since mid-december i've been on a bit of a craft tear. i'd been in a bit of a creative lull, but i got a request from roberta for a green scarf. my friend petra turned me onto some amazing yarn: rowan cocoon: merino wool and kid mohair. SOOOOFT! then, she showed me a terrific pattern: kim hargreaves' "haven."roberta and i exchanged a flurry of texts while i was in the yarn store re: color and yarn weight. after "green," "chunky" and "city over sporty" she gave me license to knit what i wanted. now that she's received it in the mail, i'll post some pix.
this is a close up of the lace pattern.
(the fabric behind it is the back of a quilt i made)
---> in this shot you can see how long the scarf is. that is a queen size bed! for the record: i did NOT make that quilt. it's from the company store. :)
i knit this scarf in coffee houses across los feliz, silver lake, chicago, new york, and coast to coast on virgin airlines.
back to it: this scarf stoked my creative bug. since i started it, i've also been working on a beret made of pale green alpaca (oh lord, again with the softness!), some covered baby hangers for baby hoover, come close to finishing the supa-bright kids' quilt, and made this rad bag from an urban craft center pattern:
i love the bee fabric. it's lined with some purple fabric from the stash in my closet. woo!one last highlight: i've been pulling together some pix of my old quilt and knitting projects. this is a baby sweater i knit for roberta's son, beck:
that is a slice of buttered toast. r & i were housemates at humboldt. properly preparing toast was an art form in our apt. :)
this sweater is the first project i knit using the intarsia method. the pic is off-center. alas. there is a companion sweater to this: features an eggplant.
(if any of you have a pic of this one, let me know!)
also: this morning i decided what phrase will go on the bright kids' quilt.
i'd been waffling between "i will not fail you rainbow chicken" and "there will be snacks!" when i woke up this morning i was singing andrew bird's "tables and chairs." so.
as a bonus, that phrase always makes me think of my friend, natalie. :)
4 comments:
amazing collection of handiwork e.
just keep inserting toast into wearable items and the world will rise to celebrate you. nice proflicity
thanks for the proflicity call back!
the wallet i carry features this guy:
http://www.theimaginaryworld.com/page3.html
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I LOVE my scarf. It is so beautiful and means so much to me because you made it. Thank you! xoxo
And the toast sweater...I'm keeping it forever. beck still wears the coffee bean hat!
LOVE!
terrific! i thought it would be different than you were expecting, so didn't know if you would dig it. :)
that coffee bean hat was a bit big, wasn't it? :D
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