Sometimes the ones who inspire you are the ones who come walking through your door.
Mary, a knitter friend, stopped by earlier last week to show me what she had made with the ten skeins of 220 she had ordered. Can you believe this? It’s beautiful!
A gift for her cousin on her wedding day, this knitted cable and lace afghan took almost all ten skeins of 220. This piece inspires me to make a bedspread of my own.
The stitch pattern can also be found in B. Walker’s A Treasury of Knitting Patterns. Called Frost Flowers, this pattern dates back to the early 19th century and is actually quite easy to memorize.
This is a sweater knitted by TJ, another great knitter and knitter friend. Using the EPS (Elizabeth’s Percentage System) method, TJ knitted this awesome piece using Eco wool in chocolate.
EPS is great to use if you’re interested in designing your own sweater rather than using an existing pattern. In that sense, you are able to customize the fitting of your garment however you’d like.
Though the majority of the sweater is knitted plain in stockinette, small details were incorporated to add interest to the piece. For example, horseshoe cables were carried up the sleeve to the saddle shoulder, and even a honeycomb design broke the stream of cables to give it a kick.
In the back, as part of his trademark, TJ incorporated a Saracen’s Crown on the top center (sometimes, he puts a Fleurdelise). The pattern for this crown can be found in B. Walker’s A Second Treasury of Knitting Patterns.
Obviously, I’m speaking as though I helped design the sweater when in actuality, I’m just an admirer of TJ’s piece. Love it!
