Throwing cold water on it
Wednesday October 18th 2017, 9:14 pm
Filed under: Friends,Knitting a Gift,Life

I do really like this.

But…. I don’t know if T’s grandma has been allowed back in yet to see if her house is still there…

When I picked up this skein at Cottage Yarns, Kathryn commented that it looked like one dyelot from one side and another on the other; I said that’s why I wanted to know what it would look like. (That and I liked the colors).

I was expecting the bright and the dark to intersperse going across the rows, and for the most part they did. And yet somehow there became this stark division between the narrower darker top of the cowl at the beginning and there below the midpoint.

It’s drying right now and maybe that dampens the effect for the photo, but: it’s too easy to look at this and see bright fiery flames shooting up into the sky with the darkened ash and smoke rising up from them. Yow.

Um, maybe someone else should get this one and I should start over.


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I see what you mean: gorgeous colour, lovely cowl but yes… The flames and the dark sky.

Did you enjoy the process though?

Comment by Suzanne in Montreal 10.19.17 @ 5:23 am

And then again, it is beautiful color rising from the dark ashes? It’s lovely.

Comment by DebbieR 10.19.17 @ 7:08 am

What DebbieR said – turn it the other way around! It’s beautiful.

Comment by twinsetellen 10.19.17 @ 4:18 pm



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