Hoop-la
(Short today; work overload. More tomorrow, and maybe pictures -- Sam's been asking if I need some. Occasionally he looks at my knitting and says, "we haven't taken a picture of that lately." So I figure we're overdue.)
I get emails giving me news on the progress on the Knitting Tarot, so I knew that Amber and Megan were working on the knitting equivalent of XIV, "Temperance," before it showed up on the website, and had some time to think about it.
I could NOT imagine what Amber was going to come up with. Impossible card. How to translate alchemy into knitting?
Intarsia, that's how. Differing yarns melded seamlessly -- not so that they become mixed (as happens if two yarns are held together), but so that they are clearly differentiated, but create a fabric together.
Hoop-la.
I like the way the join line of intarsia gives the feel of balance, not just of connection, and keeps the integrity of the separate forces -- yarns, in this case -- even though the join is itself part of the fabric.
Intarsia -- all about the joining.
I get emails giving me news on the progress on the Knitting Tarot, so I knew that Amber and Megan were working on the knitting equivalent of XIV, "Temperance," before it showed up on the website, and had some time to think about it.
I could NOT imagine what Amber was going to come up with. Impossible card. How to translate alchemy into knitting?
Intarsia, that's how. Differing yarns melded seamlessly -- not so that they become mixed (as happens if two yarns are held together), but so that they are clearly differentiated, but create a fabric together.
Hoop-la.
I like the way the join line of intarsia gives the feel of balance, not just of connection, and keeps the integrity of the separate forces -- yarns, in this case -- even though the join is itself part of the fabric.
Intarsia -- all about the joining.
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