Thursday, September 30, 2004

Mosaic Madness!

Last night, pondering what to do with the poncho, I remembered something I’d seen recently.  As it happens, I currently have the first two Walker treasuries out of the library, so a few moments of leafing through the second one brought me to what I was looking for.

Mosaic knitting!  In fact this would address a couple of issues.  First, if I use this at the bottom of the panel, done in garter stitch, it would lie nice and flat.  I like the seed stitch I’ve been using, but it is (of course) flipping up instead of lying down and behaving itself.  Second, while I probably wouldn’t run the design up the sides, there wouldn’t be any reason not to run the colors up the sides, alternating in a horizontal garter stitch border which would keep the sides also nice and flat (non-curling) andpreserve the color contrast to the top where the mosaic would be repeated - or maybe even another design executed?





I’m going to play with this idea some more and maybe see if the library consortium can find me Walker’s Mosaic Knitting…

...Ahhh - they do have a copy and are going to request it for me.  I love my library.

Yesterday really was quite cool and poor Jade spent the day hopping from one available lap to the other.  She’s only about half Goldie’s size and she’s short haired with no real undercoat to speak of so she felt the temperature keenly.  At least that’s what she was telling us all day.  Goldie, however, being a big, burly fellow with an undercoat you could knit kittens from, is vastly enjoying the cooler weather.

As am I :)

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1. Nice swatch… I would love to invest in Barbara Walkers books. They seem to be a wealth of information. I keep watching them on Ebay....boy the bidding can get crazy for them. I think it would look great on your poncho. I meant to ask you if you finished the Fannie Flagg book? One of my favorites is Fried Green Tomatoes.

   Posted by Maureen  on  09/30  at  11:28 AM
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2. see there, i knew you would find a clever ‘fix’- the mosaic looks interesting- at first glance the top pic looks a bit like a ‘bat and ghost’ pattern- well, maybe i need to wear glasses and after all, halloween is coming so i might have been thinking about that-

   while living in the boondocks has its advantages (and i will find them someday for sure) one of the drawbacks is the lack of a good library- i spend lots of time haunting the powells.com site online- they have good prices on used books and will notify you when one you want becomes available-

   i can tell autumn weather isn’t too far away here as our fluffy kitties are deveoping their puffy look- during the hot weather months they have a rather pathetic molted appearance-

   stay happy-

   Posted by  on  09/30  at  12:01 PM
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3. Maureen - I’d like to own them too but they’re just too pricey for me right now.  I’ve had these out of then library before and will, no doubt again :)

   I did finish “Standing in the Rainbow” and did enjoy it.  I had also loved “Fried Green Tomatoes” :)

   Posted by Robbyn  on  09/30  at  12:45 PM
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4. Barb - I don’t know whrether it’s clever or not, but I think I’m on the right track here :) Mosaic knitting is certainly an interesting technique and, it seems, you could work out almost any design this way if you wanted to.

   Hmmm....I think I’ve given myself an idea :)

   Posted by Robbyn  on  09/30  at  12:47 PM
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