Amazing what some macro+zooming combination does! (And of course by accident:) ) When I saw this blown up on the computer screen it took me a while to even regognise what it was, it looks like fibre optics or angelina! All those little sparkles of light.
It was a sunny weekend. I'm also having troubles getting the pattern for this scarf up before the end of June. I can get the knitting done and I have all the written parts ready but oh, the charts! I've never done charts on computer and I am kind of wondering which way to take - make a grid in photoshop and then add knitting symbols font on it? Or just use excel, add the symbols on cells and then make all cells even squares? Decisions, decisions!
I did take a bunch of closeups on the sunny evenings this weekend so I have at least some photos done. Still, it'll be hours and hours before I can have anything done.
In conclusion: I am finally working on this pattern again. And in an unrelated matter, I have a skein of Wollmeise's sock yarn coming to me! I never knew it was actually possible to get it! Part of me hopes that I won't get too excited about the yarn because it's so difficult to obtain, but for what I've read in other people's comments, the yarn looks just as great irl as it does on the photos.
Such lovely colours also always make me dream of learning to dye. I'd have so many great colour combinations and shades in mind already... but I'm fighting the urge! At least until I have my own house..:D Which is most likely never.
I should be working hard on the lace design I have going, it is working out really pretty so far, I just need to knit the sample before trying to find test knitters and actually publish it... so, the reasonable thing to do is to start a different project:)
Actually, I've been working out clearing all the yarn I'm not going to knit with from my stash and a skein of rainbow yarn came up. It wasn't enough to make a bigger project with and I realised it was perfect for some intentional pooling! So here we go:) I love love love the pooling thread on Ravelry and have been waiting to get my hands on some Wollmeise or Schaefer Anne or other pretty and colourful yarn to make some pooling scarves. But meanwhile, this one can do:)
I just aligned the colour repeats in the yarn for a few rows, then casted on with scrap yarn and started knitting and trying to keep the colour aligned.The colour runs are so short it's a bit difficult, but it works:) The yarn is Novita Hippy from.. 3-4 years back and it always had these amazing colour but I didn't know how to make them actually look nice until now. I only have the one skein so this'll probably become a cowl/neckwarmer or just something unpractical because it isn't enough for a scarf.
Oh, and happy Midsommer!
I've spent the last two weeks in another city, working... it's funny what a change of place does. I was certain that I wouldn't get anything done and I'd just be homesick all the time but instead it's the opposite. This morning, packing my things before heading back home for the weekend, I felt really reluctant to get back home. And I'm happy that I'll still have a few more weeks over there.
But here's a colourful duck:) I've found lots of good music lately and following that, I've lots of great ways of using colours as well.
I haven't really known how to do these things lately, so with this one I'm just happy that I made something! It's a spread in an unthemed altered book by a friend. "Tie" means "way" in English, by the way;)
Inkpads and then some iridescent ink and some ephemera. Plus a duck:)
This is likely going to be my new lace design. I'm saying likely, because after hours and hours of swatching with stitch patterns that "are sure to look beautiful" , I'm a ever so sligtly skeptical about this one, too, until I see how it works out in a larger scale. Hopefully things will work out because I really like the idea in my head, at least. i'm trying to finish it by the end of June, which is a bit of a challenge but on the other hand deadlines tend to help me with getting things done. Perhaps I'll post some more sneak peeks along the way:)
I have a special liking to taking picture of lace in its first rows. It is so cute, looking more like a tangled mess at that point and then the transformation into lovely, flowy lace pattern is just magical.
Oh, as for some specs, this is going to be a scarf with instructions on enlarging it to a stole, the yarn is purple laceweigh linen from Vuorelma,( I'll try to find some other linen yarns to recommend as well) and... well that's all I know at this stage:)
Yeah, I went and did it. That'll make me the last person on Earth, but oh well:) I haven't knit very much this spring, partly because of the problems with my wrist and partly because of other deadlines, responsibilities and such. And also partly because I have felt obligated to dedicate time for designing efforts as well. It might very well be that the efforst don't take me very far, but I'd feel guilty or disappointed afterwards if I didn't even try.
Having said that, I realised I needed a summer scarf. Then I saw green Hipknits Silk Aran and things just clicked, a bright green Clapotis to crunch around my neck was the way to go! Unfortunately, once I got the yarn, it was a sort of sea green and not the bright green I thought I was seeing on the monitor. I decided to go ahead with the Clapotis anyhow and umm, buy some other bright and summery yarn to make another, summery fun scarf. I'm even considering yellow! We'll see.
Another inspired by a book - themed booklet, I even stayed with Robin Hobb. This one was a difficult one, I'm not entirely sure I felt like I needed to se this exact moment because to me, it's the most sad and difficult one in the series... But I won't give out spoilers! I'll just end this by saying that this is mostly about emptiness.
Copics for the colours and some soft pastel lines. The background is transparency paper painted with gesso. I was trying to paint emptiness and well, you don't just paint emptiness, apparently;) So, after many unsuccesful efforts that was the best I could come up with.
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