Good Saturday morning to you. Again it’s a gray Oregon morning – not at all surprising for this time of year. Hubby is watching an episode of The Great Courses on Shakespeare. He loves his subscription to The Great Courses Plus so he can learn about anything that catches his imagination, whenever he wants!
We’ve finished our coffee…and I don’t have a design on the needles right now, but I do have ideas flitting around my brain.
I’ve ordered the sampler set of all 150 colors of Knit Picks fingering weight yarn, Palette. One Hundred and Fifty colors of fingering weight yarn! Squee!!! Quite truthfully, I’ve always had it in mind to redesign the Willamette Valley Tee (which is now out of print) as a round yoked sweater in multiple sizes. It takes lots of colors, and I spent a lot of time and money trying to determine the right colors for the first pattern, so having these 150 colors to choose from should make that aspect of designing go more smoothly.
The one aspect of the design that I anticipate will be a challenge is how to make the single flower motif fit into a round yoke correctly, taking into account its size and the increases needed for the yoke to fit well. I’m looking forward to having the time during my upcoming vacation to really sit down to crunch the numbers, make some drawings, and work on the charting. Yay for vacation!!
Other good news is that I have used that single flower motif in an upcoming cowl pattern! I’m very happy with the cowl – it’s a bright and colorful graphic design. It’s planned to be released in Jan/Feb as part of a collection with several other designers. We all had the same 6 stitch patterns from which to choose and then expand upon, so it will be fun to see how each person was inspired by something different and how our imaginations ran in different directions. For now, I have to keep that design under wraps…
Thank you to everyone who has joined the pumpkin fun in our third annual Pumpkin-a-Long! The PAL continues through Thanksgiving (November 25). I know many of you are now thinking of Christmas gift knitting, but if you are wanting to add to your Thanksgiving/Fall décor before then, our pumpkin designs knit up pretty quickly. To enter the PAL and be eligible for prizes, please email a picture of your finished pumpkin to knitequalsjoy@gmail.com or post it on Instagram with #pumpkinalong2020 and @knitequalsjoy.
Here are the PAL patterns:
And just for fun, Green Pumpkins…a montage. Two minutes of green pumpkin zen:
I’ve had two of my patterns, Ethereal Sweater and Little Ethereal Sweater translated into Spanish. The new upcoming cowl pattern will also be translated into Spanish. I’m looking into having Willow Poncho translated into French. If having any of my patterns translated would make a difference for you, please let me know. Thank you!
I’ll leave you with a picture of the new sample of the Colorwork Pumpkin I finished right before Halloween. It’s modified from the pattern in two ways: I made the base of this one striped, by making alternating 2-row stripes, and I used duplicate stitching on the hourglass shape on the spiders. These modifications were a big hit.
Thank you, everyone. Until next time…
xoxo
Carol
“Knit your hearts with an unslipping knot”. William Shakespeare
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