I used a wide variety of yarn, mostly wool but some cotton and some mixes. Most of the wool came from remaindered yarn at Coles of Sheffield but there were some lovely yarns from Germany and some that seem to have been in my yarn stores for ever.
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| As part of the Pearoom 1999 Knitting Competition and related exhibition I was asked to knit a jacket to be raffled at the end of the exhibition. During May and July I gave a series of knitting demonstrations on Sunday afternoons at the Pearoom so visitors could see the jacket as it progressed. | |
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I settled on a Summer Garden as my design brief and isolated two colour groups- the blue, violet and purple group and the orange, red and crimson group with yellow, white and green in both. I also felt that I wanted to use effects of light and shade, with strong contrasts between light and dark. |
| The main body was knitted from front to centre back with the centre areas being lighter than the sides. The sleeves were knitted from the wrist upward, the colours moving from light to dark. There was a yoke of shades of green. | |
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I used slip stitch and stitches in which colourcan be alternated, finding
the instructions in the Barbara Walker books. There was only one place
in the whole jacket where I used more than one colour in a row. As a result
the jacket is not as heavy as a similar effect got with two colour knitting.
I used a wide variety of yarn, mostly wool but some cotton and some mixes. Most of the wool came from remaindered yarn at Coles of Sheffield but there were some lovely yarns from Germany and some that seem to have been in my yarn stores for ever. |