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September 22, 2005
Copper Scarf
As promised, here is a photo of my first finished scarf that will be sold at Art & Souls. As you can tell, this is a super close-up shot, but I wanted to show the shiny! The colors are fairly accurate. The sunset is good to the brown yarn!
It is a simple K1, P1 scarf on some big ole size 11's, with some metallic copper embroidery thread held together with the first and last five inches of the scarf. You can probably also tell from the picture that this yarn is seriously thick/thin. I'm pretty sure I ordered bulky, but.... esta bien. It's gives it character.
This is my attempt to be vaguely trendy and jump on that metallic bandwagon I've been hearing so much about. I still have nightmares of my high school Spanish teacher's gold Easy Spirit pumps, but I guess some people haven't experienced that particular horror. So, moral of the story: gold shoes, I will not go there. Shiny copper scarf, I can handle.
I also liked that the copper thread brought out the copper tone of the yarn. I don't want people to look at this gorgeous, subtlely variegated yarn and say: "But, I don't like brown!" (Bad Grumperina!)
I have a purple scarf currently in progress. I am still working on design ideas for red, green and yallow. (No, I did not spell that wrong -- it is a crazy hillbilly yellow (thus, "yallow") that I swear looked different on the website. Oh well, I guess that's the price you pay for bargain merino! I have almost decided that some cheesy 70's design is the only way to go.
Posted by zarah at September 22, 2005 10:02 PM
