Sunday, October 3, 2010
Just Starting
Sunday morning, quiet, one cat, Sophie, on the back of my chair and the other, Woozel, on the small table to my left, within easy reach. One snoozing, the other bathing, with fluffy tail slowly wagging contentedly. Very still outside, no wind, fog slowly lifting. My niece, Emi, catching up on sleep after starting her new design job this week.
A few days ago I started knitting the Typha Scarf by Christa Giles in the Fall 2010 issue of Knitscene, pg.17. It's knitted in garter stitch starting in the middle corner with 3 stitches, adding one at each side until you finish a long, flat triangle with 411 stitches. Then crochet a border. Easy, fun. The yarn they use is bronze Nyoni (wool, mohair, nylon, silk) by Fleece Artist, which I have been unable to find. One website carries it but is out. The color is a beautiful soft and subtle gradation of Fall colors, with the edging in the same color but different dye lot. Amazing because the edging is so much darker-looking. So, instead I went to my favorite local yarn store and got Classic Elite's Moorland (wool, alpaca, mohair, acrylic) in Galloway Green, a beautiful soft blue-green, with Perth Purple for the edging, an equally soft color that harmonizes with the green.
Does anyone know why patterns are created with beautiful yarns that are often impossible to find? You can usually find a substitute in weight and content, but sometimes the yarns have subtleties in color and texture that you can't match, which is why they're chosen because they're so beautiful! I have searched high and low on the Internet, international sites included. Older publications are understandable. One of my favorite books is Northern Knits by Lucinda Guy, an Interweave book published this year. As an example, there's a beautiful shawl on page 20 made with a laceweight Lodband Einband #9720 green. Usually I choose my own colors, but this pattern shows a really lovely pale, pale golden (with just the slightest hint of green, you can hardly detect it) shade that so far has been impossible to find. From examining the photos closely and reading elsewhere about the yarn, it has a very different drape than most laceweights I've seen. The color is not even listed on the company's website:
http://www.istex.is/default.asp?sid_id=47137&&tId=1&Tre_Rod=001|003|006|008|&qsr
Will write to Interweave and post their reply, if they send one.
A few days ago I started knitting the Typha Scarf by Christa Giles in the Fall 2010 issue of Knitscene, pg.17. It's knitted in garter stitch starting in the middle corner with 3 stitches, adding one at each side until you finish a long, flat triangle with 411 stitches. Then crochet a border. Easy, fun. The yarn they use is bronze Nyoni (wool, mohair, nylon, silk) by Fleece Artist, which I have been unable to find. One website carries it but is out. The color is a beautiful soft and subtle gradation of Fall colors, with the edging in the same color but different dye lot. Amazing because the edging is so much darker-looking. So, instead I went to my favorite local yarn store and got Classic Elite's Moorland (wool, alpaca, mohair, acrylic) in Galloway Green, a beautiful soft blue-green, with Perth Purple for the edging, an equally soft color that harmonizes with the green.
Does anyone know why patterns are created with beautiful yarns that are often impossible to find? You can usually find a substitute in weight and content, but sometimes the yarns have subtleties in color and texture that you can't match, which is why they're chosen because they're so beautiful! I have searched high and low on the Internet, international sites included. Older publications are understandable. One of my favorite books is Northern Knits by Lucinda Guy, an Interweave book published this year. As an example, there's a beautiful shawl on page 20 made with a laceweight Lodband Einband #9720 green. Usually I choose my own colors, but this pattern shows a really lovely pale, pale golden (with just the slightest hint of green, you can hardly detect it) shade that so far has been impossible to find. From examining the photos closely and reading elsewhere about the yarn, it has a very different drape than most laceweights I've seen. The color is not even listed on the company's website:
http://www.istex.is/default.asp?sid_id=47137&&tId=1&Tre_Rod=001|003|006|008|&qsr
Will write to Interweave and post their reply, if they send one.
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