on the shoulders of giants

posted on by Lee Cattarin

ok so. five image collage showing the front, 3 inner spreads, and back of a riso-printed zine in green and light blue. it's called 'on the shoulders of giants' and it's about a knitting technique I learned from Stephen west and how I built on that technique. it talks about joining two adjacent panels without seaming, instead knitting the second panel onto the selvedge of the first. then it uses that technique to approach two panels knit with significantly different weights of yarn

Riso printed!

  1. Hands wearing a pair of pink and grey gloves with convertable mitten tops.

    butch hands pattern

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  2. a largely unseen person holds up an expansive knitted shawl, built in 6 sections of different textures and colors. in the background, trees and dappled sunlight.

    textures unite

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  3. a knitted swatch. it's mostly white yarn, but a grid of dark red- purple- green yarn that looks like a chain link fence is built into it. the diagonal lines are achieved with floats of yarn from one row, then picked up and knit into several rows later.

    keffiyah fishing net pattern

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