black & white and playing with colors
Each Wednesday, I take stock of the projects I’m working on.
The giant granny square blanket, soon to be cardigan is blocked. Two quick seams, and it’ll stop being a certainly-not-small sized blanket, and be a cardigan.
And I’ve spent most of this week playing with colors + embroidering swatches of color. Weeks and weeks (and weeks ago), I asked what things trip you up when you’re planning colorwork projects, or working with color?
Since then, I’ve been experimenting and playing around with color, color theory, and how to practice working with colors. Kind of exploring the idea of color theory for knitters (and other crafty types). Going deeper into color theory, than just complimentary colors, and monochromatic color schemes. Pinning down how to translate abstract color theory into real world clothes, projects, and wardrobes, and vise versa.
So, I’ve been doing lots of writing, and rewriting, and messy-messing-about-re-re-writing, (and swatching) and I’m beginning to think that I maybe have tentatively found something – and maybe (just maybe) I’ve hit the point where these disparate bits and pieces are coming together into something. And that’s always a damn good feeling.
and finished… sort of
Each Wednesday, I take stock of the projects I’m working on.
The crocheting for the giant granny square-soon to be cardigan, is done. Yay! It’s soaking as we speak, so hopefully I’ll have a new cardigan soon.
Other than that, I’ve been embroidering and playing around with colors and swatches and general experimentations.
diving back into crochet
Each Wednesday, I take stock of the projects I’m working on.
It turns out that all I needed to dive back into my giant crochet cardigan was a couple days of cold rainy weather, a couple days with only one or two commitments, and the beginnings of a cold. Curling up under what’s basically a lap blanket, for a couple days, did double duty in fighting off my cold/flu thing, and catapulting my cardigan towards finished.
I’m about halfway through the final round, then I just have to weave in a pile of ends, wash and block the square, and sew a quicky seam. And then I’ll finish the first made-by-me-for-me garment since the self-made wardrobe project.
Also! The Great Northern Kickstarter campaign has just 64 hours to go (at the time of hitting publish on this post. So! if you’d love some Twin Peaks inspired gently absurd and entirely wearable knitwear in your life, go check it out. And if you want to know more about the project, here’s my interview with one of the designers.
