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September 6, 2013 Leave a Comment

Another Angle

Colinton Australia MohairI’m embarking on an exploration of what variations of St Petersburg might look like.  I love St Petersburg, but I am aware that not everyone is going to want to knit it.  I am also aware that I don’t want to knit a stockinette sweater, so there has to be some happy medium.

Frog Tree Brushed SuriThe first thing I’ve done is find two other lovely mohairs to use.  They are really different, and give a really different look to the very same knitting–but they all achieve the same gauge.  Whoo hoo!  That has possibilities which are almost exponential.  If every piece I create can be knitted in any of these three yarns and each will have a slightly different look (and price tag), then if I create variations on the original St P’s, the number of variations I create can be multiplied by three.  If I also create additional types of pieces, say a shawl, or accessories, and they can each be multiplied by three, whomever buys one of the patterns will be buying the possibility of three variations.  Now if I made this into a collection of 12 patterns, and each could be made in the three yarns, you could create 36 pieces before you repeated yourself.  That seems pretty cool to me.  I am in the process of making this happen.

When I was talking to the owner of Colinton Australia she told me to be sure I washed my swatch.  Sadly, I forgot to take a picture of my swatches (the first above) prior to washing them.  I can tell you with a fair level of confidence, that my stockinette was really uneven when I was knitting it.  It is the top of the banana-colored swatch.  It was actually shockingly uneven.  At first I thought it was because I was drinking a martini, but when I redid it another night, it was almost as bad.

I considered doing them over on non-metal needles.  But, lacking time, I just did my swatches and moved on, telling myself I would wash them and see what happened.   A happy result!

This is the Russian Ballet Collection.  It is still being choreographed!

Be Sweet Brushed Mohair

 

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