Colorful cable swatches
(Thanks for clicking through the SOPA Blackout page. I try to avoid politics on this blog, but SOPA could have such a profoundly negative impact on the crafty blogger community that I was compelled to participate in the blackout today.)
I finished The City and The Stars, which was another Arthur C. Clarke masterpiece, but decided not to continue on to the Sands of Mars. This week, I’m reading one of my birthday gifts.
So far, I’m enjoying Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
Oh, what’s that? You want to see what I’ve been working on, you say? I am finishing a secret project, and my sister’s blanket was too large to photograph in my dimly lit apartment or outside in the pouring rain. So I’m sharing my swatches from the Colorful Cables class I took with Melissa Leapman on Sunday at Vogue Knitting Live.
Slip stitch cables
Color blocked cable
Stranded (Fair Isle) cables
Intarsia cables
(Ignore the messy work – I was frantically learning new techniques in a classroom!) I can definitely see myself working with slip stitch and color blocked cables in the future. I might even consider the stranded cables. But the intarsia cables? Not so much.
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All the swatches look interesting but I particularly like the color block cable. I borrowed Miss Peregrini’s Home for Peculiar Children from our library a few weeks ago but I just couldn’t get in to it for some reason. When you’ve finished, let me know if you enjoyed it.
I agree, Dorothy. The intarsia cable didn’t come out exciting enough to encourage me to do all that work!
I think the writing style is a bit clumsy, especially in the beginning – I guess the author is trying to sound like a goofy teenager. But after the first chapter or so, the story drew me in a little bit more. I will let you know!
Glad you’re enjoying the book, I was inspired to read it after seeing it on a different blog on a Wednesday post, so I like that I have passed it on
Thanks for the SOPA blackout page, even if it did scare me a little at first – I thought you’d left the web entirely!
I’m glad you kept looking Nat! Thanks for inspiring my next read.
Those are neat techniques but the intarsia one looks a little too fiddly for me. I think I’ve just decided that I’m not a big fan of cables anyway. They hurt my hands too much when I work them.
I thought the intarsia was way too fiddly for me too, Vanessa, and then the cables don’t even “pop.” I’d much rather do something easier that looks more exciting
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I really need to try some of those techniques but am trying to take it one step at a time at the moment
The book looks interesting
Sounds like a good plan, Sarah!
Colour block cables – very cool!
I love your cables! They all look great, but I think the colour block ones are my favourite.
Thanks Liz and Minding My Own Stitches! I love the color blocked cables too – I can’t wait to try some kind of real project with that technique.
Wow … it looks like you learned a lot! I’m sorry I missed Vogue Knitting Live this past weekend but I did notice a lot of very fashionable women walking around the city with their name badges (and knitting needles).
How true, Evelyn! There were definitely a lot of people in from out of town and then a few “commuters” like me.
Love your blackout! As for your WIPs this week…every single one looks HARD! Nice job paying attention in class..great work!
Thanks, heather! There are two that were actually pretty easy, one was “medium” and the other was way too persnickety for me!
Love the cables! I can’t wait to learn how to make them. I just mastered ripples this week, I thought they would be so difficult, and boy was I wrong : )
I also LOVE Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. It was such a great book, I got it for my bf’s little sister for Christmas
Welcome, Rachel! I’m enjoying the book so far. Cables are easier than I thought they would be before I made them
. However, some of these color techniques for knit cables are way too complex for me!
I was at VKL too! Your swatches are really pretty.
Awesome, erin! I hope you had a great time – I really had a lot of fun.
I’m glad to see that you participated in SOPA and I like the way that you did it. I didn’t get on top of things early enough to participate but did sign a petition and spread the word through FB.
On another note, lovely crochet cables!
Thanks Kathryn/CrochetBlogger. And yes, these are knit cables. I think it would be SO MUCH EASIER to do colorful cables in knitting! I really wish I could have taken a crochet class at VK Live, but the other crochet classes were too basic for me and the Jennifer Hansen broomstick lace class I wanted to take was cancelled
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As soon as I read that I realized that they’re probably knit cables aren’t they? Either way, lovely
sOPA is not well thought out and I agree with you that it will have a big impact if it goes through. My son is doing a school project on it and I had to help decipher parts of it tonight. Definitely not written by people who understand technology.
Welcome Yarnchanger! What a great school project for your son – if more students had projects like that, I’m sure we’d be a much more educated democracy!
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, sounds interesting; I’ve heard others mention it before. Maybe something I will look into. Your class work looks good. I’m with you on the intarsia cables, I don’t think I’m interested in them either. Sorry this is late. I’m just now catching up on my posts.
It’s ok sarahfay, there’s no commenting deadline
. I just finished the book and I really enjoyed it!