Inspiration 5443

I’ve been knit­ting for most of my life, except for a long gap in the 1990s. I took it up again about 3 years ago and, due in no little part to Eve’s encour­age­ment, am going to start show­ing off some of what I’ve done and am doing. Maybe blog­ging will even encour­age me to fin­ish things soon­er — I tend to do most of a piece but not get around to fin­ish­ing it for some time.

All that being said, here’s my first blog entry on the sub­ject of crafts, my ver­sion of item 5443 in a pat­tern book called Inspir­a­tion 75. One would think that a book that calls itself “inspir­a­tion” could come up with inspired names for the pat­terns with­in it, rather than just num­bers. In the book the top looks like the image on the left (note the link leads to an online retail­er for the pat­tern books and yarn; I have no idea wheth­er they’re any good or not but they did have all the images). Instead of the recom­men­ded yarn, I used Schoeller­’s Micro-Cablé in col­our 23 (yet anoth­er unin­spired name). The link there is to Wise Needle, a great site if you want to fig­ure out which yarns to sub­sti­tute for that hard-to-find yarn from Europe. Tim took the photo of the res­ults on a mini-golf course in Maui, hence the “shot on loc­a­tion” look.