Comments on: Casting About

By: Nora

Nora — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 20:45:30 +0000

The Fair Isle swatch is beautiful. Your vision (for all the designs) is creative, original and speaks volumes of your talent. Well done.

(BTW, I found you via the Knitting Philistine.)

By: kelp!

kelp! — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 05:18:57 +0000

That William Morris swatch is so cool, I can’t wait to see your design come together!

By: mel

mel — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 21:49:38 +0000

Great stuff Ruth, really great stuff I can’t wait to see what you do. That William Morris swatch is particularly intriguing - Gorgeous!! I can absolutely sympathize with the designs-in-your head and wanting to get them out, but getting ahead of myself with the planning and possibilities. Anyway, you’ve come so far with your swatches and process and I think your ambitions of publishing are well placed. You can do it! And I’m glad you shared!!

By: Marie

Marie — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 22:22:38 +0000

I’ve always been slightly obsessed with works from the Arts and Crafts movement and especially William Morris’ beautiful designs so I was really excited by your swatch. I really love your interpretation…it captures the spirit of many of WM designs so well. I hope the solution for inserting it presents itself. Barring all else, you could knit the back piece in portions by picking up stitches from the edges of the decorative panel.
The yarns for the fatigue sweater are beautiful. I’m especially in love with the red swatch. The color looks so much more complex and interesting than your usual red…is the picture true to color? Is the actual yarn so wonderfully heathered? (if so I may have to buy myself some for a sweater!)
(This is turning into quite a long comment…sorry!) The Golden Siam swatch and your imagined design sound absolutely wonderful. The colors are such a perfect match together…
Good luck on your designing endeavors! It’s so impressive the works that you are tackling!
By the way, I just heard your piece on Cast-On. Absolutely wonderful!! Congrats!

By: Beth in WI

Beth in WI — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 22:42:13 +0000

I agree with you about the red and wheat swatches. Fantastic looking yarn! (I love heathers.) The wheat swatch makes me want to go bake some bread. I like hearing about the whole design process, too. I am trying to work out something right now but since I can’t work it through in my head, it gets about every third stolen moment.

By: Emilee

Emilee — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 05:38:18 +0000

First of all, your William Morris swatch is stunning. I’ve always been captivated by his designs.

It was really interesting to read your thoughts on designing stuff and getting stuck. I have experienced that myself lately, and I haven’t posted on my blog about it for exactly the reasons you describe.

I sort of wish I had a writer’s circle, but for knitting, you know? Show your stuff to a group of people, get feedback, improve. Maybe I should try to set one up.

I also really like the slipped stitch pattern with the variegated yarn. It shows off the color changes really nicely.

Good luck making it work, I’m sure it’ll come together eventually!