tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post7159395591054745416..comments2023-10-31T15:39:09.651+01:00Comments on box elder: Knitting review of the year # 4, a purple jacket, or violet if you preferLucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-66500265581810294672014-11-19T18:54:42.845+01:002014-11-19T18:54:42.845+01:00Thanks Stella, I know you are a stellar knitter so...Thanks Stella, I know you are a stellar knitter so appreciate the compliment! I'm sure cables wouldn't really be that difficult once I took the plunge, I suppose I have an idea they require a certain kind of counting which I fear might defeat me, and I think perhaps I've an idea that they might involve a lot of stopping and fiddling which would impede fluent knitting and generally discourage me. Yet there are so many wonderful things you can do with the technique. I did just about crack the pattern; Drops patterns are sometimes problematical on account of being translated and also printed in a single block paragraph, but it wasn't really that, it was mostly following a design by counting alone because I couldn't see what was happening; if it had been the same pattern in colourwork using stranding I could have done it, or even perhaps if it had been using a yarn with better stitch definition, but the texture just didn't appear clearly enough, so I felt as if I was working blind. Counting really is my downfall I'm afraid. Most of the other Ravelry users who'd done it had no problem.<br /><br />Nimble - thanks. In fact I'm very happy with the design as it is, I think the upper part would have been too busy and bulky with the patterning. It's pilling like mad already, but that's nice soft wool for you, and it's got volume enough to spare. It's funny how fond one can be of one's sort-of failures, the horrendously ill-fitting waistcoat thing I made last year gets an enormous amount of wear.Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-2989708098051327862014-11-18T16:50:19.908+01:002014-11-18T16:50:19.908+01:00Very impressed. I like the vertical stripes and do...Very impressed. I like the vertical stripes and don't miss the other patterning. How nice that it's settling in as a useful garment. I like wearing my first sweater for the color and the v neck. I just smile at the slightly uneven sleeves and the point in the torso where I reversed my knit angle. Nimblehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16426446791363667887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-4371731103781692332014-11-18T02:30:42.231+01:002014-11-18T02:30:42.231+01:00It is hard for me to believe that someone with you...It is hard for me to believe that someone with your superior, gold-standard knitting skills should be intimidated by cables. Any of you who don't knit, please believe that Lucy is a first class knitter and an intrepid one. My hunch is that any difficulties you encountered were the fault of the pattern and not of the craftswoman. Some pattern composers are perverse!Stellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10789646495307544390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-13177564196226276052014-11-17T19:23:30.077+01:002014-11-17T19:23:30.077+01:00Thanks all.
The colour does look too blue here, I...Thanks all.<br /><br />The colour does look too blue here, I was going to say, it really is quite a true violet colour, more violet than purple but that's not a colour word we use so much in English is it?<br /><br />'Palimpsestuous' is a made-up word but not by me; if memory serves it was one that Joe and Robbie used to use about Joe's copy in their journalist days, which was a legendary awful mess by the time he'd finished with it, much to Robbie's chagrin as his sub-editor!Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-27389212069799232432014-11-17T18:59:14.686+01:002014-11-17T18:59:14.686+01:00Really gorgeous! But purple?? Unless the photo col...Really gorgeous! But purple?? Unless the photo colour is inaccurate, I'd call that blue, sort of cobalt or light ultramarine.Natalie d'Arbeloffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07757081405040926647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-42548016908463129172014-11-17T17:15:51.601+01:002014-11-17T17:15:51.601+01:00Well, I'm very impressed. It looks lovely.Well, I'm very impressed. It looks lovely.Pam https://www.blogger.com/profile/12641269043817163165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-91821979776346393012014-11-17T10:39:20.743+01:002014-11-17T10:39:20.743+01:00Wouah ! il te va comme un gant!Wouah ! il te va comme un gant!Lysehttp://lysevaine.canalblog.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-9146420936369087132014-11-17T09:35:59.849+01:002014-11-17T09:35:59.849+01:00VR once knitted me a a roll-necked sweater with ca...VR once knitted me a a roll-necked sweater with cabling in hard, greyish-white Aran wool. I say "hard" because the texture was similar to that of the gilets the police wear to stop terrorist bullets. I was amazed - and somewhat disappointed - to discover that the cabling was mechanically contrived with a cabling needle. I had expected that one simply knitted round its contortions, possibly employing one's teeth at the tricky moments. A moment when knitting dropped its mystical curtain. Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-2583255866344123812014-11-17T06:13:00.242+01:002014-11-17T06:13:00.242+01:00"palimpsestuously" has just now beat out..."palimpsestuously" has just now beat out everything else as my favourite word in the english language, real or imagined, and for that i thank you.<br /><br />love the jacket. <br /><br />the polish chickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09929281676865641560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-87567491656263763482014-11-16T21:16:20.898+01:002014-11-16T21:16:20.898+01:00Gorgeous. So is the jacket.
Especially drooling...Gorgeous. So is the jacket. <br /><br />Especially drooling over that wonderful color. Zhoenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03515663141425057088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-42164681326230679722014-11-16T21:09:38.968+01:002014-11-16T21:09:38.968+01:00Love that photo of you. So trim.Love that photo of you. So trim.Catalysthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03804837416104556928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-75613124558826522014-11-16T21:05:35.381+01:002014-11-16T21:05:35.381+01:00It looks great and i like your use of a yoga mat! ...It looks great and i like your use of a yoga mat! <br /><br />I'm not even yet at numpty level of knitting, being one who can't even cast on..... Crafty Green Poethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02486633917197181851noreply@blogger.com