Comments on: Unusual Fair Isle http://www.heatherknits.com/blog/2009/05/14/unusual-fair-isle/ Where Heather waffles on about knitting and anything else which crosses her mind. Sun, 25 Jul 2010 11:32:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Daisy http://www.heatherknits.com/blog/2009/05/14/unusual-fair-isle/comment-page-1/#comment-24744 Daisy Thu, 28 May 2009 20:13:10 +0000 http://www.heatherknits.com/blog/?p=632#comment-24744 That is very cool! I hadn't quite clicked that i was doing fair isle whilst knitting my tea cozy! That is very cool! I hadn’t quite clicked that i was doing fair isle whilst knitting my tea cozy!

]]> By: kbsalazar http://www.heatherknits.com/blog/2009/05/14/unusual-fair-isle/comment-page-1/#comment-24742 kbsalazar Wed, 20 May 2009 18:25:08 +0000 http://www.heatherknits.com/blog/?p=632#comment-24742 Very cool! Experiments are to make one think, and even if they don't always turn out as originally envisioned, the thinking is the most important part of the process. It's fun to see you think! :) You can also achieve some interesting, experiment-worthy results in the same vein as your wool/cotton swatch using a combo of 100% wool and superwash wool or blend yarns of the same weight, then washing the swatch deliberately trying to shrink the vulnerable wool. If the chosen design's field is non-shrink superwash, criss crossed by diagonals of single stitch shrinking wool you can end up with a texture that looks like puffy mushroom cap gathers. Another fun play with stranding is to sometimes leave the strands on the right side of the work, using them as part of the overall patterning. In any case, thank you for sharing your experiments (and making me think, too) -K. Very cool! Experiments are to make one think, and even if they don’t always turn out as originally envisioned, the thinking is the most important part of the process. It’s fun to see you think! :)

You can also achieve some interesting, experiment-worthy results in the same vein as your wool/cotton swatch using a combo of 100% wool and superwash wool or blend yarns of the same weight, then washing the swatch deliberately trying to shrink the vulnerable wool. If the chosen design’s field is non-shrink superwash, criss crossed by diagonals of single stitch shrinking wool you can end up with a texture that looks like puffy mushroom cap gathers.

Another fun play with stranding is to sometimes leave the strands on the right side of the work, using them as part of the overall patterning.

In any case, thank you for sharing your experiments (and making me think, too) -K.

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