It's Pink!

This extra-fun capelet was knitting on a 10.75 cable needle 37 inches long.  It is all rib stitch.

It is composed of eight yarns in a variety of pink, and light purple colors with a little orange mixed in for good measure.

It includes silk, wool, linen, nylon, rayon and mohair.

I knitted it over a period of about four weeks this summer.

 

Group Quilt 2020 - 2022

Community Quilt 2020

Insight Meditation Society Staff quilt

Gotta love a group quilt! Our quilt organizer, Rebecca Layton, began to develop this quilt in the spring of 2020, just as the COVID19 outbreak became obvious around the world.  Our organization hosts meditation retreats, so at that time we had to cease operations and the retreat center was in temporary suspension.  So Rebecca requested that we create a community art project.  She asked people to do a 12in. x 12 in. block and we had 24 blocks when all was said and done.

Most of the blocks were created from fabrics designed by Rebecca.  She has a business called Rekh and Datta that is a brand of clothing.  She works with artisans in India to produce wonderful block printed textiles. 

A team of three pulled together the blocks and created sashing to help make an integrated quilt top design.

Some blocks were more abstract and some blocks documented the pandemic and other happenings in the moment.  2020 was a year full of social and political upheaval, so there was a lot to think about!

Once the blocks were completed and assembled we held a few quilting bees.

Many of those who contributed to the quilt had never sewn before, so it was an opportunity to participate in a  community project in brand new way

A preview hanging in the Welcome Room of the center in January 2022.

The completed quilt in the conference room of the retreat center, spring 2022.

 

Fabric necklace - linen and velvet

18 in.; necklace, linen pendant with velvet ropes and button closure.  Glass beads on the pendant and a glass pendant at the bottom.

A sketch really helped in planning this one.

The glass pendant helps create some movement - the necklace would be rather stiff otherwise.

Almost complete!

 

Collage greeting cards

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Collage cards, mixed media, 4.5 in x 6 in with a blank insert for writing.

 

In the Studio News: the "whites" afghan continues!

 

Yes, this work begun 12 years ago is still in progress, but now there is real progress. It's about 40 or so inches and I'm looking for about 72 inches in length to finish. 

Here are two previous posts about this work:

https://thatknittingblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/whites-afghan-is-still-growing.html

http://www.thatknittingblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/in-studio-white-afghan.html

 

In the Studio news August 1, 2022: Pastel silk and intense Freia wool ombre

Shawl, knitting, wool and silk, stockingette stitch size 6 cable needle

The humble beginning, way back a couple years ago

It's always a pleasure to see the emergence of color changes in yarns that are beautifully dyed. I'm using one ball of hand-dyed silk to knit a two-row stripe and then I will use two balls of this very colorful wool to knit a two row stripes.

 

Off the needles in July 2022 - a crochet  border will finish off the edges.

In the Studio - pale blues silk and alpaca

Scarf, alpaca and silk, garter stitch, approximately 10in x 75in when completed.

This is knitted with two yarns on double pointed needles so that two rows can be knitted before turning the work.  One is a solid powder blue and on that is variegated from a sky blue to a wheat color, The strips created by the variegation get stretched out a bit by the row of solid color between every row of variegated color.

In the Studio - Shawl Merino Nylon Rayon

Shawl, woven stitch, size 11 needles, wool, rayon, nylon: work in progress

These yarns are actually tapes, which are not spun but processed in ways that result in tapes that are actually long slender fabrics themselves. I have used a merino tape and a nylon/rayon tape that are dyed with the same colors but the fibers take the colors differently.  It's a beautifully complex thing.

Mending a cashmere sweater

This beautiful red cashmere sweater is from days when I had moths, so they had a fairly substantial snack from the front of this beauty.  I've been contemplating how to mend it for years, and came across this velvet and also another cashmere sweater that I got in a clothing swap.  I think between the two acquired materials I shall be able to do either a patch/patches or some kind of reverse applique.  I want to use a good deal of embroidery too, in order to make the front of the sweater nice and splashy.

Reds! Sunset and hot tropics

My current knitting work in progress.