I just got my week 4 Knitting Season exercises finished and blocked! For this one, I took the 4×4 exercises from week 3 and expanded on them a bit. I did fewer patterns, but did more experimenting.
The bottom pattern just added an extra row between cable rows to give it a bit more room. Here it is with the original
I have been sort of trying to recreate the look of water movement or waves with these stitch patterns, and this series is just honeycombs, no matter how much space I gave it. So instead of this, I decided to just offset the pattern rows by one stitch. That became my second section. Again, here it is next to the original where the pattern is stacked directly.
And the final section added 2 stitches between my vertical meandering cable pattern. This one was not a success. Possibly it would look better with a different yarn, but I think the pattern just got lost in all the extra space. Here it is with the original again.
I am enjoying these pattern experiments so much, I am thinking about trying to put together a cowl out of them. So we shall see what comes of it!
Quite A Yarn 
I think you’ve really captured the essence of the ocean in the middle pic, left side. It makes me think of white caps! How exciting. I can’t wait to see which version you go with!
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Thank you! I may use a couple of them – maybe a progression of the same general pattern?
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It’s good that you can use your experiments for something useful. I think they would make a great cowl!
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Cowls are good things to knit and to have 🙂
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Those are so pretty! I love that yarn too:)
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Thank you! It is a surprisingly nice yarn – from a distance it is kind of blah, but up close there’s a lot going on 🙂
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O-o-o-o-o-o! LOVE the stitch texture!
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Thanks – I’m happy with the exercise as well!
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Look at you all designing and being creative! I do like how you are recording the patterns, I am not good at note taking!
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LOL – trying anyway! I’m usually not good at it either. Trying to get better, and the journal is definitely helping. What has been working is charting the patterns ahead of time, then making notes on the charts. Or the last one I just did, then immediately set down my knitting and wrote it down 🙂 That’s the only way I will get it done at all!
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