Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Crafting On

Well, sometimes my work and my leisure get to intersect, and this was one of those times. 
I am teaching a class on Grettir, a sweater by Jared Flood of Brooklyn Tweed.
While I was planning out how to teach knitting fair isle in the round without a color jog I realized that if I cast on a few repeats of the yoke chart, in this case six repeats, I'd end up with a little tree.
Now I am all fired up to make lots of these with different yoke patterns and then I can have a fair isle forest decorating my Christmas village this year.
So, I ended up with an item that was very helpful as a class tool, but can also be completely frivolous at Christmas time.
What are you creating today?
Joining up with Nicole at Frontier Dreams

10 comments:

  1. That is absolutely lovely. What a great idea - you get a great decorative piece while teaching and your students get a decorative piece while learning. Clever.

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  2. wow! your tree looks great, what a wonderful idea

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  3. What a cool idea - I love your little tree! And you could make more for gifts. :)

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  4. Good luck with your class, this tree was a brilliant idea to practice fair isle!

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  5. Very cute. When I first saw your tree I thought it was a doorstop.

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  6. Very nice and ingenious ! I'm considering that pattern also.

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  7. That's a great idea!

    Cheers,
    Lynda.

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