Parallelograms - Right Slanting

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I made 5 versions of this cloth. It was a challenge to find a balance between the size of each parallelogram and the finished cloth size. I wanted taller parallelograms, but that made the cloth too wide. I played around with wide parallelograms, narrow parallelograms, tall parallelograms, short parallelograms, and varied the number of total parallelograms (boy is this word a finger twister to type!), and finally decided that version 3 was the one I liked best. It was the one that was closest in size to the other three Geometric Lace Cloths, and that was important to me because I wanted to make these cloths go together as a set.

This Parallelograms Cloth is part of my series of Geometric Lace Cloths...

Diamonds Cloth pattern can be found here:
http://smariek.blogspot.com/2007/01/diamonds.html

Parallelograms Cloth - Left Slanting pattern can be found here:
http://smariek.blogspot.com/2007/01/parallelograms-left-slanting.html

Squares Cloth pattern can be found here:
http://smariek.blogspot.com/2006/12/squares.html

Triangles Cloth pattern can be found here:
http://smariek.blogspot.com/2006/12/triangles.html



Stitches used in this cloth include:
Alsatian Pattern, BW3 pg 154
Garter Stitch, BW1 pg 10

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Parallelograms - Right Slanting
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Please read "Notes" section at the bottom before starting.

Using WW kitchen cotton and US7 (4.5mm) needles, cast on 38 stitches.

Knit 4 rows border

Row 1 (WS): B3, P32, B3
Row 2 (RS): B3, K5, (K2Tog, YO)x3, K4, (K2Tog, YO)x3, K4, (K2Tog, YO)x3, K1, B3
Row 3: B3, P32, B3
Row 4: B3, K4, (K2Tog, YO)x3, K4, (K2Tog, YO)x3, K4, (K2Tog, YO)x3, K2, B3
Row 5: B3, P32, B3
Row 6: B3, K3, (K2Tog, YO)x3, K4, (K2Tog, YO)x3, K4, (K2Tog, YO)x3, K3, B3
Row 7: B3, P32, B3
Row 8: B3, K2, (K2Tog, YO)x3, K4, (K2Tog, YO)x3, K4, (K2Tog, YO)x3, K4, B3
Row 9: B3, P32, B3
Row 10: B3, K1, (K2Tog, YO)x3, K4, (K2Tog, YO)x3, K4, (K2Tog, YO)x3, K5, B3

Repeat rows 1-10, three more times
Work one more row of B3, P32, B3
Knit 4 rows
Bind off. Weave in ends.

Notes:

B3 = 3 stitch border of your choice (I used K3 for my border in the cloth above)

K2TOG = knit 2 stitches together

YO = yarn over

Instructions in parentheses followed by x3 means you do what is in the paretheses the number of times indicated after "x". For example, (K2Tog, YO)x3 means you would do K2Tog, YO, K2Tog, YO, K2Tog, YO.


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