{"id":4226,"date":"2021-04-03T09:56:37","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T16:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/annetarsia.com\/?p=4226"},"modified":"2021-04-03T09:56:37","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T16:56:37","slug":"the-power-of-stripes-they-turned-a-bag-of-small-amounts-of-leftover-yarn-into-a-beautiful-shawl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/2021\/04\/the-power-of-stripes-they-turned-a-bag-of-small-amounts-of-leftover-yarn-into-a-beautiful-shawl\/","title":{"rendered":"The POWER of Stripes! They turned a bag of small amounts of leftover yarn into a beautiful shawl…."},"content":{"rendered":"

I posted about finishing my “Garbage” version of Veera Valimaki’s “Color Affectation”<\/a> shawl.\u00a0 Here are more photos and details about knitting it. This shawl was created, entirely, from a bag of leftover yarns from multiple projects. There was no specific color scheme. Many of the yarns looked a lot alike, and I wasn’t sure how they would work together.\u00a0 They are all of the same fingering weight, but are of different (unknown, at this point!) materials.\u00a0 So, I wet-blocked the shawl and let it air-dry.<\/p>\n

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The yarns that are similar in color add a subtle depth and richness. The color change isn’t apparent unless you look closely.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I labeled the remnants “garbage” in my head, and promised myself that if it looked awful when finished that I would be fine with that. I could throw it away, or use it wrap around something for protection – knitted fabric is always useful for something. But, of course, stripes are magic and make everything look interesting. The power of color should never be under-estimated.\u00a0 Even though I teach on the subject, and have knit countless projects with striping, I marvel at the magic that it has, every single time.<\/p>\n

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I used every scrap up, and attached the next random color with the Russian join technique. There only a few ends to bury, after blocking. Note the Darker blue, above, joined to the lighter blue in mid-row<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I wore the shawl to work, and got tons of compliments. If I had tried to coordinate colors, this shawl wouldn’t exist, and I already know this is going to be a favorite!\u00a0 From a distance, this shawl absolutely glows.\u00a0 Some colors dominate, but the subtle colors are supporting the entire effect.<\/p>\n

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Color Affectation, by Veera Valimaki, made entirely of small amounts of leftovers from other projects, in random stripes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I posted about finishing my “Garbage” version of Veera Valimaki’s “Color Affectation” shawl.\u00a0 Here are more photos and details about knitting it. This shawl was created, entirely, from a bag of leftover yarns from multiple projects. There was no specific color scheme. Many of the yarns looked a lot alike, and I wasn’t sure how […]\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[321,82,267],"class_list":["post-4226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book","tag-color-affectation","tag-knitting","tag-stripes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4228,"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4226\/revisions\/4228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}