Re: Ombre Wrap Seed Stitch Transition
"Eye-searing" LOLOLOL!
Nilda
On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 10:58 AM Jenny Swanson < jenny@...> wrote:
That looks very successful. I love the colours, as you say all the options for that wrap look good (although at this time of year I definitely like the brighter ones best).
Jenny
On 13 January 2020 at 14:27 "mary_007usa via Groups.Io" <sewgood5=[email protected]> wrote:
Here's a photo of the seed stitch transition zone in the Ombre Wrap.? Just a generous inch of seed stitch, alternating colors every row.? It won't bee noticed on a galloping horse, so I'm happy with it.? That pink is eye searing, but makes me smile.
Mary.
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I haven’t seen the other films, but am right there with you on Little Women. It’s just gorgeous, and beautifully acted. And you need two hankies, one for the serious weeping and the other for the times all through the picture where you
suddenly tear up briefly.
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Well, I did, anyhow.
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Lise in NJ
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We saw Bombshell and liked it - although some characters were so poorly defined I kept thinking - “is that the husband? The producer? Someone else?”?
Two movie recs from me: Little Women - which will have you dissolving into a puddle. And Just Mercy, which is about Bryan Stevenson, one of my heroes. Also light on insight into him (he’s not self-revealing in any way) but it richly details
the Jamie Foxx character, who Stevenson defends.?
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On Jan 11, 2020, at 5:19 AM, mary_007usa via Groups.Io <sewgood5@...> wrote:
I've been doing a little swatch and I think that what I'll try is to alternate colors on each row:? seed stitch a row (195 stitches so it may take awhile), push Color A to the other end, and seed stitch a row of Color B.
I think the result may be even less stripey.? The colors are close in hue until I reach the lightest ones, so this may further blur the transition.? It may have the added benefit of a thinner edge in the transition area.
Mary.
PS? I saw Bombshell yesterday.? I wasn't expecting it to be that great, but it was one of the best of the last 12 months.? Charlize Theron was magnetic.? Nicole Kidman was solid, but Charlize just melted into Megan Kelly's cool hard demeanor perfectly.? Margot
Robbie also top drawer - she is on fire this year.
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Re: Ombre Wrap Seed Stitch Transition
That looks very successful. I love the colours, as you say all the options for that wrap look good (although at this time of year I definitely like the brighter ones best).
Jenny
On 13 January 2020 at 14:27 "mary_007usa via Groups.Io" <sewgood5@...> wrote:
Here's a photo of the seed stitch transition zone in the Ombre Wrap.? Just a generous inch of seed stitch, alternating colors every row.? It won't bee noticed on a galloping horse, so I'm happy with it.? That pink is eye searing, but makes me smile.
Mary.
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Ombre Wrap Seed Stitch Transition
Here's a photo of the seed stitch transition zone in the Ombre Wrap.? Just a generous inch of seed stitch, alternating colors every row.? It won't bee noticed on a galloping horse, so I'm happy with it.? That pink is eye searing, but makes me smile.
Mary.
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Re: Lame Question, Seed Stitch Edition
I wasn't very original.? I did the original Hot Pink.? The Plum is gorgeous and probably much more wearable than the pink, but since it's a complete indulgence, I indulged on the color too.? I love almost every color.? Even the Vermillion is beautiful; it just smoulders.
Mary.
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Never occurred to me that you’d put anyone off! ? NB I envy you that ombre wrap, I look at it often but the customs tax would make it so much more expensive. I might go and see if I could put together a similar scheme from stash – I guess now I’ve turned 61 I should stop hoarding the stash and start using it ? Remind me which colorway you went for? ?
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Subject: Re: [yarnmongers] Lame Question, Seed Stitch Edition ? I agree, Jenny.? I hope I didn't put anyone off. I certainly didn't mean to do that.? I just love going to almost every genre of move with the exception of films where the focus is blowing things (and humans) up.? Just give me the third row with a bag of popcorn every time.? Would I see LW again?? Certainly I would and I would probably see something different at the second screening.
PS? Changing colors every other row and pushing the completed row to the opposite end of the circ has been perfect to smooth the colors transitions.? Greatly improved results.
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I agree, Jenny.? I hope I didn't put anyone off. I certainly didn't mean to do that.? I just love going to almost every genre of move with the exception of films where the focus is blowing things (and humans) up.? Just give me the third row with a bag of popcorn every time.? Would I see LW again?? Certainly I would and I would probably see something different at the second screening.
PS? Changing colors every other row and pushing the completed row to the opposite end of the circ has been perfect to smooth the colors transitions.? Greatly improved results.
Mary.
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I’m a long established lover of the “Little Women” books, I’ve read everything L.M. Alcott ever wrote (including those stories full of city low life)and I’ve seen every adaptation going. I was surprised to see a new version of L.W. so soon after the last one but I did think this new one was terrific in pointing out the importance of several underlying issues about the story without “spoiling” its traditional elements. And I did like to see Marmee played as she should be, as a woman we would now consider young, ie barely 40 if that (which did seem old when we were reading the book as kids), with strong feelings to match her strong principles. If this puts you off, don’t let it – go and see and enjoy. Several of my daughters/nieces, who staunchly refused to read past the start of Little Women and barely endured previous films, have loved it and are still talking ?about the issues? arising from it. And I really enjoyed it too. ? Jenny ?
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Subject: Re: [yarnmongers] Lame Question, Seed Stitch Edition ? Amy, had the same Bombshell problem!
I hate to admit it, but I dozed (a little) during Little Women, but I also enjoyed it.? They freshened the story without doing violence to it and they rode the line without preaching about women's rights.? Costume and sets were lovely.?
? I had some issues with the casting, not the acting.? 1.? I don't know how any woman, young or old, would fall for Laurie, let alone two women in the same film.? If he's going to get blazing drunk, he's got to have at least a dab of sex appeal to rise above just being a dweeb.??? 2.? Amy, well acted, but Mamma Mia, what a Basso Profondo voice.? These small things distracted me.
Saw 1917 today.? Visually arresting.? Simplistic story, but with this film it wasn't about the story.? It was getting the viewer there.
Mary
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Amy, had the same Bombshell problem!
I hate to admit it, but I dozed (a little) during Little Women, but I also enjoyed it.? They freshened the story without doing violence to it and they rode the line without preaching about women's rights.? Costume and sets were lovely.?
? I had some issues with the casting, not the acting.? 1.? I don't know how any woman, young or old, would fall for Laurie, let alone two women in the same film.? If he's going to get blazing drunk, he's got to have at least a dab of sex appeal to rise above just being a dweeb.??? 2.? Amy, well acted, but Mamma Mia, what a Basso Profondo voice.? These small things distracted me.
Saw 1917 today.? Visually arresting.? Simplistic story, but with this film it wasn't about the story.? It was getting the viewer there.
Mary
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We saw Bombshell and liked it - although some characters were so poorly defined I kept thinking - “is that the husband? The producer? Someone else?”?
Two movie recs from me: Little Women - which will have you dissolving into a puddle. And Just Mercy, which is about Bryan Stevenson, one of my heroes. Also light on insight into him (he’s not self-revealing in any way) but it richly details the Jamie Foxx character, who Stevenson defends.?
Amy
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On Jan 11, 2020, at 5:19 AM, mary_007usa via Groups.Io < sewgood5@...> wrote: I've been doing a little swatch and I think that what I'll try is to alternate colors on each row:? seed stitch a row (195 stitches so it may take awhile), push Color A to the other end, and seed stitch a row of Color B.
I think the result may be even less stripey.? The colors are close in hue until I reach the lightest ones, so this may further blur the transition.? It may have the added benefit of a thinner edge in the transition area.
Mary.
PS? I saw Bombshell yesterday.? I wasn't expecting it to be that great, but it was one of the best of the last 12 months.? Charlize Theron was magnetic.? Nicole Kidman was solid, but Charlize just melted into Megan Kelly's cool hard demeanor perfectly.? Margot Robbie also top drawer - she is on fire this year.
Mary.
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Mary, If you use a circular needle, you can just push the sts to the other end and work the next row in Color A. Did you mean this or something else when you said push Color A to the other end? I wasn't sure so I thought I'd mention this.
On Sat, Jan 11, 2020 at 8:19 AM mary_007usa via Groups.Io <sewgood5= [email protected]> wrote: I've been doing a little swatch and I think that what I'll try is to alternate colors on each row:? seed stitch a row (195 stitches so it may take awhile), push Color A to the other end, and seed stitch a row of Color B.
I think the result may be even less stripey.? The colors are close in hue until I reach the lightest ones, so this may further blur the transition.? It may have the added benefit of a thinner edge in the transition area.
Mary.
PS? I saw Bombshell yesterday.? I wasn't expecting it to be that great, but it was one of the best of the last 12 months.? Charlize Theron was magnetic.? Nicole Kidman was solid, but Charlize just melted into Megan Kelly's cool hard demeanor perfectly.? Margot Robbie also top drawer - she is on fire this year.
Mary.
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I've been doing a little swatch and I think that what I'll try is to alternate colors on each row:? seed stitch a row (195 stitches so it may take awhile), push Color A to the other end, and seed stitch a row of Color B.
I think the result may be even less stripey.? The colors are close in hue until I reach the lightest ones, so this may further blur the transition.? It may have the added benefit of a thinner edge in the transition area.
Mary.
PS? I saw Bombshell yesterday.? I wasn't expecting it to be that great, but it was one of the best of the last 12 months.? Charlize Theron was magnetic.? Nicole Kidman was solid, but Charlize just melted into Megan Kelly's cool hard demeanor perfectly.? Margot Robbie also top drawer - she is on fire this year.
Mary.
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Jaya,?
I think your combination of yarns is going to be lovely.? Looking forward to seeing how it unfolds.
Mary
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Last night I found that the designer of the Burrow Wrap had made the individual pattern available?so I bought it. I will modify it a bit but I like it and will follow it mostly as written. I wound all the yarn yesterday and am ready to start it once I knit a few small things I need to finish - a class sample, some boot cuffs for my ankle boots.
On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 10:53 AM Jaya < ermabom@...> wrote: I hope you all had a good Christmas, if you were celebrating. Or a nice quiet day if you weren’t. My cousin from the Bay Area was visiting his daughter in NYC so we had a small get-together at my sister’s.?
I found 2 more skeins of Koigu while hunting for yarn to make a few class samples and rearranged the colors of the scarf. I think this is the one that I’m going to follow. I also looked long and hard for the skeins of yellow or gold KSH I bought from Jannette but I can’t find them. So these carry along yarns will have to do. The palette is a little cleaner with the two new skeins as they are both the same colorway. One of the others that I had there before was a bit jarring. I think I will use the last one on the end (which is one of the new ones) as a border, if I need it.? The pattern only used 9 skeins and I have 10. I am planning icord so may not need a border.
I was pondering this the other day when I was wearing my Earth Stripe shawl. I did a single crochet border around it and it looks and feels very nice even after quite a bit of use. So the icord is a go. But I could pick up and knit a garter st border from the icord if I feel the shawl needs a bit more cohesiveness once it is knit.?
What I’m pondering now is whether to start with the Elann KSH clone and only put the silk in if I run out, or use the silk first. I may do the KSH clone first so as to preserve the silk for weaving if I don’t end up using it.?
Does 18” wide sound about right? I’m dithering on that also.
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Exactly what I need.
Thanks so much, Jaya.
Mary.
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There is a shawl called Free Your Fade by Andrea Mowry. Her very popular?one is Find Your Fade. She fades one color into another through a sequence of 20 rows. Basically you introduce the new color with 2 rows, then you knit a bit with old color, alternate again, knit a bit with the new color, and fade the old color out. I play fast and loose with this because I use Free Your Fade to use up bits of sock yarn by doing faded stripes in a MC. But sometime I run out before the whole fade sequence is done so I adjust. But it looks nice when properly done. Rows 1 & 2: Use color B.? Rows 3 - 6: Use color A.? Rows 7 & 8: Use color B.? Rows 9 & 10: Use color A.? Rows 11 & 12: Use color B.? Rows 13 & 14: Use color A.? Rows 15 - 18: Use color B.? Rows 19 & 20: Use color A.? Break color A and proceed with only color B.
On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 7:45 AM mary_007usa via Groups.Io <sewgood5= [email protected]> wrote: I'm happily knitting Purl Soho's Ombre Wrap.? It's like buttah.? I'm getting close to my first transition to a lighter pink.? The one thing that I don't love about this is that there is a definitely line between the color changes (A photo of the yarn pack, knitted in the form of a throw is below.)? The color change is a very nit picking issue that I'll be happy to ignore, but wouldn't it be lovely if I could smooth out that line!
Should I alternate yarn colors for an inch before moving to the new color?? I certainly don't want thicker edges in that area, which may not be a problem since the yarn easily compresses.?
Opinions, please.? TIA, Mary.
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I'm happily knitting Purl Soho's Ombre Wrap.? It's like buttah.? I'm getting close to my first transition to a lighter pink.? The one thing that I don't love about this is that there is a definitely line between the color changes (A photo of the yarn pack, knitted in the form of a throw is below.)? The color change is a very nit picking issue that I'll be happy to ignore, but wouldn't it be lovely if I could smooth out that line! Should I alternate yarn colors for an inch before moving to the new color?? I certainly don't want thicker edges in that area, which may not be a problem since the yarn easily compresses.? Opinions, please.? TIA, Mary.
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What if you knit a slit spanning the thumb from the base of the gusset to the notch where it splits from the hand by going back and forth as Jaya mentioned? Then, after all is done, you could pick stitches up along the slit and shape the thumb gusset using short rows. This way, the added stitches of the thumb should not mess up the striping.
jacqui
It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have?to do, that makes life blessed.
-Goethe
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A thumb slit is easy. You just knit back and forth for a few rounds before joining again.?
If you want to make a thumb with a gusset, it will break up the striping pattern because the width of the mitt at the thumb gusset will be wider. But you can if you want. You just do a provisional CO of the sts needed for the thumb at the point where the thumb meets the hand (maybe 12 or 16 sts for sock weigh yarn). Then you decrease 2 sts on each side of the gusset every other round till all the extra sts are decreased away. Switch to ribbing for the cuff after a few plain rounds.?
A better fit that requires more calculation is to shape the gusset with a decreases every? round at first and then every second and then every third round because one's hand doesn't widen at the same rate. It starts off slowly and then gets wider all of a sudden.. But that does need a bit more trial and error and calculation to figure out when to switch. I do this for the liners I make for my wrist braces because I want them to fit very closely. I don't do this for regular mittens. Knitting (or design really I suppose) question: ? I’ve got some really lovely self-striping yarn left over from a recent pair of socks and I’d like to use it to make mitts so I can take advantage of every little bit of it.? Because I’d like to make the mitts longer rather than shorter and would also like to avoid disrupting the striping pattern, I’ve decided to make the mitts top (hand ribbing) down (to wrist). ? At the moment, I’m trying to wrap my head around how to either leave a thumb slit and do the equivalent of an afterthought gusset and thumb or just leave a thumb slit.? I can’t quite visualize it and was hoping that someone might either have knit something like this in the past or be able to visualize it and help me figure it out. ? I think if I do a simple slit that a horizontal bindoff and immediate cast back on in the next round would work, but I don’t think I would be able to work a true thumb, which I think might be preferable for me.? The thumb would be an entirely different color from elsewhere in the stripe sequence, although I think that would work out fine as far as colors. ? Any ideas or words of wisdom? ? Melisande
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So glad they’re safe but so sad their home was lost. ??
Sending hugs and prayers for strength through these horrific disasters.?
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On Dec 31, 2019, at 4:50 PM, beryl_cathro@... wrote:
?Thanks everyone.
Apparently it’s shocking down where she lives, whole towns have been destroyed.
About time our political leaders woke up.
Beryl
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