Saturday, February 10, 2007

Striped seamless raglan pullover with cables and epaulettes

From Craft Photos


Wow, this sweater took me forever! I started it this last June and I just finished it at my company's holiday ski party this February. This is the first really large object with a cable I have done and this is the 3rd time I have made the Elizabeth Zimmerman Knitting Without Tears raglan pullover sweater. Features include:
1. 1x1 ribbed waistband, cuffs and neck.
2. 1x1 ribbed sidepanels that decrease to the armpits.
3. 4 cables of predominantly p2,k2,p1,k2,p2 repeat pattern with both crossover and "S" cabling.

Klamath yellow mugs with ultramarine and saturation metallic.





This is a set of mugs I made from Klamath yellow scraps I had left over from previous projects. (Most of which died horrible deaths or abominable undeaths.) You will ocassionally see white horizontal agate effects that are white porcelain that were just incidentally part of the scraps. I love these mugs. I am getting to the point where I can make a really pleasing mug 3 times out of 5. I am still having trouble making handles symmetrically but I love the product. I think if I try really really hard, I can make 10 each term and have enough for christmas/anniversary/Christmas presents all year. I love each and everyone of these silly little mugs!

Morgans fruitbowl #3 with ultramarine drizzles and rutile blue crazing

This large fruitbowl is the 3rd in a series of 3 Morgans clay bowls that I dressed simply to emphasize the natural warmth of the clay. In addition to the clear semigloss and ultramarine drizzles, I added rutile blue to the outer surface that crazed and crackled with the semigloss.

Morgans fruitbowl #2 with ultramarine drizzles


Again with the Morgans, semi-gloss clear and ultramarine drizzles. This is dressed with ultramarine droplets on the outer surface.

Morgans fruitbowl with ultramarine drizzles


This is part of a set of pieces I did with Morgans clay (a light brown with flecks of black.) I was particularly pleased with the throwing consistency and amount of grogg. Maybe I got lucky but I got some good pieces out of this loaf of clay.

This piece is glazed with a simple semigloss clear and drizzled with ultramarine blue and I think rutile blue.