Tag: decoration

Little pumpkins

I was really hoping to show you a monster today, but there were technical difficulties. So here are some emergency pumpkins.

pumpkins

And here’s the pattern! (conventions and abbreviations here)

1. Form magic ring, ch 1, and sc 5 in ring. Tighten.
2. Sc, *2sc, sc* twice (7 sc). Finish off beginning yarn end.
3. 2sc around (14 sc).
4. *2sc, sc* around (21 sc).
5-8. Sc around (4 rnds).
9. *Dec, sc* around (14 sc).
10. Dec around (7 sc). Stuff!
11. Sc, *dec, sc* twice (5 sc).
Use the perfect finish and thread the yarn through the middle of the pumpkin and out through the magic ring before you tighten; stitch back and forth between rounds 1 and 11 to pull the middle of the pumpkin top and bottom together. FO.

Add a stem or a face as desired. I threaded two pieces of brown yarn into the top of the pumpkin, crosswise, and interleaved square knots (right over left for each pair followed by left over right for each, etc) and then made an overhand knot to finish off.

Happy Halloween!

Saturation

The finished quilt: a 6″ by 6″ piece titled Saturation. It will be shown at an art fair on Wednesday.

complete!

The title came before the design; I was considering a quilt of leaf-patterned fabrics but just wasn’t feeling it, and the Feeling Stitchy August stitchalong was on my brain as well. I started looking at the fabrics and seeing what I liked, and the rich, saturated colors were the ones that grabbed me. Colors are saturated when they are very far from a gray of the same lightness. I think of saturated colors as being Very: very intense, very themselves. They don’t have to be dark or primary colors, but they are not going to be neutral.

On top of the saturated colors I saturated the quilt with embroidery. I tried to find a way to put an additional level of saturation into the quilt but I didn’t want to be so literal as to make it evoke the molecular structure of a saturated fat, or the mathematical structure of a saturated bipartite graph. Two levels will do.

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