Stitch Scarves

I've been meaning to write this post for a few weeks now but just didn't get around to it. I've started a project based off of one that I had to do in one of painting classes in college (which you can view some of results of that here: 100 Paintings). Basically, for that project we had to set up a still life and over the course of a set period of time (I can't remember if it was over a long weekend we had or a week), we had to do 100 paintings from it. Now, these paintings were not big (I think most people in my class didn't do anything bigger than the size of a sheet of printing paper), so it was something that was considered difficult but not impossible. I think some of the guidelines were we couldn't rearrange the still life, but we could zoom in and out in our compositions, we could use different colors in the painting then maybe what color the still life actually was, etc. It was an exercise in creativity, to see how much we could get out of that one still life. What I'm doing is I'm going to take stitches from knitting stitch dictionaries, and I'm going to make scarves from each stitch. I'm not limiting myself on what needle size I can do, how wide or long they are, or the weight of the yarn. I'm going to use this as an exercise to see how yarns and stitches work, so I can better understand the construction of big projects and hopefully have better insight on how to edit instructions as I need to.

The first book I'm getting stitches from, courtesy of the local library, which I work at. Remember, if you want a book on knitting, you can always check your library to see if they have it so you can look at it before you buy it. :)

And a late Happy Easter and Passover to those who celebrate :)

Angelica

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