Usually new things come easily to me.
Not so much colourwork. I present for your amusement some extremely amateurishly tight stranded knitting, featured in my adaptation-for-45cm-BJD of Everything Old spinner, dyer, and designer Emma Galati’s Pevensie (which incidentally is a super sweet pattern that I foresee knitting in the intended size range some time down the road):
But let’s not dwell on the fact that I was so obviously, completely wrong when I thought it was just a bit too tight and would probably block out. Let’s not think about the fact that I’m about to frog the whole thing back. No, instead, let’s talk about how awesome the tonal variation in the two sock yarns I used for CCs looks. Let’s focus on how the subtle shading works with the already awesome motif to enhance the illusion of three-dimensionality! Because this combo of yarn and pattern is so awesome I’m not even going to try and pretend that a seed stitch ruffle was some kind of intentional finish to the garment. No, I’m going to rip it back and make this coat perfect because it deserves that kind of attention! See?
Incidentally, the red is leftover Everything Old Hopscotch from Mr. Salamander’s socks. I think I’m pretty cool, using a designer’s yarn to execute her pattern. The grey is my beloved Shibuiknits sock, and the white is Kroy and I still dislike it pretty much the most of any sock yarn I’ve knit with (thankfully this is my last ball of the stuff, and I think this pattern will pretty much use it up).
I’ve hidden my other project under a jump for those of you who don’t like to be thinking ahead to Decembery decoration yet. I mean, sure, wait ’til after Thanksgiving, right? But here in Canada that was already over a month ago, so NYAH!
Undermost Salamander Knits 