norahsknits

Pics of some items being blocked. I used to do full-blown pinned wet blocking, but have simplified my process recently.

Earlier this month, Franklin Habit taught three days of workshops for the Weavers Guild of St. Louis . The first day's subject was Mosaic Knitting.  After the workshop, I knit a small project using the technique. The yarn used is  Queensland Collection Brisbane - pure Australian superwash wool, 144 yds per ball, "5" weight (bulky or chunky weight). I purchased 2 balls at Knitorious recently - black and a black and white gradient. The yarn has a nice, squishy squeezability to it. The pattern is a modified version of the first Mosaic Knitting pattern in this Vogue Knitting magazine from 2014 (Winter 2014/15), which I happened to be paging through after the workshop.  (I also noticed a fair number of MK patterns in my back issues of Rowan magazine, although the technique is not labeled (never noticed before that the technique being used is never labeled in the Rowan magazines).)  I'm planning another project using the technique from the knitting plaid workshop th