Sunday, September 23, 2007
First Light, First Sign…Fall Cometh
Morning light breaks over the steps winding their way down to my house and, from the kitchen window, I witness the season's first turning leaf. Every year my reaction is the same: delight mixed with intense regret. Two weeks ago, I realized how quiet the skies had grown and then realized our hummingbirds had gone. The osprey kids are no longer practicing fishing 101 overhead. The blackbirds made their exit without saying goodbye and the tiny song sparrows no longer warble me awake. I look out my window as I write and acknowledge there's a golden tinge to the maples and, for the first time in a long while, I'm getting soup cravings. Squash soup. Pumpkin soup.
Outside in my garden, more signs of fall...
Rudebeckia Butterfly (hey, this is color coordination!)
Four Winds Wrap on my Deck (hey, do you like my Spanish shoes?)
Burning Bush smokin'
I'm putting up jewelry photos today so please check my jewelry section for more pictures.
Posted by Jane on 09/23 at 06:36 AM
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Monday, September 17, 2007
FOUR WINDS WRAP—NEW PATTERN IN HONOR OF AUTUMN
Leaf Detail
It's time to succumbe to autumn in all its glory. Lush, a ripening feast of golds, russets and oranges, what's not to celebrate? My tribute comes in a glory of a wrap glimmering in fall colors, bedecked with leaves (four altogether) that are beaded and dangled singing and knit in symphony of flowing stitches.
Though, in truth, only your attitude makes this design challenging. Make it as complex or easy as you want, as big or small as you desire. Skip the leaves and tie on beribboned streamers or bypass the intarsia motif in favor of garter or continued drop and seed. In free-range knitting, the spirit moves you and every created item is one of a kind. THERE SIMPLY IS NO WRONG WAY.
One end has three lead dangles... Stitches used: seed, garter, drop, yarn over, i-cord and slip stitch (for the 3-dimensional leaves). The drop stitches create an open, flowing wrap with a lovely drape.
Remember that knitting free-range style requires a different approach than regular, pattern-driven knitting. For one thing, it’s necessary to release your expectations of achieving an outcome EXACTLY LIKE THE ORIGINAL. Free range knitting is about following your own knitting spirit and letting go. Make your creation uniquely your own (with a little help from me along the way), using a process as loose and flowing as the design itself.
Pattern is posted here: http://www.janethornley.com/patterns_wraps.html#12
Also, paper copies of most of my patterns are now available in paper format from Earth Faire here: http://www.earthfaire.com/ . Four Winds will be available there within a few weeks
Posted by Jane on 09/17 at 09:22 AM
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