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Colorsea
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“Sometimes words are not enough. Then serve the colors. And the shapes. And the notes. And the emotions.” (Alessandro Baricco)
Colorsea is a gorgeous triangular oversized shawl. That combines lovely graphic mosaic knitting in an eyecatching item. The mosaic motif is an easy to knit stitch pattern that uses slip stitches and only one colour for row but creates a fascinating result.
Use your creativity,imagination to pair your favorite colors.
I used cold soft colors, blue, gray and cream to reflect the sea feeling of winter in contrast with warm colors red, yellow, green to reflect passion, happines, cheerfulness, hope, ….
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Please note: the stitch patterns in this garment are written row by row and are charted
YARN
Sesia “Kintyre”, 1 skein blue color 2801, 2 skeins gray color 2896, 4 skeins cream color 1282, 1 skein light blue color 3414, 1 skein red color 466, 1 skein yellow color 2059, 1 skein green color 1177
(1 skein 50 g = 130 mt/142yds)
NEEDLES AND ACCESSORIES
1 pair 5 mm (US 8) knitting needles
TENSION
Gauge is not important as long as you like the fabric that you’ve created after blocking your swatch.
I used: row 5 mm (US 8) to get 17 sts x 24 rows = ~ 10 cm/4 inch in garter stitch after blocking
SIZE
210 cm / 82 inch wingspan along top edge and 80 cm / 31 inch width
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- First published: December 2016
- Page created: December 13, 2016
- Last updated: December 31, 2022 …
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