Well, it has been a while, but technology/RSI/life in general conspired to give me less scope for knitting and blogging than I'd have liked over the last 18 months or so. But thanks to a new camera (last September) and new computing equipment (this weekend), I now have fewer reasons for absence (though life remains chaotic). I've had a bit of fun experimenting with the design of the blog (still needs a few tweaks). The new header shows some rather amusing swatching that I found in my favoruite bolthole (Thaxted, Essex) earlier this year. Is it just me, or does that horizontal white line through a broad band of red look like a stop sign? The picture (which I'm using sideways here) shows the side of a very red shopfront, adjoining a very beige house. Clearly, the "beige" residents felt they needed to oomph their walls up a bit, but just what do you choose to go with megacrimson? I'm not actually convinced that it works as a header for the blog.
This leads me on to one of my favourite topics: walls. (You may already be familiar with this obsession of mine from an earlier post on my
"main" blog ). Here's a new selection of knittable walls from my recent visit to Thaxted:
This one has all sort of possibilities: vertical zig-zagging welts, or a lace pattern or....
I envisage this one as individual chevron strips joined by a three-needle bind off in a contrast colour.
Modular fan motifs, starting from the curved edge with welting, then maybe ribs for the centres. A peacock feather colour scheme might work well here!
Textured chequereboard. Somewhere I do actually have some swatches based on this one.
Next, a spectacular (albeit rather stained) wall that I spotted in Saffron Walden. Lots of possibilities for textured knitting!
And a close up, from a different section of the same wall:
And now, back to work!
