Photos: Dragons Ruff
I don’t think I’ve really blogged about this shawl much. I sort of slipped it in at the end of last year as the last shawl for 11 shawls in 2011. The pattern has been patiently waiting for photos and a final edit, (it has probably been a couple months at this point, oops). But now that I have the photos edited, the pattern will be out tomorrow.
Much like the knitting for Spider Silk, it was an easy, comforting knit, that didn’t take a huge amount of brain power, but wasn’t totally mind numbing either.
Photos: Parterre Garden
Originally published in partnership with The Sanguine Gryphon (sadly, no longer in existence), it was inspired by images of Parterre Gardens (but you probably could have guessed that.) The idea was to create small groupings of flowers contained within fences of cables and migrating decreases. Sections after section of flowers were placed next to and on top of each other to cascade down the shawl and create the idea of an overflowing garden.
It turns out that this color is amazingly hard to photograph. It’s a combination of pastel greens, yellows, pinks, purples, and is really very beautiful (though not my normal colors), but tricky to photograph. Maybe at some point I’ll knit this again in a solid or semi-solid colorway.
The pattern for this shawl, along with Zodiac le Plume and Gene Tierney, the divine (all originally published with the Sanguine Gryphon) with be republished tomorrow.
Photos: Ponycorns and Rainbow Fragments
Ponycorns and Rainbow Fragments. I really love the way that this came out, especially how the patterning diagonal lines and the crazy amounts of color don’t compete, but rather work with each other. Sometimes the patterning is more dominant, and sometimes the colors take over, I think that the other is still always visible and present within the shawl. Most of the time I’m extremely cautious when it comes to crazy color and lace, but I think in this case it came out great.
