Binary Delusion

Human beings have a strong bias for binary thinking, a basic urge to divide things into opposing groups. Good and bad. Heroes and villains. Man and woman. Black and white. This limited thinking can cause problems and excludes the things/beings that don’t fit this binary system. There are infinite colors, not only black and white!

Broaden your perspective, look from different angles and you will sense other things/beings in different forms, sounds, looks, scents, thoughts, feelings.

Binary Delusion is about changing our perspectives; two colors are fused by alternating two rows and two-color Garter ridges giving the illusion that there are skewed squares being looked at from different angles. It reminds us that not everything is the same as we see, as we think, as we’ve been taught.

YARN

Queerdo Collection

C1: 2 skeins of The Wee Yarn Company, Shoogle Merino Singles, Lavender Scare (100% SW Merino, 100 gr / 3.5 oz & 366 m / 400 yds per skein)

C2: 2 skeins of Undercover Otter, Singularity, Pillow Prince (100% SW Merino Singles, 100 gr / 3.5 oz & 366 m / 400 yds per skein)

YARDAGE

808 yds / 739 m of fingering weight yarn for both colors (total 1616 yds / 1478 m) (consider having approx. +15% yardage to make sure not running out of yarn)

SIZES

One Size: with 75.25” / 191 cm length (longest chevron), 33.75” / 86 cm depth at widest point

NEEDLES

US 4 / 3.50 mm needles (straight or circular), any length to accomodate stitches; or size needed to obtain gauge

NOTIONS

5 stitch markers and a tapestry needle

GAUGE

24 sts x 36 rows = 4” / 10 cm in Alternating Garter & Stockinette Stitch

SKILLS

Level: Intermediate

Techniques: Stockinette & Garter stitch, yarn overs, decreases, I-cord edges, 2-color I-cord bind off

NOTES

Binary Delusion is a shawl constructed with alternating 2 rows of Garter and Stockinette stitch. It starts from an edge and expands through the middle. There are 6 slices separated by decreases and yarn over increases and 3 Chevron repeats until first bind off edge. Colors of Garter Ridges are alternated in each slice and they changed after 10 Garter Ridge rows / 10 yarn over rows are completed.

Stitches of the first 2 slices (first Chevron) are bound off after 7 repeats of Garter ridge blocks, then the next 2 slices’ (second Chevron) stitches are bound off after 3 repeats of the Ridge blocks. Finally, the last 2 slices (third Chevron) are bound off.

It is trimmed with I-cord edges and bound off with 2-color I-cord bind off technique to have the same look as the edge I-cords, also yarns are being carried to point where they need to be worked.