November 28, 2003
Swatch-a-rama
I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. DH and I had a lovely potluck evening with friends. All I had to do for Thanksgiving dinner this year was make a salad, so I had plenty of time to try out some fair isle ideas. This was the palette, in Rowan Yorkshire Tweed 4-ply:
Swatch A. This is my favorite, inspired by a design I glimpsed in an old, old, old Rowan mag. I'm going to go ahead and knit this as a crew-neck pullover.
Swatch B. Traditional, a bit boring, definitely needs some work.
Swatch C. I see this maybe as a cardigan. The chart for this came straight out of Sheila McGregor's Fair Isle book - I just added the colors.
Linette
Posted by at November 28, 2003 12:23 AMGasp! You have the gift, my dear. The second one only needs a little more pop on the second motif's center to stand out, but I LOVE the color combo. I like the green and rose diamonds together on the third one a lot... I could go on and on. Very nice :-)
Posted by: Sheila on November 29, 2003 08:13 AMWow, very nice. That top one will look good on you with your black hair. You are so good with color!!! Maybe you should publish a book of charts for color knitting.....
Posted by: CarolineF on December 1, 2003 05:51 AMLinette, when are us mortals supposed to catch up with you?
Pattern request the second, or is it the third? #1 is gorgeous and definitely my colours - wheedle, wheedle, wheedle.
Posted by: Angela on December 1, 2003 11:26 AMThank you for compliments, ladies. The yarn does all the work. With these tweeds you almost can't come up with a bad color combo. Angela, say the word and I'd be more than happy to send along a chart and color key :-)
Posted by: Linette on December 1, 2003 01:27 PMthey are all so different, i like them all! i agree with sheila, b just needs a liitle jolt in the center of the top pattern. can't wait to see em knit in a sweater.
Posted by: vanessa on December 2, 2003 03:43 AMI *really, really* want to do a sweater with the colors (and pattern) in swatch #1!! Please send pattern - and yarn colors - oh, and someone to knit it would be great, too, because I'm just *swamped* with holiday stuff right now...
Posted by: Caroline in NH on December 4, 2003 03:45 PM