Chartres
Rose window, outer rim:
(I've been all about the little projects lately - can you tell? This hat is something I've been knocking around for a while, and finally got a couple days to work on. I'll show more soon - I've been wanting to talk about color for Fair Isle for a couple weeks now, and the pattern for this hat will provide a great canvas for anyone who wants to play along. And besides, it's pretty - fancy decreases in pattern and neato knobbly hem and glowing dying star colors and all).
Comments
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Posted by: lydia | December 8, 2006 03:16 PM
Ooh, I'm very excited, especially having seen the other stuff you've designed lately!
Posted by: Emilee | December 8, 2006 03:34 PM
Wow! I didn't think I would ever like Fair Isle, but that is MY kind of Fair Isle. I can't wait to see more!
Posted by: jaws | December 8, 2006 03:41 PM
Shiney!
Posted by: Jennifer | December 8, 2006 03:41 PM
So pretty! I'm loving all the F.I. vibe these days -- especially yours!
Posted by: martha in mobile | December 8, 2006 04:13 PM
Now this is exciting! I need a new hat, you know. Can't find my favorite one. It's driving me bananas.
It really does look like stained glass. Splendid!
Posted by: Beth S. | December 8, 2006 04:29 PM
Your "little" projects are more impressive than most of our big projects. I can't wait to see the hat, though - I've been thinking I need a new one, and maybe I need to learn Fair Isle.....
Posted by: janna | December 8, 2006 04:32 PM
I love the colors! You are my FAVORITE designer these days! I NEED a book of your designs...Please tell me that you are working on a book deal!!!
Posted by: Sharon A | December 8, 2006 04:44 PM
I love the colors! You are my FAVORITE designer these days! I NEED a book of your designs...Please tell me that you are working on a book deal!!!
Posted by: Sharon A | December 8, 2006 04:44 PM
oh,my. I've done fair-isle sorts of knitting (no one told me it was hard) (same with cables, a single column in the first sweater I ever did). Haven't lately, but will succumb when this pattern is available.
Posted by: Judith | December 8, 2006 05:03 PM
when i was 13 years old, i spent one beautiful hour just staring at the very rose window of which you speak. i cannot wait to see more of this hat.
Posted by: Stella | December 8, 2006 05:30 PM
I definitely want to play along! This looks like it will be a beautiful hat ...I can't wait!
Posted by: Pat | December 8, 2006 05:50 PM
I've always adored stained glass. I'm going to bet that the geometric style of Islamic mosaic work, such as the exterior of the Dome of the Rock, would translate beautifully into knitting.
Posted by: Melissa | December 8, 2006 05:54 PM
I can't wait to see the finished product! It's so obvious it's going to be GORGEOUS!!!
Posted by: Cathy | December 8, 2006 06:13 PM
Your use of color is astonishingly skillful. It just glows.
Posted by: Sue F. | December 8, 2006 06:30 PM
You're a TEASE! (grin)
Posted by: --Deb | December 8, 2006 06:31 PM
it looks like a wonderful project. can't wait to see it done- would love the pattern for the hat!
Posted by: hPNY knits | December 8, 2006 09:43 PM
Your designs are so beautiful, you alone are inspiring me to learn color knitting. The mitts, mittens, hat - just gorgeous.
Posted by: Michele | December 8, 2006 11:08 PM
So lovely!!!!!
You also made very nice socks again for Knitty.com!!
tijm.blogspot.com
Posted by: Tijm | December 9, 2006 01:56 AM
"glowing dying star colors"=GORGEOUS
I have always loved what my mother called "bruise colors". Your teaser photo reminds me of some of my favorite Amish quilts that have black grounds. (www.revere-collection.com/dir_nii/nii_esprit.html)
I can't wait to see more of the hat!
Posted by: Valerie | December 9, 2006 03:10 AM
i would just like to say that my heart went pitter-pat at the suggestion of a fair isle pattern in colors derived from a rose window at chartres.
Posted by: laura | December 9, 2006 06:53 AM
*dies*
that's gorgeous! i'd love to do that...
Posted by: Jacqui | December 9, 2006 07:03 AM
Your mittens are so beautiful that they almost make me want to try color work!
Posted by: Diane D. | December 9, 2006 08:06 AM
How beautiful!
I love Melissa's idea of Islamic mosaic/ colorwork!
Posted by: The Purloined Letter | December 9, 2006 08:09 AM
Delurking simply to melt in wonder.
Found your blog over Thanksgiving weekend. Reading the archives made a bad head cold much more bearable. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Posted by: korinthe | December 9, 2006 08:41 AM
Thank you for sharing - - but hurry! I need a new hat for the Chicago winter (about 9 degrees right now!) and looking like it will stay that way for about a week. I always look forward to your inspiring projects.
Posted by: Anna Marie | December 9, 2006 09:03 AM
Lovely! The blues and yellows and pinks are like little gems.
Posted by: Katie | December 9, 2006 09:25 AM
Wow! Can you post the yarn requirements so that we can get them ordered?
Posted by: lucy | December 9, 2006 11:06 AM
Stained Glass knitting - the idea makes my breath catch.
Sharon A. is right. We NEED a book from you.
Posted by: Julie McC. | December 9, 2006 12:20 PM
The colors you've used are just lovely, but you already know that.
I'm actually writing to thank you for the detailed and intense tutorial on provisional cast on. I've used this cast on a few times, but not frequently enough to be very good at it or remember what I did from project to project. Your tutorial helped me breeze through my cast on this morning. Thanks again and I now know where to turn for future reference.
Posted by: Nano | December 9, 2006 12:26 PM
Beautifuly, Eunny! It certainly DOEs look like stained-glass windows.
Posted by: Brad A. Turner | December 9, 2006 05:49 PM
I love that deep gorgeous blue against the black. Please do a book, your patterns are always so beautifully elegant and look fun to do at the same time.
Posted by: Rachel | December 10, 2006 12:19 AM
Wow! You are a knitting artist. I can't wait to see the finished piece.
Posted by: Jess | December 10, 2006 05:24 PM
Anxious to play along--what do I need to get? I cannot wait until your books come out.
Posted by: betzig | December 10, 2006 07:23 PM
Oooooh! Pretty! Can't wait to see how this one turns out. Your patterns are awesome!
Posted by: Queue | December 10, 2006 09:41 PM
So pretty! I can't wait to see the rest.
Posted by: Teresa | December 10, 2006 11:08 PM
OMG I want that. I have been dreaming of knitting stained glass for about 4 years but I am creative-impaired. I'm going to follow you around until that turns into something I can knit! Beautiful!!
Posted by: CarolineF | December 11, 2006 08:23 AM
As always, beautiful! Can't wait to see more. I saw your profile in knitscene! so cool - congrats on everything. I can't wait to buy your books! You are an inspiration.
Posted by: Kelly | December 11, 2006 11:33 AM
I'm so fascinated with your color work- but I have to ask- did you ever finish the norwegian jacket? I loved seeing it come together- I'm sure the finished product would be magnificent!!!
Posted by: Barbara | December 11, 2006 04:54 PM
All I can say is ... Wow!!!
In my 35+ years of knitting I've never done any Fair Isle knitting but this is a great project to cut your Fair Isle teeth on. Thanks.
Posted by: Jackie H | December 11, 2006 06:18 PM
That is beautiful! I love your stuff. My first fair isle project went well but my second one had issues - I need to try again.
Also, I wanted to ask you when you would share the tubular cast-on tricks you mentioned about a month ago.
I am learning a lot from your blog. Thanks!
Posted by: Astabeth | December 11, 2006 06:59 PM
Dear Eunny: Thanks for the thorough description of blocking. Your work is creative and beautiful.
Posted by: sarah | December 13, 2006 09:23 AM
Chartres is glorious ! Simply the most beautiful colors ever... Yours is up to the original.
But you must see Rouen, Amiens, Notre-Dame, Beauvais, Caen, Strasbourg, etc. etc. etc.
Posted by: Isabelle | December 14, 2006 03:21 PM
thank you for your clear tutorials. i hope you enjoy writing them as much as your audience delights in reading them. you are a natural teacher and you give people the gift of confidence. i have just started knitting again and when i read your material i feel wildly encouraged. maybe we should say you are a great enabler, in the most positive sense.
Posted by: eve | January 1, 2007 01:42 PM
cherish his belief inquietness dot He once told a friend of his that
http://hwntai.blogspot.com/ >free hwntai*
but reached forward into the dark future with unsatisfied longings
Posted by: ylnhp | May 5, 2007 06:53 AM