Looping Back

About Looping Back

Making a loop, knitting with part of it, and then tightening it is a peculiar technique that lends itself to some unusual applications. You can bind off on both ends of the same row to preserve symmetry. You can also add modules — intarsia, entrelac, or even side-to-side edgings — in a way that is seamless and elegant. These are all various applications of Rick Mondragon’s sliding loop/modular intarsia technique.

What will students learn:
how to use Mondragon loop to work modular intarsia, particularly useful when controlling the flashing of multicolored yarns
how to work flat (sometimes reversible!) entrelac, based on the work on Jay Petersen
how to join a perpendicular lace edge using this technique (a very flat join, indeed!)
how to bind-off at both ends without having one edge of the fabric being one row taller than the other

Materials, Equipment, and Supplies the Student Must Bring to Class

homework swatch
class yarn (smooth, non-splitting, light or bright or medium color) in a couple colors
needles to work that yarn
cable or double-pointed needles (optional, but helpful)
waste yarn (slippery, such as mercerized cotton, if possible)

Materials Kit and Kit Description

No materials kit for this class.

Pre-class Homework

Using three different colors of yarn, cast on 30 stitches (10 sequentially in each color) and work three vertical columns of stripes 10 stitches wide in intarsia for about 10 rows. We’ll be observing the structure of intarsia by unraveling some of this in class, so feel free to use leftover scrap yarn. Picture and directions on my website here: https://jolieaelder.blogspot.com/p/looping-back-homework.html