Fairisle, we all know,
looks crappy on the wrong side;
hug that stole tightly!
Insidious.
At first glance, the knitter thinks, “A pretty stole!”
The advance knitter notices the project includes lace, intarsia, duplicate stitch, fair isle and more lace. She counts and realizes she will need to carry 5 dangly balls of yarn while knitting. She may think, “But beauty is worth it!”
Fortunately, the advanced knitter pauses remembering that fair isle floats are ugly.
She decides she does not want to spend her holiday evenings huging this shawl to her body in a vain attempt to hide very ugly float covered wrong side of the stole at every festive occasionn this season.
The advanced knitter gives this pattern a miss.
The intermediate knitter says, “Hmmm… advanced techniques. But ‘they’ tell me I should rise to challenges.”
The intermediate knitter buys the yarn and casts on. Concentrating as she follows the side-by-side fair-isle and lace charts, she knits 4 inches. Maybe she knits 8 inches. Proud of herself, she inspect her work.
Suddenly, she realizes, ‘OMG, the wrong side looks like crap!’”
The intermediate knitter has learned the insidious horror of some seemingly beautiful designs.
This item appears in Vogue Knitting
, Holiday 2006.
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Great minds think alike. It would make a lovely kimono sweater don’t ya think?
Comment by Holly (0 comments.) — 10/27/2006 @ 3:09 pm
I love it, Lucia! Good use of the crazy Geisha stole pattern.
I started thinking the other day, at the shop (during my rare ten seconds of quiet yarn labeling or something), what if you backed it with silk or something? And then the rational side of me smacked me upside the head with a skein of Malabrigo and said, um, Kate, right. You’re going to spend THAT MUCH TIME knitting a SHAWL, and then have to sew something to it? Not likely. Not at all likely.
Comment by Kate (0 comments.) — 10/27/2006 @ 8:58 pm
I don’t even think it’s all that pretty. It looks like the knitter had a whole bunch of random balls of yarn left over, and couldn’t decide on a design, so they decided to knit three of them with mismatched yarn.
Comment by Kathy (0 comments.) — 10/30/2006 @ 10:08 am