I am in another photo scavenger hunt – always a diversion. My second photo in the hunt is for the heading “Face.” I was out for an early morning walk and came across these adorable “faces.”
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| Pansy “Faces” |
They reminded me of a knitting designer whose work I absolutely LOVE – Susan Duckworth.
I tried to find contact information for Susan; but couldn’t, so I am posting this picture of her Pansy sweater without permission; but maybe this will sell a book or two for her or encourage her to start publishing again.
I have the book “Susan Duckworth’s Knitting”, which I bought ages ago. It was published in 1988. I never tried knitting her pansy sweater or her other florals, though I did try to crop out part of a graph and add it to a mitten – sadly I gave up!! And I am the one who wants intarsia to make a come back?
I am working on a series of “things” in fingering weight yarn and I am tempted to do an adult sweater or two as well. I know that the patterns will never “sell” because of the finess of the yarn – that’s fine – ness not finesse, though they may be related here.
I remember when I bought the book and a few others at the time. I was home with children and justified the expense as small compared to the expense of therapy! I also remember my jaw dropping at the thought of knitting a sweater in anything finer than DK weight yarn. I actually varied a Sasha Kagan sweater for my husband from fingering to DK – 2.5 repeats of the pattern rather than 3 – but no one noticed.
Now, perhaps to “face” a challenge that I waived (or failed) 20 or more years ago. Hmmmmm – Maybe…
Have a picture perfect day!!!