brain is partying!
Brain Party! 🎉 Following a written pattern is challenging for me, but I can picture this in my head . This is going to be fun to play with! 😁 Thanks 👍🏻
💕😀xx thanks SO much Nicole. That’s really got me thinking. I’m going to do some swatching and really play with some ideas. I design all my own knitted garments so there could be endless possibilities! 🧶🥰🙏
knit two pearl two over an odd number of stitches gives you a certain look that I like, but I like it better with the English method of knitting. I knit continental and sort of tight. The English method or 6:14 throwing method of knitting is looser and the knit two pro two over odd number of stitches Looks so much better than continental
Sequence Knitting has been in my Amazon wishlist for ages. Thanks for explaining sequence knitting. I have a birthday coming up. This book may appear on my wishlist 😊
I'm so excited to start a sequence pattern, yet I have so many patterns from Expression Fiber Arts that I've started and need to get off my needles and hooks to start. I purchased the snack book from your link and thanks so much! It's time for a martini!!! or 3! Cheers!
I got both Sequence Knitting and Making Marls after watching your marls video! Such a brain party! I want to know how to use sequence knitting in making more garments than scarves! Signed up for the MDK course.
@@Knicoleknits This is great! I would love to hear more about your ideas. The only garment I’ve seen so far was the Spectrum(?) sweater in the MDK booklet.
Thanks so much for this! I always love it when after 40 years of knitting I come across something new, using something old. My brain is definitely having a party!
This is exactly what I look for in a pattern reversible and textured and sequencing that’s simple also use stitch markers because it can be frustrating to make errors
I’m not the greatest knitter around because my hands go numb after a while, but I LOVE this!! I opened RU-vid this morning because a friend of mine started a new channel and right below him was this video. It all happens for a reason. I’m going to check out the snacks and the full meal. I spent a fortune on the newest Vogue Knitting book a few years back so these are much more affordable. I’m excited to try these combos!!
In some ways it's not, but mostly the difference lies in the fact that most pattern repeats require you to do something different on alternate rows. With sequence knitting, you just keep repeating the same stitch sequence over and over again on every row, no matter what. The vast majority of pattern repeats are not like this. I suspect that having the book and testing it out for yourself will help solidify the concept for you 😊
