Week #1 progress shot of Sant'Angelo. I love everything about this project. I also love working with the yarn cones. Just set them on the floor and go. They stay where you put them and don't bounce around like skeins, reducing tangling. No changing balls, either. I'm thinking of stranded knitting a lot lately, as I'm also reading this book, wherein she describes knitting Alice Starmore's Mary Tudor sweater over the course of a year. I'm having dreams of windswept landscapes dotted with sheep. I love the rhythmic binary process of two colour work. Kate has expressed this experience wonderfully here.
I am also in the midst of painting vast areas of ceiling and walls. My livingroom, diningroom, stairway and upstairs hall were painted a uniform soul-deadening browny-grey by the previous owner of my house. I have learned it was his attempt to eliminate the visual noise of the 1970's era colours of the owner previous to him. But I am ashamed at myself for having lived with it for 6 years with the feeble excuse it was done right before we got here. Now it's becoming a fresh canvas of warm white. I need new artwork now. And some new furniture. Out with the old, I say.
Happy weekend.
oh, chris, this is breathtaking. can't wait to see more.
ReplyDeleteVery beautifull, you did a lot this week.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous Chris! You always do such beautiful work. Kudos to you for repainting. I so need to do that also. Maybe after the holidays. :) Hope you are having a great weekend. :)
ReplyDeleteYou are SO talented. I can't believe it. What a gorgeous piece of fabric you have created. Stranded work requires so much patience. Hope you are having a great weekend. I am still trying to destress from the masses of work I have had lately.
ReplyDeleteThe progress you have made on your sweater is gorgeous. I tend to stay away from colorowork because I dislike wrangling balls of yarn but the cones sound great. Having that extra weight to keep the yarn in one place must make it so much easier! Best of luck on a quick finish.
ReplyDeleteyou are making me wish i had more time to knit!!!!
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