Certainly! I was planning on doing it at some point; I just hadn't gotten around to it yet. I took a lot of inspiration, I must admit, from having made Celestine and Doddy in the past year for my nephew. Both use that 'outside in' technique where each section is knit directly onto the last rather than assembled later.
For my starting square, I cast on 64 stitches in black (double stranded), evenly spread over four DPNs, then joined in the round. Row 1: Still in black - *SSK, K12, K2tog* four times. Cut black yarn, attach coloured yarn (double stranded). Row 2: Now chosen colours - Knit Row 3: *SSK, K10, K2tog* four times
and so on, repeating last two rows, the K stitches decreasing by two every second row, until
Row whatever: *SSK, K2tog* four times - (8) Last row: *Sl 1, K1, PSSO* four times - (4)
Cut yarn, draw yarn through four stitches, pull tight, and draw end through to back. I tend to use a crochet hook, because it's easier.
The second square is exactly the same, only the last sixteen stitches of cast on are picked up and knit from an edge of the first square. I also use a crochet hook for this bit, lining the picked up loops of yarn up along the handle and then just slipping them off the bottom end of the hook onto a DPN when I have sixteen. (This won't work if you have a crochet hook with a moulded handle.)
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Date: 2010-04-10 09:15 am (UTC)For my starting square, I cast on 64 stitches in black (double stranded), evenly spread over four DPNs, then joined in the round.
Row 1: Still in black - *SSK, K12, K2tog* four times. Cut black yarn, attach coloured yarn (double stranded).
Row 2: Now chosen colours - Knit
Row 3: *SSK, K10, K2tog* four times
and so on, repeating last two rows, the K stitches decreasing by two every second row, until
Row whatever: *SSK, K2tog* four times - (8)
Last row: *Sl 1, K1, PSSO* four times - (4)
Cut yarn, draw yarn through four stitches, pull tight, and draw end through to back. I tend to use a crochet hook, because it's easier.
The second square is exactly the same, only the last sixteen stitches of cast on are picked up and knit from an edge of the first square. I also use a crochet hook for this bit, lining the picked up loops of yarn up along the handle and then just slipping them off the bottom end of the hook onto a DPN when I have sixteen. (This won't work if you have a crochet hook with a moulded handle.)