Monday, October 12, 2026

Idea fragments (nalbinding)

Not enough for full ideas, just a few things I don't want to forget.

- Try a hat from bottom up.  How does it differ since the stitches are not 100% horizontally symmetric?  Also, how does the decrease method differ from the increase method, especially as one nears the center point?

- Do a stitch that is somewhere between York stitch and Saltdal stitch.

York is UU/OOO F2.

Saltdal is UUU/OOOU F1.

What would it look like to do UU/OOU?  In other words, do the Saltdal move but with two loops instead of three.

I should actually try York to see what I think about it.  And Saltdal doesn't look  particularly difficult, either.  It can be done as a 1+2 kind of stitch, but one enters loop 2 and loop 1 from behind before going under the thumb loop and over the working yarn.  So almost the inverse of Korgen/Mammen (though Korgen/Mammen is UOO/UUOO, with the needle entering the back loops from front to back, loop 1 and then loop 2, and the final yarn goes under the working loop rather than over it).

There's also a 1+2 version of the Björsbo stitch, called Rindal stitch -- UOO/UUOU F1, a 1+2 stitch where one goes over the working yarn at the end.

https://en.neulakintaat.fi/111 for Rindal stitch.

Watching this video on Saltdal stitch was enlightening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH_3vOSh_bA .  I've already watched a lot of York stitch videos!

https://en.neulakintaat.fi/43 for Saltdal stitch.  https://en.neulakintaat.fi/48 for York stitch.

There is another stitch on the site that is given as OO/UUO, and the person calls it Double Danish.  Is this pretty much the same as UU/OOU but from the reverse side?  https://en.neulakintaat.fi/51

- I watched a video of someone doing Mammen stitch  (actually Korgen since it was 1+2 F1) but says that she uses finer yarn since it looks too thick with the bulky yarn that a lot of other teaching videos use.  So try that, maybe?  I do plan to do something in Mammen stitch soon anyway.

That is all for now, I think.  I might add more later.


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