Photography – Life & Fiber

16 Sept 18 — The very first leaves begin to turn

I was out with my service dog on our morning walk, enjoying the sunshine, and I looked up from her antics and saw that a few days had really changed things. Color was starting to tip the leaves, but not by much. Except for one tree who had a scarf of color all set out early, eager to hit the fall fashion runway. Who was I to deny? I took a picture.

23 Sept 18 — Draped with style in yellow & orange

It just can’t help itself. Look at how it carefully chooses it’s yellows and oranges in a serpentine streak through the tree, holding the green to keep a strong contrast. The other trees look a bit askance at it, being so bright so early, but it’s happy to show it’s colors.

29 Sept 18 — More orange, but happy with the look for now

For now, a week later, the tree has decided that orange is it’s happy color, and it’s only using yellow as an accent. We’re beginning to see a few hints of red, but I don’t think it will be a major player this year for this daring tree. Orange and yellow are the colors of choice, but don’t be surprised to see much more daring, and more widespread, uses of those shades!

Do you like my stitch marker? — Front view of hat—note how the curve is coming along!

I’ve been working on my Urban Aran Hat between messing around with my exhaust system and running around with my daily life. I’ve made some progress, but not as much as I’d hoped. Still, better than not having picked it up at all!

I knit hats on the smallest circular needles that I can. This cord is 6” long, and the shortest this interchangeable company makes (the needles make the circ bigger, naturally). This makes the knitting easier on me, as the stitches spring around with little effort. It does make the hat seem small, even if I did cast on almost 100 stitches in Aran weight yarn!

Urban Aran Hat—Top View, 29 rows — See how all the stitches are scrunched? When I start decreasing, it will pop open!

I’m getting much more comfortable with the pattern. I don’t need the key right now (although that will change once I pass this section!), and I rarely need to remind myself how to do the stitches.

I’m still not one of those people who can just drop the two stitches and cable, although I know it would be much faster. I grab my little cable holder and keep my sanity. However, there will come a day when I will do that!

Moss stitch continues to be fun, and I’m not understanding how people get lost in it. If the stitch below and behind is a 1 or a 0, do a 0 or a 1. It’s true it’s not explained that way. But maybe it’s more because I knit Continental so the switch is just a finger wave. I’ve heard so many horror stories about moss stitch. Tell me yours?

Thirty more rows to go on this hat! I’m not sure if it will be one or two more posts—we’ll see how fast it works up.

But how did I get that nice, flat picture without dropping stitches? Well…

Urban Aran Hat—Alt View, 29 rows — Front view only looks flat from a carefully chosen angle—camera tricks are your friends.

I didn’t. It’s a very pretty optical illusion based on angle, popping out and popping in until it looked ‘right’, and taking a bunch of pictures and re-doing until I had it just right. I didn’t even have to photoshop. 🙂 Never trust pictures!