August 24, 2004
The Feral Report: August 23, 2004
Ferally we knit along,
knit along,
knit along
Ferally we knit along
All the fair isle way...
Well, some of us appear to need a refresher from Janine about what fair isle is. That being so, most of the knitters at the meeting were indeed knitting with two or more colors, it's just that some of them were mixed up in one yarn.
Take Margarite's stunning Colinette jacket:
Definitely more than two colors... puts us all to shame on those big needles that finish things so quickly.
Then there was Betsey, similarly engaged in a multi-colored tank from Ironstone yarns, and showing the felted purse she had knit for a niece graduating from high school:
Kit was just beginning her pooled color scarf from hand-dyed-by-her yarn. At least it is on tiny needles. 500 points for Kit!
Ryan, the Most Popular Speaker of the Seattle Knitter's Guild, had her fair isle pillow with her, but was mostly involved with working on her baby sweater. She claimed that it had been photographed to death, but little did she know that it could be....
...a real bear to finish.
June gets 5000 points for being there first, and for knitting her own version of the fair isle vest from Folk Vests on tiny needles. I simply love the curly peerie at the bottom!
Karen get lots of points, too, for her progress on Alba. Love the turqouisey color in the band, don't you?
Devorah has made awesome progress with her fair isle, the name of which escapes me. Devorah? Would you post in the comments what this is, pretty please?
And last but certainly not least, Norma was knitting at least her second one of these pretty Landscape scarves, using Lorna's Laces sock yarn:
As for me,
I knit a little bit
on the vested Dragonfly
Then hied away to home
and drank my flagon dry.
Thanks, Ferals! What Color Knitting Queens of the Jungle you are!
Posted by: Janine on August 24, 2004 01:48 PMI'm not Devorah, but let me butt in, anyway: Devorah's sweater is the "Oslo." It's the cover sweater on the Jamieson's Shetland Book 2.
Posted by: Karen the Terrible on August 24, 2004 02:12 PMOh, yeah! Thanks!
Janine, I'll tell you my terrible secrets soon... it'll be great to have a co-color-conspirator (would that be a cococo?)
Posted by: Sheila on August 24, 2004 02:25 PMIs there a baby in that baby sweater? Because i
KNOW i see little yellow baby feet and um...a tennis
ball sized head. The hair bow is cute.
tanya
I wanna live in Washington state now -big sulks!! Love rain, love wet, love cold- only hate humidity but it don't last long like here in Sydney!!!
Puts my dull knitting to shame. :-p
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