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For me, colour and texture rule and most of the inspiration feeding my imagination comes from the natural world. I see knitting as art, as viable as any other, and no matter what the tool or preferred palette, in human hands, magic happens. Jane Email: jane@janethornley.com
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Recent Blog Entries
Saturday, January 19, 2008Brewing Purple with the Bronze…
Moody Melange
By the pricking of my thumbs (double pointed needles?), something purply this way comes. Well, purple with copper and bronze, actually, a combination that stirs these dregs of winter days into a more platable brew for me. And, if I really had to knit-pick, it's a very pinky purple bordering on magenta but with enough multi-colored fusions to keep things from getting too one-dimensional. The lead yarn is the Blue Blue Heron 'Old Gold' you see hanging around amid the beadery. I may have to give that yarn up: it's too hard to get. These hues have been passing through my fingers both in yarn and in beads. Here's the hues hue of purply bronzy goldy things:
Autumn sun gilding a cone flower
Arroyo Seco, New Mexico, in the winter (picture by Elise Lemoine)
A Bermudian Sunset
These are the colors of my inspiration. What unfolds upon my needles, or had been until I put it aside for more pressing matters, is a loose cardigan designed with slim sleeves, something I imagine us wearing year 'round. However, with Stitches West looming on the horizon I've been channeling my knitting towards finishing Culture Fushion before the big event. I have the wrap version worked and now I'm onto a scarf variation but my heart still yearns for the sublimely purply. Culture fusion is a very tribal mix of onyx, carnelian and cream. Oh, by the way, please don't hesitate to leave me a comment even though it won't show up right away. Thanks to SPAM postings advertising expansion schemes for various parts of anatomy I don't have, I've had to approve postings first. Coming up next post....Venice! |
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