Did you know that the color wheel you learned about in school is not the only one? Most of us were taught that the primary colors are red, yellow and blue (RYB). We mixed those to make the secondary colors of green, orange and purple, and went on from there. But that’s just a starting place! There are other color… Continue Reading Color wheels to spinning wheels
Continue reading →Just a quick couple of photos to show some actual progress… I’m closing in on 2 inches in length, and it is starting to look like the real thing! You can see how the background colors here are shading from green through blue. I’m on the sixth of nine colors, and am happy with the subtlety of the color changes.… Continue Reading Ithilien progress, a week later
Continue reading →I told you I would, so I had to take the plunge. My new circular needles from KnitPicks arrived, and I cast on the Ithilien Brocade Jacket. 348 stitches per round, plus 8 steek stitches. Times about 8 rows per inch. I’m really, really hoping that I got the gauge measured correctly and did all the math right, because I’d… Continue Reading The ‘honeymoon’ begins…
Continue reading →Okay, I’m going out on a limb here… I’ve decided to do quite a bit of “show and tell” as I’m working through the design for my current major project. This is a bit risky, because of course I can’t guarantee how it’s going to turn out, or how many false paths I’ll be starting down (and then backtracking), but… Continue Reading Design-in-progress: Ithilien Brocade
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