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. Several knitted drawstring dice bags sit in front of a bookshelf. They are in different pride flag colors; from right to left (skipping a few duplicates) bisexual, lesbian, nonbinary, trans, and genderqueer. The trans-colored dice bag in the center opens towards the camera, showing a variety of colorful dice inside.

    pride dice bags

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    • gender
  2. A logo in purple, yellow, blue, and green. A piece of paper folded into 8 sections reads FEDI ZINE; it resembles the classic folding pattern of a simple 8-page zine made from printer paper. Next to it, a fully folded zine reads fest 2025.

    fediZineFest 2025

    • zine
  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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