Angelica
(All photographs ©Angelica Ricci and may not be used without permission.)
Tuesday, June 2, 2015
Golden Cowl
Towards the end of winter I decided to try and make myself a cowl that I had seen on a blog. Well, it ended up being a bit of a lesson in choosing yarn for a project and why sometimes you just can't modify a pattern and end up with good results, no matter how simple the pattern or the modification. I can still wear it, it just doesn't lay right on my neck. I know that my two major mistakes with this were not casting on the number of stitches that the pattern called for (I was using the long-tail cast on method and I found out that I didn't set aside enough yarn to do all the stitches) because I didn't think that would effect the outcome as much as it did. I also found out that no matter how nice a yarn feels in the store, I think that for any future projects that call for a bulky weight yarn, I'm going to use one that is not so smooth as this one is, because trying to deal with the ends that had to be woven in was very difficult as the yarn did not seem to hold onto the stitches around it so well. I'll probably try to redo this pattern at some point and compare results.
Sunday, May 31, 2015
Technology
Due to major problems with technology (namely that my four and a half year old laptop decided to not function) I haven't been able to post anything in the past few weeks. I finally did replace my laptop and have, for the most part, gotten it set up (Windows 8.1 has been an interesting experience; not only have I had to load a lot of things onto my new laptop that I didn't think I was going to need to but I'm now working on taking off what it came with that I can't see myself ever using). Over the next few weeks I'm going to work on getting what I've been planning on posting posted. In the meantime, here are two medium format photographs. A mix of old and new technology, I shot them on film with a Holga camera and then scanned the negatives and edited them in Photoshop.
Angelica
(All photographs ©Angelica Ricci and may not be used without permission.)
Sunday, April 12, 2015
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.
And a late Happy Easter and Passover to those who celebrate :)
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| 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. :) |
Angelica
(All photographs ©Angelica Ricci and may not be used without permission.)
Saturday, March 28, 2015
Ao
(See this blog for an interesting fact about how the word 'blue' ('Ao') is used in Japanese: 色(=iro) : Color related Japanese | Maggie Sensei)
Angelica
(All photographs ©Angelica Ricci and may not be used without permission.)
Saturday, March 21, 2015
Thursday, March 19, 2015
More Large Format
These are just some large format photos that, I think, were just practice ones. I don't recall these being for anything specific but they came out pretty good.
Angelica
(All photographs ©Angelica Ricci and may not be used without permission.)
Sunday, March 8, 2015
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