That’s It!

April 8th, 2007

Fingerless gloves/wristwarmer thingies! My husband is so clever, and I’m going to swatch it up tonight. I’m thinking a wide 3×1 or 4×1 rib, with moss stitch at the edges. What do you think? I can’t wait to see how this yarn stripes up (quite randomly I’m sure), and if I’m quick enough I can get these finished before it really gets warm.

Also, I recently found this really awesome website that is compiling swatches. It is called The Walker Treasury Project. Excerpt from the website:

Every knitter knows that Barbara Walker’s Treasuries are indispensable. We use them constantly for designing, for help with a difficult pattern, and for pure inspiration. Sometimes, though, the mostly black-and-white and small pictures keep us from seeing the full potential of a pattern. That’s where the Walker Treasury Project comes in. We’re gathering high-quality, color photos of all the patterns in all the Treasury books (including Mosaic Knitting) and putting them on the internet as a visual aide to this wonderful collection.

So it’s a volunteer thing; people knit up a swatch of their favorite stitch patterns, take a good quality high contrast photo, and submitt it! Check it out, definitely a source of inspiration. I have fallen in love with some of the stitch patterns. Now I just need to find those books, and save up some money!

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