A number of years ago a friend (Hi Margaret!) told me about the amazing knitting and crocheting that Prudence Mapstone makes. Last year I saw her at a craft fair and was inspired but also quite overwhelmed by what she makes. This year I saw her again and, after my forays into knitting and crocheting over the last year, I was less intimidated by the thought of giving it a go. So I bought her book and some (more) yarn and I’m doing it! I don’t like the way this looks just yet but I think it’s one of those processes that needs to be pushed through the “ugly stage”. I can see that I need more fuzzy stuff to soften the overall look of it and I also think I need to make quite a lot more of it before I’ll really have any idea of what it will look like.
The idea at this stage is to make a jacket that is dark at the bottom (black, gray and very dark blue, green and purple), quickly transition it to greens and then to pink, lilac and finally off-whites. I want it to look like a garden.
It will probably look more like a frog-pond and never get finished. I don’t even know if I like the imagined thing in my head let alone the real thing!