197 Gradual Stiffening
The weather. Men in shorts. The run down. Ta Da moments. And the moments just before a plan comes together.
The Red Edge is complete!
The chart for Red Edge was designed by Anna-Lisa Mannheimer Lunndown, and is from the book Poems of Colour, by Wendy Keele. I used the top down set-in sleeve method pioneered by Elizabeth Doherty. I talked about this method at length in 153 I, Curator.
My Summer(s) of Socks
2022: Ipomoea, Lunaria and the gradient-dyed pair of Syncopation socks that set Jeny Staiman on a path towards Polar Arc.
2023: Weekend Shorties, and Pan.
2024 Plans: Weekend Shorties redux, Footprint, Zabava, plus August Argyle's, once I have learned intarsia in the round. I have tons of sock leftovers (courtesy of my KBFF) and I'm having a blast playing with all the colours.
Read more about Gradual Stiffening, pattern 207 in A Pattern Language, by Chris Alexander, here.
Music in this podcast: Merrigan's Reel, by Jim Fidler; and I'm Back! by Royal Deluxe.
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