Popcorns and bobbles
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Popcorns and bobblesEntry/Object ID
2020.1.261Description
From the book: "Popcorns and Bobbles are not alike, although they are all too frequently confused with each other. Both are puffy knot-like formations made out of a single stitch. But there is a difference, and it is this: Bobbles are 'turned,' and Popcorns are not. 'Turning' means that the work is turned around to the other side, and a dew stitches worked backward over the most recent ones. In most bobble patterns the work is turned 4 times for each bobble. A popcorn, on the other hand, is made by increasing in one stitch, leaving it, and decreasing the extra stitches on the return row. Thus a popcorn requires two rows to make, being started on a wrong-side row and completed all at once on the same right-side row. It is impossible to give all the arrangements of Popcorns and Bobbles that can be made. Their number is enormous. Since each motif is formed out of a single stitch, they can be scattered over the fabric in any sort of design: in vertical columns, horizontal rows, diagonal rows, spot-patterns, diamonds, clumps or clusters, stars, squares, circles, or what have you. They can be made as isolated accents in the midst of other patterns, or to simulate buttons, or to decorate collars and cuffs. Their background can be anything at all - knit stitches, purl stitches, Seed Stitch, Moss Stitch, cables, twists, ribbings - even lace. For the sake of simplicity they are shown here are spot-patterns on Garter Stitch, but it must be remembered that this is only a basic demonstration."Collection
Barbara Walker Swatch ProjectCategory
Chapter 7 : Fancy Texture Patterns