A Palimpsest of a Creative Life: knitting, art, reading, writing, running, gardening, design, sewing, birding... http://kodachrome.blogspirit.com/film/ Mon, 24 Jul 2006 19:23:58 -0500 blogSpirit.com All Rights Reserved http://kodachrome.blogspirit.com/archive/2006/05/21/promises-promises.html http://kodachrome.blogspirit.com/archive/2006/05/21/promises-promises.html noreply@blogspirit.com (Kodachrome Fragments) Film Finished Object Knitting Sewing Sun, 21 May 2006 23:00:00 -0500 I promised more knitting content, and more greens for Project Spectrum. Can you see the green stripes in this lonely sock? Look closely...<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center"><img src="http://kodachrome.blogspirit.com/images/medium_blog_photos_011.2.jpg" alt="" style="border-width: 0; margin: 0.7em 0;" /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center"><img src="http://kodachrome.blogspirit.com/images/medium_blog_photos_012.2.jpg" alt="" style="border-width: 0; margin: 0.7em 0;" /></div><br />This is obviously one-half of a finished object. It's Nancy Bush's "Friday Harbor Socks" (<em>Knitting on the Road</em>), knit with Fortissima Sockotta (75% cotton; 25% nylon), a yarn I really enjoyed using. However, because I picked up the yarn while in San Antonio for an academic conference (while my partner waited patiently in the car for at least one hour while I browsed a great yarn store there), I've renamed these socks my "Riverwalk Socks." Can you see the Riverwalk people??<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center"><img src="http://kodachrome.blogspirit.com/images/medium_blog_photos_014.3.jpg" alt="" style="border-width: 0; margin: 0.7em 0;" /></div><br />A close-up of the toe with the lace pattern. I knit this sock on US 2 dpns.<br /><br /><br /><img src="http://kodachrome.blogspirit.com/images/medium_blog_photos_015.2.jpg" alt="" style="border-width: 0; float: left; margin: 0.2em 1.4em 0.7em 0;" /><br /><div style="text-align: center"><img src="http://kodachrome.blogspirit.com/images/medium_blog_photos_015.3.jpg" alt="" style="border-width: 0; margin: 0.7em 0;" /></div><br />The back of the sock where they go from a nifty lace-pattern front to a funky, check-out-my-stripes back.<br /><br />The socks on the left are the first pair of socks I ever knit; I made them for my partner's 31st birthday, and used Nancy Bush's "Hiiumaa Mismatched Mates" pattern. I then made myself a pair of anklets with the leftover yarn (I had purchased 2 balls of yarn) and used Nancy Bush's "Spey Valley' pattern as a guide. <div style="text-align: center"><img src="http://kodachrome.blogspirit.com/images/medium_blog_photos_017.2.jpg" alt="" style="border-width: 0; margin: 0.7em 0;" /></diva<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Et les voila! The additional "greens of summer" I had promised. These photos will be moved soon to the Off the Needles Gallery where I'll be sure to add all of the knitty-gritty details so that others can take note of what to make--or what not to make!. So stay tuned for that, and for some photo shoots of Orangina and for some great sewing fabric I recently found at a thrift store. Orangina is going so swell--I love working on this top!<br /><br />And in the meantime, go rent <em>The Station Agent</em>. A cast of characters that you'll miss dearly the moment the curtain closes.<br /><div style="text-align: center"><img src="http://kodachrome.blogspirit.com/images/medium_the_station_agent.3.jpg" alt="" style="border-width: 0; margin: 0.7em 0;" /></div><br /><br />And lastly, Go Pistons!!<br /><div style="text-align: center"><img src="http://kodachrome.blogspirit.com/images/medium_big_ben.3.jpg" alt="" style="border-width: 0; margin: 0.7em 0;" /></div><br />A mini-tribute to the Pistons' win tonight: Ah Big Ben--you're one of the reasons our late Wallace kitty was who he was...