The Dallas Handknitters Guild meets Tuesday evening, September 4, and the speaker is going to be me! I so enjoy speaking to that group of people. The topic for the evening is Very Variegated, which is about how to use multicolor yarn to its best advantage.
In preparation for the discussion on Tuesday night, I have been swatching with this Noro yarn called ‘the world of nature,’ on size 8 (US) needles. I bought the yarn a couple of Christmases ago, so it’s about time!
The stitch patterns are Fern or Leaf-Patterned Lace from Barbara Walker’s A Treasury of Knitting Patterns, (top), and Laddered Diamonds from Walker’s Charted Knitting Designs (bottom).
I thought the dark purple and tweedy gray would be good color partners for the Noro multicolor. You can see them toward the top of the swatch The dark purple may be too much of a contrast, but the gray doesn’t look too bad. Mostly I wanted to add interest to the knitted fabric, and to stretch the Noro a little further.
I tried hard to think of a play on words to use for the title of this post. Nothing. But imagine this: You’re standing outside the yarn shop, when you hear the sound of galloping hooves. The rider is a masked woman, her multicolor knitted cape streaming behind her. She pulls up short at the yarn shop, the cape swirls around her as the horse turns to face you. The rider takes a long knitting needle from the scabbard at her side. She scratches three lines on the yarn store wall, and then spurs her horse away. You study the scratches in the paint. It looks like the letter ‘N.’ It’s the
Mark of Noro!