Holly Shaltz wrote:
I rumaged through my stash and found the sample pack of the dyed Haltwhistle wool tops yesterday. There's 16 colors, slightly over 1 ounce each. I don't have a clue what to make with them, though!
The Knitters purse book has a purse made with 4 modular blocks on each side. Also a purse with stripes got me to thinking about using fibonaci <sp?> sequences with colors. I am working on one with 4 colors and 4 blocks. The same idea should work with 8 or 16 blocks and any item that a pound of fiber is enough.
I keep thinking of spinning random amounts of each color in turn, then Navajo plying it, and then doing some sort of modular knitting, where the color changes would show to advantage, and spread out the differences of hue and value, but I'm not sure. For one thing, this wool needs LOTS of twist to hold together--the usual problem of commercial top, the crimp seems to be processed right out of it--but the wool isn't all that soft, and I always hesitate adding a lot of twist to wool that isn't very soft.
I find some of the crimp appears when I dye top. Perhaps soaking the top in hot water would have the same effect.
And then I never did find any resources for knitting shapes other than squares and rectangles on the Internet in modular knitting.
Ginger Luters modular knitting book uses triangles with a right angle and triangles with 2 equal sides.
Joanne
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