As I mentioned in my previous blog I am very fond of symmetrical patterns.
Symmetry is a result of using some simple forms and transforming them by rotation, reflection or translation or a combination of these to form all sorts of rosettes or planar patterns. These isometries are very well known in mathematics and chemistry and partly due to this I find these patterns so fascinating.
Reading on in the book I mentioned in my last article ( Sjonabok) I have discovered that the eight petal rose that is so common in Old Icelandic patterns as well as in some of our neighbour´s cultures is all about this divinity of symmetries and has connections to the much older set of writing, the runes. The points of the eight petal rose can be inscribed in a circle, with its eight points on the circle and lines drawn between them forming the rose. The entire runic alphabet can as a matter of fact be inscribed in the eight petal rose. The rose contains a world of knowledge and how much more fascinating I do find this wonderful form of ornament after realising this. The word ornament is actually derived from Latin from the word ordo - which means rule or arrangement, and what a fabulous rule there is in the eight petal rose.
This time I share a design where I have continued using the patterns that I used a fortnight ago and made a hat to match the mittens I presented in my last blog. I made three just as I did with the mittens, one in the yarn Mini Alpakka (Sandnes garn) with the blue pattern colour in Alpakka royal ( Mayflower ). The green one in Yeoman Yarn Sport 4 ply and the third in Mini Alpakka (Sandnes garn) with the yellow pattern colour in Estelle by Permin
I encourage those who have a picture of my projects in use to send them to me and allow me to use them in my blog and on my Instagram account: knitting with lisa for kwl.is where I also intend to upload some older pictures of projects that are not my own design but have been made in the last few years.
