On December 1st, a new Designers Challenge went up! This ones really going to be interesting...
The goal this month:
Object: Sock
Theme: Cultural
Technique: Cuff Down
I'm not really a huge "sock person" but this got me thinking of about a thousand different things! As soon as I read the challenge (which can be found in full here) my mind started brimming with images of candy skulls for dia des los muertos (day of the dead), African tribal masks, Roman colosseums and Indian bellydancers costumes, I just can't quite figure out how to translate them into a sock...
At first I was thinking in some sort of texture relation, like small arching cables or a knit purl pattern to express a certain shape. I played around with some swatches and nothing really stood out to me as a "This is it!" sort of thing, then I tried out a little bit of colorwork, nope, still not quite what I'm looking for... I'm still a bit stumped for that, my mind is starting to venture into the realm of slipped stitches, mosaic knitting and possibly even beadwork...at this point it's anyone's best guess really. Perhaps in a bit I'll think of something, a very "spur of the moment" type of thing...
Any who, I'm very busy Christmas knitting so I may not even make this challenge in time! Even if I don't finish in time I'm still going to try making some socks, perhaps a new pattern will come soon! :-D
-Eleni
The goal this month:
Object: Sock
Theme: Cultural
Technique: Cuff Down
I'm not really a huge "sock person" but this got me thinking of about a thousand different things! As soon as I read the challenge (which can be found in full here) my mind started brimming with images of candy skulls for dia des los muertos (day of the dead), African tribal masks, Roman colosseums and Indian bellydancers costumes, I just can't quite figure out how to translate them into a sock...
At first I was thinking in some sort of texture relation, like small arching cables or a knit purl pattern to express a certain shape. I played around with some swatches and nothing really stood out to me as a "This is it!" sort of thing, then I tried out a little bit of colorwork, nope, still not quite what I'm looking for... I'm still a bit stumped for that, my mind is starting to venture into the realm of slipped stitches, mosaic knitting and possibly even beadwork...at this point it's anyone's best guess really. Perhaps in a bit I'll think of something, a very "spur of the moment" type of thing...
Any who, I'm very busy Christmas knitting so I may not even make this challenge in time! Even if I don't finish in time I'm still going to try making some socks, perhaps a new pattern will come soon! :-D
-Eleni