fiber arts!

Discussion in 'Make It So' started by jacktrash, Jun 3, 2015.

  1. Imoyram

    Imoyram Well-Known Member

    Oh man I remember this. My mom was like "haha great idea but like 1/3 the year would be purple you might as well be making a purple blanket"

    For reference, I'm in a town close to Winnipeg Manitoba, and from like, November to early march, everything is cold and awful.
     
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  2. blue

    blue hightown funk you up

    I suppose you could adjust the temperature ranges?
     
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  3. EulersBidentity

    EulersBidentity e^i*[bi] + 1

    Totally. Aqua to soft fern all year round. Maybe a couple of weeks of teal and foliage.
     
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  4. Imoyram

    Imoyram Well-Known Member

    I suppose so. I'm not actually mad fyi. I find it amusing.
    I dont even know how to crochet, but the idea is cool.
     
  5. blue

    blue hightown funk you up

    don't worry, I didn't think you were mad :)

    I didn't realize it was crochet and not knit! I guess it would be easier as crochet cuz you'd have a finished blanket after each row rather than having to leave it on the needles, right?
     
  6. EulersBidentity

    EulersBidentity e^i*[bi] + 1

    @blue that's a good idea! Though I think I might feel like I was misleading people, somehow...
    "Oh yeah, this is my weather blanket. The purple bits are from when it was really cold, like, 2°C. And the red bits are from the 23° heatwave in August. Gosh but that was a sweltering week."
     
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  7. Imoyram

    Imoyram Well-Known Member

    We would have a variety of colours, but only for a range of months. Someone from here could do it by just adding more colours after the purple, for -11C to-20C, -21C to -30C, -30C to -40C, and -40C to -50C.

    It gets very cold here.
     
  8. Re Allyssa

    Re Allyssa Sylph of Heart

    I finally finished one of the presents for my coworkers!
    I think it came out rather nice, but next time I'm going to try to center the text so that there's less whitespace between it and the shield.
    [​IMG]
    Also, @Aya-non I changed the pattern a little so that it's more symmetrical. So here it is if you want.
    pattern.gif
     
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  9. Aya-non

    Aya-non Well-Known Member

  10. Kaylotta

    Kaylotta Writer Trash

    yeah i really like that blanket idea, too, but the range would definitely have to be expanded. XD which, well, could make for a really nice blanket. very gradient. you could get into darker purples, then black, then fade into grays for the really cold stuff? i dunno
     
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  11. rats

    rats 21 Bright Forge Shatters The Void

    ooh i....really want to do that blanket because i live someplace with weather that hits all those colors

    maybe ill start one next new years..............
     
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  12. Imoyram

    Imoyram Well-Known Member

    @rats you could always use a different date, for example my parents anniversary is on feb 1, so starting it then for me might mean that I could give it to them as a gift the next year, but if you did it on say, your birthday, you'd have a nice blanket for your next birthday.
     
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  13. Kaylotta

    Kaylotta Writer Trash

    *does NOT want to be exceedingly anal and assign shades of the gradient to every degree between -45C and +45C, nope not her*

    ...maybe five degree bands...
     
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  14. Imoyram

    Imoyram Well-Known Member

    I'm confused as to why they picked every like, six? degrees?
    Like, whyyyyyy
    why six?
     
  15. Kaylotta

    Kaylotta Writer Trash

    It's roughly every ten in Fahrenheit.
     
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  16. Imoyram

    Imoyram Well-Known Member

    Ah.

    That explains it.
     
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  17. blue

    blue hightown funk you up

    (excited grabby hands)

    I just ordered a bunch of yaaarn

    Knitpicks! 2x Wool of the Andes in Haze Heather for a hat I'm making for a friend, one Stroll Hand-Painted in Make Believe because hey, it's on sale, and one Billow in Cadet because if it's a *good* cotton yarn I may absolutely love it but it has mixed reviews.

    Eeeee I'm so excited
     
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  18. EulersBidentity

    EulersBidentity e^i*[bi] + 1

    Pics? (I'm lazy and on my phone, but I could google them later.)
     
  19. blue

    blue hightown funk you up

    Wool of the Andes Haze Heather:
    image.jpg
    Billow Cadet (cotton!!):
    image.jpg
    Stroll Make Believe:
    image.jpg
     
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  20. blue

    blue hightown funk you up

    The one thing that makes me DESPAIR is that a lot of the colorways for Stroll are gone. Like, look at the third from the left in this photo:

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    I want it so badly.
     
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