Hopper Crystal Pillow by Virginia Catherall

Hopper Crystal Pillow

Knitting
August 2014
Worsted (9 wpi) ?
19 stitches and 30 rows = 4 inches
in stockinette
US 4 - 3.5 mm
240 - 250 yards (219 - 229 m)
English
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The salt crystals that form on the edges of Great Salt Lake are beautiful and varied. On rare occasions, the halite crystals grow so rapidly, the interior does not have time to form, creating a geometric hoppered shape. These hopper salt crystals can be removed from the lake bed like pulling teeth, giving you a perfect crystal of receding concentric squares.