Almost a month without posting - what have I been doing? Not huge amounts of knitting, that's for sure.
I have been doing a good deal of head-scratching related to the green waistcoat. The trouble is that I am likely to be influenced by the last thing that has caught my eye. In this case, there's a dose of Marie Wallin in the mix, specifically using a combination of multi-coloured peerie stripes and a block of a monochrome pattern. Not that I have any of her designs, of course, but just the concept.
I felt that the swatch, rendered as a full garment would look a bit stripy from across a room, as the colours are so different. I also think this version will look like conifer woodlands in their serried ranks. There's a touch of Alice Starmore's Oregon here, although that is multi-coloured.
So - a walk in our local arboretum, and we find catkins fully out and waving in the January sun. A bit premature, I feel.
Geese grazing near the walled garden.
And Hamamelis , but curiously, no scent.
I have been doing a good deal of head-scratching related to the green waistcoat. The trouble is that I am likely to be influenced by the last thing that has caught my eye. In this case, there's a dose of Marie Wallin in the mix, specifically using a combination of multi-coloured peerie stripes and a block of a monochrome pattern. Not that I have any of her designs, of course, but just the concept.
I felt that the swatch, rendered as a full garment would look a bit stripy from across a room, as the colours are so different. I also think this version will look like conifer woodlands in their serried ranks. There's a touch of Alice Starmore's Oregon here, although that is multi-coloured.
So - a walk in our local arboretum, and we find catkins fully out and waving in the January sun. A bit premature, I feel.
Geese grazing near the walled garden.
And Hamamelis , but curiously, no scent.
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I love the colors you've got going. Looking forward to seeing which way you decide to go.
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