Friday, July 27, 2007

HOW DO I INTERPRET THEE? LET ME COUNT THE STITCHES…

Dazzling Patricia's Sunset Bolero Vest Emerging

I love it when another knitter takes one of my patterns and makes it uniquely their own. Patricia Werner, an extradordinary knitwear artist in her own write (well, she's an author )  embarked on the Sunset Bolero vest pattern after falling in love with one of the knitted versions I brought along to the Santa Fe workshop. And here she's taken it off to new heights with different stitch combinations and a particuliarly gorgeous colorscape. Isn't it beautiful? Well, she upped and bought the Sunset Bolero I designed but I love hers as much as she evidently loved mine. Yes, we have a true mutual admiration club at work here but can't help ourselves: it was kindred spirits at first stitch.

Dazzling Patricia

If you haven't seen Patricia's book, seek it out at your bookstore. Anytime you need a magic carpet ride of inspirations,

you'll find it between her pages. Her color sense is extraordinary as are her designs.

Freerange growth

Above, the scarf Patricia launched in my workshop, here show having a growth spirt in the garden.

Yan Sun's Scarf

And Yan from Adelaid, Australia, sent me this picture taken by her husband of a scarf she knit from my free-range

pattern. She writes:

'By chance I found
your website few months ago, I fell in love with your knitwear
designs, full of freedom, no stress upon gage at all, which is often
my headache while knitting. So I tried to make a free range scarf, as
I couldn't find the yarns with exact color and texture, it turns out
totally different from your pattern, but I love it and this makes me
believe I'm able to create as well. I didn't add any beads on even I
tried hard, couldn't make it, it was replaced by a tassel. '

You certainly can create, Yan—no doubt in my mind on that score. Those colors are stunning and it's all your doing not mine. I just provide the canvas, you worked the magic. This scarf is a stunner.