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. 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

    • knit
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  2. 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

    • knit
    • gender
  3. Feet in a pair of colorful socks. They are identically striped and quickly vary between yellow, green, blue, white, and gray.

    brooke's socks

    • knit