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\nYarns:<\/span>\u00a0 Green Mountain Spinnery “Mountain Mohair”
\nMethod:\u00a0<\/span> Hand knitting
\nCompleted:<\/span>\u00a0 February 10, 2013.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
I bought the yarn at the Green Mountain Spinnery in 2005.\u00a0 My design notes (from “Design a Knit”) are dated 2006.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I started knitting immediately on completing the design, and then let the sweater sit in a “time out” for a good long time.<\/p>\n
First of all — I’m pretty happy with the results.\u00a0 It fits well.\u00a0 The yarn is lovely (of course!\u00a0 it’s Mountain Mohair!).\u00a0 The wrist band patterning lines up with the waist patterning when I drop my arms.<\/p>\n
There are some design “issues” that got on the way of enjoying knitting, causing the multi-year timeouts, and that I’d want to overcome for any future design effort:<\/p>\n
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- lack of contrast (value) between the charcoal main colour and the green and red of the lower design<\/li>\n
- irregular pattern — it was hard to “learn” each line of the pattern to knit it correctly — made the colourwork really a slog<\/span> to get through<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
And, executionally,<\/p>\n
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- I need to loosen up in the colour stranded knitting — you can see the top of the sleeve is narrower than the plain charcoal just below it, for example (giving the sweater the “granny triceps” look).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
The overall design theory of “Maritime Morning” was something along the lines of — rocks on the edge of shore, with seaweed (and flowers?) showing at low tide… somewhere the dark water blurs to the horizon and sky and clouds.\u00a0 Hey — it’s a theory.<\/p>\n
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\n \u00a0\u00a0 ![\"frong\"](\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/KnitBot-Yarn-Gallery\/2013-MaritimeMorning\/IMG_4684-thumb.jpg\")
<\/a><\/span><\/td>\nFront view<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n ![\"back\"](\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/KnitBot-Yarn-Gallery\/2013-MaritimeMorning\/IMG_4685-thumb.jpg\")
<\/a><\/span><\/td>\nBack view<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n ![\"shoulder](\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/KnitBot-Yarn-Gallery\/2013-MaritimeMorning\/IMG_4692-thumb.jpg\")
<\/a><\/span><\/td>\nDetail of shoulder\/arm.\u00a0 See that the charcoal plain knit is baggier than the patterning at the top of the sleeve?\u00a0 Gotta loosen up that colourwork stranding.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n ![\"front,](\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/KnitBot-Yarn-Gallery\/2013-MaritimeMorning\/IMG_4695-thumb.jpg\")
<\/a><\/span><\/td>\nFlat view of front<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Pattern: My own design Yarns:\u00a0 Green Mountain Spinnery “Mountain Mohair” Method:\u00a0 Hand knitting Completed:\u00a0 February 10, 2013. I bought the yarn at the Green Mountain Spinnery in 2005.\u00a0 My design notes (from “Design a Knit”) are dated 2006.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knitting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_4695-thumb.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7fEfz-4B","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions\/288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
- I need to loosen up in the colour stranded knitting — you can see the top of the sleeve is narrower than the plain charcoal just below it, for example (giving the sweater the “granny triceps” look).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
![\"frong\"](\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/KnitBot-Yarn-Gallery\/2013-MaritimeMorning\/IMG_4684-small.jpg\")
<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n![\"back\"](\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/KnitBot-Yarn-Gallery\/2013-MaritimeMorning\/IMG_4685-small.jpg\")
<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n![\"shoulder](\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/KnitBot-Yarn-Gallery\/2013-MaritimeMorning\/IMG_4692-small.jpg\")
<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n![\"front,](\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/KnitBot-Yarn-Gallery\/2013-MaritimeMorning\/IMG_4695-small.jpg\")
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