Prism Break!
New pattern alert! Alison Bjornson aka @oolawoola just published her first ever pattern, Prism Break.
This pattern was designed specifically for my self-patterning SHAWL yarn. It's shown here in Skaha, and will work with any of Skaha's sister colourways from the Knit Outside collection.
Lisa's Sweater
Preparing your Saxe Point Yarn
- Wind the two solid colours in their own balls, so you can easily pull from them for the heels/toes/cuffs.
- Wind the striped portion into one ball. Knit your first sock, and then, for matching socks, pull off yarn until you see your starting colour again.
There are ten stripes in the sequence (5 greys, 5 tan/brown/peach for Saxe Point) and the sequence repeats six times. So there are 60 stripes in total. If you would like to divide the stripes into two separate balls, you can count the colour changes to find the halfway point.
Knit Outside
It's here! My Knit Outside collection with Andrea Rangel is available for pre-order!
Along with the original three projects from our summer 2017 club, I've created new colourways for all three patterns: Goldstream, Saxe Point, and North Shore.
I've also got a limited number of the beautiful print copies of Andrea's pattern collection. The print copy includes an ebook and is actually priced slightly lower than the ebook alone (thank you exchange rate!) so don't miss out!
The patterns are also available individually through Ravelry or Andrea's website.
July club project: Full Spectrum
It's time to share our July project from my summer yarn + pattern club with Andrea Rangel: Full Spectrum!
It's a reversible toque with two different approaches to colourwork - a self-striping rainbow on one side and stranded colourwork on the other.
Behind the Scenes: Shadow Prism
The first pattern in our 2018 Summer Club, Shadow Prism, started out with this text between me and Andrea:
It's a picture of a skylight, with the recessed wall reflected against the blue sky in the window. It definitely needs to be a shawl. A 2D shawl with the right colours and angles to create a 3D effect.
We talked about a few practical limitations - 600 yds of fingering weight, needs to be a wearable shape, stitch pattern should help emphasize the construction and the 3D effect. Nothing too fiddly, let the yarn do the colour changes for you.
Andrea did a few swatches while I worked away at a colour palette. I don't have pictures of Andrea's first swatches, but she started with a mitered square construction and then considered how to join in other colours without using intarsia.
For the colours, we both liked the blues and yellows in the original skylight picture, but they felt too close to North Shore, one of our club colourways from 2017. So instead I aimed for a sunset-inspired colourway.
A couple coffee dates later, we had these:
Not bad, right? I especially like that first one with the ribbing, but we didn't feel it had enough 3D oomph to it. A little more pondering and sketching:
We finally decided on a shape that had the effect we wanted, and that made sense on the technical side of writing a pattern and dyeing yarn.
SHEBAM!
And then some more back and forth, ironing out details. The two of us living in the same city made this collaboration possible - being able to physically touch the same samples and hand off skeins of yarn at the coffee shop made it happen.
And then, whala, a scarf! (Andrea is a fast knitter.)
June club project: Shadow Prism
I'm excited to share June's project from my summer yarn + pattern club with Andrea Rangel. Shadow Prism is a scarf but it's also an optical illusion - Andrea and I collaborated on the design and colours so the finished object looks like a 3D box.
This is exclusive to the club until fall 2019 but the good news is that our patterns and yarn from the 2017 club will be available in a couple months.
