A nice-appearing day, but I didn’t get out. My walking plan — see yesterday — continued to,work. No more wheelchair for the time being.
And the shawl continues to advance. I now know the pattern well, and can knit a whole scallop, out and back, without losing the thread. After that my thots begin to drift.
Thank you for your comments about random-knit sweaters. Helen (anon) I do recall (prompted by you) Kaffe’s instructions for random knitting. Glorious Knitting? Anyway, I’ll find it. Jenny, where are the sweaters you like better than the Toast one? I’d like to take a look. And I haven’t heard of Laerke Bagger and will rectify that situation right away.
Wordle: today it was Rachel, with a four, who spoiled an otherwise perfect set of threes. Theo is included, but silence from Roger so far. My starters, much like yesterday, gave me a green and three browns. Nothing to do but wrestle with the anagram.
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Jean, I just googled "Scrap Yarn Sweater" and looked at the pictures. All the commercial ones look a bit bulky and crude to me, no doubt because they want to do the job economically. The hand knits from real scraps look to have a wider range of colours and a greater subtlety. I wonder if the current commercial ones are all based on a particular catwalk interpretation?
ReplyDeleteAlso, if you google Kaffe Fassett magic ball, there are lots of interesting blog posts and examples. I'd forgotten that he had interpreted his "Persian Poppies" pattern using this technique. There are some lovely examples of this out there too.
I particularly like the comment given in Brandon Mably's piece on magic ball technique re Persian Poppies, where he quotes Fassett as saying "if in doubt, add another 20 or so colours". Maybe this is why the current commercial ones look so crude to me - because they are only using a few priimary colours?
JennyS