Wordless Wednesday: Stonework
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Wordless Wednesday: Why It Belongs in a Knitting Blog
When I first started the Wordless Wednesday feature, my main goal was to have a weekly feature and to be able to share my love of photography. However, as time has passed, I see that the photos and themes I choose definitely tie in with my knitting and designing, more significantly with the latter.
The first installment, Wordless Wednesday – Well, Nearly…, was mainly an introduction to the feature and, perhaps, to me.
Three of the Wordless Wednesday stories deal with a huge inspiration for me: color. Color for me is visceral; beautiful color, whether a single hue or several in combination, elevates. Wordless Wednesday: Monochrome, Wordless Wednesday: Multi (1) (because I fully expect there to be further “Multi” stories), and Wordless Wednesday: Green. These beautiful colors inspire my knitting and my design ethic.
Wordless Wednesday: Texture (Beach), Wordless Wednesday: Water, and even Wordless Wednesday: World’s Smallest Harbor explore texture and light, which always, always inform my designs.
I discovered this beach, Gleneden Beach, which is on the Salishan Spit, the year before the Salishan Cowl pattern was written. I was so shocked and delighted to discover that we had a black sand (or dark sand, at any rate) beach in Oregon. How could I have lived here for over twenty years and not have known we had such a beach?!? The wind- and surf-made texture in the sand was a direct inspiration for this cowl.
Wordless Wednesday: Faves and Wordless Wednesday: Colorwork are about beautiful things that are inspiring to me. I love how these two disparate photos contain nearly the same colors:
Wordless Wednesday: What They’re Looking At ponders point of view. The subjects of these photos are intently looking at something, thinking about it and taking it in. The practice of taking the time to examine something in depth often leads to design inspiration, at least for me.
This week’s post will be Wordless Wednesday: Stonework. Recently we visited the grounds of the Historic Columbia Gorge Hotel and Silver Falls State Park, both of which feature some beautiful stonework. I was taken with the beautiful warm colors within the stonework and the play of light on the surface of the stones. One of my favorite photos is of a stonework drinking fountain (!). I love that a basic, everyday object was made into a beautiful work of art…and that’s what I attempt to do with my knitwear designs.
Wordless Wednesdays serve to share stories with you about what I’m seeing and thinking about, and they serve to keep me rooted in the images – the colors, textures, emotions and impressions – that inspire me.
Thanks for checking in and taking the time to visit!!
Wordless Wednesday: Colorwork
Camera Lucida – Autumn Lane
The Challenge:
This week’s theme: Autumn Lane
1. the season after summer and before winter, in the northern hemisphere from September to November and in the southern hemisphere from March to May.
2. a division of a road marked off with painted lines and intended to separate single lines of traffic according to speed or direction.
This week your challenge is to interpret autumn…the lane that separates the end of summer and the beginning of fall. Capture the beautiful colours of trees…the ripe and tasty autumn harvest…the fine cross line between worlds that are so close but so far apart…
The possibilities are endless…show your artistic side and be bold…try different perspectives and share your own personal take on one of the most beautiful seasons that transforms nature into an unforgettable painting.
This is my most autumnal pattern yet. I went out at dusk one November evening last year to find some leaves and some light. The fall colors were amazing, and I have some pictures of this little pumpkin in and amongst beautiful red and golden leaves, but this photo is my favorite for this photo challenge. I love that it’s an almost literal rendering of the challenge.
I have to add that I love fall. I love the colors. I love days like yesterday, when it was cool enough to bundle up in a warm sweater, yet I could still feel some warmth from the sun. I love looking forward to Halloween, my birthday, Thanksgiving and Christmas. I love the flavors of pumpkin, apple cider, hot cocoa. I even love football! Mostly I love the warm light of the autumn sun’s slanting rays and the way it turns everything golden in the evening.
Check out Julia’s My Red Page‘s weekly Camera Lucida Photo Challenge.
Julia’s instructions state:
The content of the post is completely down to you, share just the photo or be even more creative and tell us the story behind the scene, make it your own.
#cameralucida, Autumn Lane
Camera Lucida – The Colour of Life
This week’s theme: The Colour of Life
- Colour – the property possessed by an object of producing different sensations on the eye as a result of the way it reflects or emits light.
- Life – a particular type or aspect of human existence
As a knitwear designer, this photo sums it up for me. I love the play of color and light within the photo…my design life centers around color, light, and the tools of the trade, along with imagination, texture, yarn, and thought.
This is my second entry in Julia’s My Red Page‘s weekly Camera Lucida Photo Challenge.
#cameralucida, Camera Lucida – The Colour of Life
Wordless Wednesday: What They’re Looking At
Just a note: I posted this week’s Wordless Wednesday early because I’m planning a special knitting-related post tomorrow.
Wordless Wednesday: World’s Smallest Harbor
Camera Lucida – The Sign
World’s Smallest Harbor
Depoe Bay is not far from our home, about an hour and a half away. It’s a cute town: fun shopping, nice restaurants, whale watching. This sign caught my eye today. I know that Depoe Bay is the world’s smallest harbor, but when I actually think about its being the smallest harbor in the world…well, that’s something. It was quite busy, too. A steady stream of boats was going in and out of the harbor the entire time we were there. I am sort of fond of The World’s Smallest Harbor.
This is my first entry in Julia’s My Red Page‘s weekly Camera Lucida Photo Challenge.
Julia’s instructions state:
The content of the post is completely down to you, share just the photo or be even more creative and tell us the story behind the scene, make it your own.
I was looking for something ironic for this challenge, but The World’s Smallest Harbor seems to fit the bill just as well.
#cameralucida, Camera Lucida – The Sign
Here’s a related post, Wordless Wednesday: World’s Smallest Harbor, with more pictures of Depoe Bay. It includes an impromptu video I shot of a couple of boats zipping in and out of the channel. You can see how narrow the channel really is. It is my first video, so please don’t expect cinematographic excellence! 😉
Wordless Wednesday: Faves
Wordless Wednesday: Green
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