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Monday, November 19, 2012

Visual Learner

I saw this purse in Interweave Knits Fall 2012 issue (not sure of the legalities of posting pics that are not my own, so I'll keep to posting links).

I'm not a big fan of doing color work, but then I saw that the myriad of color changes were achieved using only two different variegated yarns.

Curious, I figured I'd give it a try.

The pattern called for a new cast on. I read through the instructions. They might as well have been in Greek for all the sense they made. I read them, attempted to do as instructed...

(Those instructions are actually a bit better than the ones in the magazine. If I could post what was in the magazine, you'd see how impossible those instructions really are. If I had had access to these, I might have been able to do it. Lots of pictures helps.)

After 20 minutes of attempts, I realized there was no way I was going to figure it out. That's when I realized that there is another tool at my disposal: YouTube.



Why couldn't they just say this in the first place?

(Ain't technology grand? And that cast on is way cool--once I could see how it was done.)
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4 comments:

  1. BrianeNovember 19, 2012 at 9:13 AM

    I don't know what most of this means, but I admire your talent.

    And yes, technology is way cool. You and Andrew Leon are on opposite sides of that coin today, though.

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  2. Michael Offutt, Phantom ReaderNovember 19, 2012 at 9:22 AM

    I also admire your talent.

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  3. Crystal CollierNovember 19, 2012 at 9:28 AM

    LOL. Communication, eh? *shaking head*

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  4. TrishaNovember 19, 2012 at 5:14 PM

    Yeah, I doubt I'll ever learn how to do any of this stuff. ;) Go you!!

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