"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."- Leonardo da Vinci

3.12.2011

Learning Colorwork

What a week! Oh, what a week! I was on my own with A. for two weeks, as hubby is exploring the Orient for work (poor him, I know).
You may remember that I was looking forward to a knitting course at this wonderful little yarn store called Espace Tricot. I’ve never knitted a two-color project, and I felt it was time to learn a new skill. To my delight I saw that they had a colorwork course scheduled and I thought to myself, what better way to spend a snowy March evening than in a cozy little store surrounded by a myriad of colorful yarn, books and all kinds of knitting gadgets, and in the company of fellow knitters intent on acquiring a new skill? So I signed up.
The plan was to photograph the whole experience and tell you all about it. Well, unfortunately, 10 rows into my knitted swatch I got a phone-call from my baby-sitter, that my son was not feeling well and I better rush home. Which of course I did, and it turned out that A. had a pretty bad case of gastro. Now, a week later, he’s recovered and is back to his usual mischief.
So I finished my little swatch at home, and I can say that I now know the basics of Intarsia, but that’s about it. Then again, not bad for an hour, right? I am hoping that soon enough there’ll be another course I can sign up for because there is so much more I want to learn!

6 comments:

  1. Looks wonderful- I *love* colorwork. What are those beautiful colored pencils I see??

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  2. Thank you Melynda. I've seen examples of your colorwork, the matching mitts for yourself and Elise and teh Dale of Norway Christmas outfit were beautiful. I hope that some day soon I;ll be able to also make something like that! In the meantine, the pencils are from Omer des Serres (in Montreal they are the one-stop shop for any crafting supplies you need), not sure what the equivalent would be for you.

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  3. Beautiful Monica - love the photograph of that gorgeous heart as well.

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  4. Beautiful colorwork Monica! It's being really pleasant come to your blog and see what you have to share with us!

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  5. adorable ! and it looks so nice on the paper too

    ps : I agree with the first commenter : cool pencils !

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