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. Feet propped up on a car dashboard, with a desert landscape beyond. The feet are in salmon-colored socks with black flecks, and decorative lines running down the socks.

    pink socks

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  2. 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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  3. A diaphanous knit lacework scarf draped over the back of a chair. It is split down the long way into two colors - one tinted orange and one tinted mint blue. Both colors, the orange and the blue, are held double with the same variegated gray, making the piece more cohesive. The yarn overs in the lacework create airy repeating holes.

    brooke's scarf

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