On Fridays, I try to post about my various knitting projects. This week, I was sure I’d be able to show you a finished cardigan, but not so. As I was sewing it up on Monday, I discovered that the sleeves were too narrow. In olden days – i.e. before this year’s drive to finish the U.F.O.’s – I would have chucked it back in the knitting basket to let it wait a while before I frogged and fixed it.
No more. I ripped back the sleeves right away and am in the midst of reknitting them. With any luck, I’ll be able to show you the finished sweater next week.
But that meant no post for this week. Instead, here’s some fibrey eye candy for you. I’ve admired the quilts of Paula Nadelstern for a long time, and recently bought a book by her on her art and her technique. It’s called KALEIDOSCOPE QUILTS: AN ARTIST’S JOURNEY CONTINUES. The book is beautiful because her quilts are beautiful, but the technical section is also very interesting. I still am amazed and somewhat mystified by her quilts, but this book has given me a better understanding of the variables in designing and making a kaleidoscope medallion. I’m hoping to give it a try in the fall.
In the meantime, here’s a link to her site. Enjoy her wonderful work!
Deborah Cooke: Author 
4 responses to “Friday Fun”
Are you reknitting those sleeves two at a time, or just one at a time? (Of course, this assumes they’re set in sleeves…)
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One at a time. I’m using my Brittany needles, which are a bit shorter, and it was crowded when I knit two at once. Since I need to make them both wider, one at a time seemed to be the way to go.
Finishing the cap on the second one, so that wasn’t too painful. I just had to rip them back to the elbow, then add a few more increases.
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I saw a little piece on her when watching Simply Quilts (I think it was called). I was amazed to learn she made those wonderful quilts in a teeny tiny work space. Of course that was about 10 years ago, so who knows, she may have moved into a huge studio by now :-}
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She says in this book that she used to work in her kitchen and sewed on a Featherweight. SInce her child moved out, she’s claimed that bedroom for her studio, and bought a Pfaff. Still, she’s in Manhattan so it’s probably not a huge room! Her stash must be enough to fill an apartment in itself.
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