#not to shit on weaving btw very important craft

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incorporating magic into your wip is so fun because you can drop a nuclear chemist who dropped an atom bomb on her village into a Greek polis and see her live in a shack and use her blood to cure cancer while everyone else is like ……. weaving or smth.

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“Goldrosa” Knitted Blanket Pattern

“Goldrosa - Upward (Structure in Red)” Josef Albers. ca. 1926. 

Image Credit: https://theartstack.com/artist/josef-albers/goldrosa-nil-upward-stru

I took a bunch of art history courses during my university career and there was a class/section that went over the Bauhaus and how that work (created at the school) has influenced art and society from then on out. I was intrigued and inspired by how these creative minds lent their talents to an institution during a time when a lot of shit was going on in the world and how they collectively made works (of various mediums) that managed to withstand the test of time.

As someone who loves textiles (I mean I am a textile science major), I searched up and read (“Women’s Work: Textile Art from the Bauhaus” by Sigrid Weltge-Wortmann) which focused on the women who created textiles within the Bauhaus (if you hadn’t noticed by the title). Through this book, I came across Anni Albers (I then stumbled upon her husband Josef Albers!). Their work captured my attention because it’s so simple but so sleek and still very much enjoyable many years later.

I found this book during a time when I was mentally going through a lot of shit (is post-graduate blues a thing? Still struggling btw) which hindered my ability to create (I was feeling uninspired and just all round eh...again still feeling this way), but once I saw Josef’s “Goldrosa - Upward (Structure in Red)”, I quickly found myself knitting a blanket version of it (because it’s just so niceee).

But anyway here’s the pattern! This blanket I would say is beginner level as it is all garter stitch but the Intarsia could make it challenging for a couple of sections before you get used to it (I tried it for the first time in this blanket!).

Here’s a written pattern for this blanket. Hope it’s kinda easy to follow. I am quite the scatter brain. So if you have any questions, shoot them at me and I’ll help as much as I can.

*This photo is horrible but it shows the blanket in full so that’s all that matters!* 

IMPORTANT NOTES:

+ Always change colours on the right side of the work + Follow the diagram right to left (this is how I ended up doing it) + Work the blanket bottom up (Section 1 - 17) + Each colour change that occurs within a section needs a separate ball of yarn (ie, Section 16 requires 2 pink yarn balls and 1 white yarn ball) + Prep/wind yarn balls before starting a section, this will save you a headache

ABBREVIATIONS:

+ STS: Stitches

DIAGRAMS + GENERAL THINGS TO HELP YOU OUT:

+ Here is the zoomed in part of the piece I directly took from (not all the sections are the same as the original piece by Albers; I did alter it slightly)

+ Finally, here is a chart (that I hope makes sense!) showing a breakdown of each section...all down to how many stitches are needed for each piece within each section

+ If this is your first time attempting Intarsia, I’ve supplied some links to help you out

https://www.interweave.com/article/knitting/about-intarsia-knitting-patterns/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxBOutAvgXY

MATERIALS:

+ 5.00 mm circular knitting needles + 2x Black yarn (I used Craft Smart) + 2x Pink yarn (Caron One Pound in Rose) + 2x White yarn (Craft Smart)  + Safety pins or scrap yarn or stitch markers + Scissors + Yarn needle

Finished dimensions are 40” x 51” 

PATTERN:

+ Section 17: Cast on 162 STS in black. Place a safety pin (or stitch markers or scrap pieces of yarn whatever you have will do) at the beginning of the cast on (this is just so you know the right side of the work). Knit until work measures 3” which for me was 22 rows. + Section 16: I placed safety pins at each point of colour change (just to help me visualize what I was about to do next and to help me keep track of the Intarsia I was doing). Following the diagram, knit and change colours accordingly. At this point, you can weave in the ends as you go (I’m sure there’s a way you can knit them into the work but I’m new to this technique so I left tails to weave in at the end). + Section 15-1: Are basically the same as the previous sections, just follow the chart and take note that some sections do repeat. +  Section 1: Cast off and weave in ends.