More flowers May 9, 2008
I’m knitting flowers again. Couldn’t help myself. I was pattern stitch diving the other day, came across this flower pattern, and fell in love.
I had to change it a tiny bit, though. See that two-stitch trough between the repeats? You can see up above where I replaced the two reverse-stockinette stitches with one stockinette stitch. I like it much, much better that way. You should see the second swatch I’m working on with just the one stitch between the motif repetitions. Much better. Soon, very soon, I’ll be casting on the real one, with the Dianthus Zephyr Wool-Silk that I have left over from knitting Garden Party. I think it’ll be pretty in that color. 
I have the perfect edging picked out, too. It’s delicate, flirty, fun. And it’s only a four-row repeat, so there’s hope that I might have a chance of memorizing it before I’m done with the scarf. Kathryn has agreed to test knit the stole version of this one for me. Isn’t she a dear?
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This new pattern has a name already. I know. Can you believe it? After all that I went through trying to name Dulcavina. The main stitch pattern is called bellflower. I plugged that word into Wikipedia to see what I would get, knowing that there’s at least one flower that uses that as its common name. I found tons of them. I didn’t look at all of them, but saw one that I liked right off, the Campanula family. Glancing down the list of plants in the family I saw a name that I really liked, Campanula medium, or Canterbury Bells. Love it. It’s perfect, absolutely perfect.
kathryn May 9
Oh I like what I’ve seen so far! I’m looking forward to this one, looking forward to seeing more - and we’ve got Canterbury Bells that grow “wild” in our little wood in France. That’s a good omen.
~Kristie May 9
I’m going to have to stop reading your blog. Just seeing that beautiful design is making me so sad that I don’t have time to test knit this. I don’t know how much more of it I can bear. ;-)
Mikki May 9
Oh yeah, the old reverse stockinette replaced with the single stockinette stitch trick, sitting right there between the two-stitch trough!
;-)
anne May 11
oh i’ve always loved that stitch too . . very pretty!
Susan B May 11
Too funny - I did a sock with that stitch in it! If I ever get my energy levels back (too many viruses in a row!) I’m going to try to finish up the pattern for it - I’ve got 95% of the pattern written, but that last 5% is the crucial part. (Isn’t it always?????)
http://bloominworkshop.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/happy-may-day/
(where my sock-swap pal debuted the socks with the pattern stitch in question.)
jam_mam May 13
Lovely Canterbury bells are so pretty, I look forward to seeing your progress and admiring the finished piece. Is it going to be a shawl or a stole? Or do I have to wait? LOL