Hi everyone: Trust Holly to give us inspiration when we need it - although reading that lengthy agenda makes me feel like I've been sitting on my hands!
Actually, I must have been doing just that in September, because I've fallen so far behind in my silk work that I have not even begun the fun I promised myself as a reward: working with the beautiful angora Holly sent me. I keep it right where I can see and touch it. Incentive!! Next week I'll be doing a fiber artist residency for the art museum in Scranton. I've participated in various programs for them before, but this will be the first one off-site. I'll be in the waiting room at a hospital, spinning, demonstrating, chatting, anything that will provide a pleasant distraction to people who would otherwise be watching the clock and worrying. Hope I don't let them down :-( (I can't sing or dance worth a sh*t!) > Any ideas on how to make > two fronts (this will be on the knitting machine, there's not enough > time in my life to knit myself a sweater by hand) that look > interesting, > with lots of blocks of color that *don't* look horizontal? It's been light years since I used a KM - mine was sacrificed to fund the motorized Bev - but I can recall a few interesting little "cheats". First, does your machine do patterns, even just the punchcard kind? You can do little Fair Isle motifs either as bands on their own or as the top and bottom edges of color blocks, although they do use up yarn pretty quickly. Another way is to use slip stitch patterns that make two rows look like four, or even a tuck pattern. They vary the surface in addition to breaking up the color and are a little more thrifty in the use of yarn. Gotta start digging through the stash now for ideas on what to take to the ER. I think I'll focus on silk. People here are already pretty clued in on wool. Any ideas you have would be welcome Carol To stop mail temporarily mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: set nomail To restore send: set mail
