Sunday, May 23, 2010

Life has its own hidden forces


This is a picture of an undaunted dandelion. It looks like this, because it has squeezed through two flagstones on my terrace. I feel a little like it when I work on this project.:



One of my green projects has become "½ hour -a -day-project". It is a linen dress, a piece of knitted art, a clever construction of domino knitted squares, that are wrenched in a way that the shape will become balloon-y. I want this dress so much but it is impossible for me to work it for more than ½ hour a day. The linen is rough and inelastic, however the color is beautiful, three linen threads of dark green and a light green cotton thread loosely twisted.
I have done some maths on this dress. When I have finished it(-and I will)- I have:
cast on : 396 stitches,
picked up :823 stitches
made : 460 decreases.
Roughly!

4 comments:

  1. What a lovely dress. When you were doing your maths, did you calculate how long it will take you?

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  2. Wow! Very beautiful and so creative of you. That green is the perfect most gorgeous colour too!!

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  3. Thank you! I cast on March 16 and I am just about to pick up stitches for the yoke. It is almost fun ;LOL

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  4. Oh how lovely - and a beautiful shade of green. Knitting with linen is hard on the hands but it does soften with washing and wearing. I hope you make progress so you can wear it and NOT look like that dandelion.

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