Ammonite and the Grey Cone...
If you are reading this
post, I suppose you have seen Ammonite on Ravelry or on Flickr and
you might want to know a little more about the design process and my inspiration for the pattern. Perhaps you have merely stumbled upon
this blog because you are interested in knitwear design or maybe good, old Google directed you to this page because you are interested in
fossils.
If you are looking for
fossil - related information (and I don't mean the knitted kind), I
have to disappoint you, as I am going to talk about a knitting
pattern and, unless you are interested in knitting, what follows will
not be a great deal of help to you.
So, Ammonite...It's
probably best to start at the beginning. Roughly a year ago I was
browsing in a local charity shop and found a cone of grey DK - weight
yarn. There was no further information regarding the identity of the
yarn, only a label inside the cone stating it was an acrylic / wool
mix (30% wool, 70% acrylic). Having done a bit of research, I now
believe that the yarn was manufactured by Yeoman Yarns in Yorkshire,
an interesting yarn manufacturer, especially for the thrifty knitters amongst us. Yeoman's yarns come wrapped around cones, presumably targeting machine
knitters. (And the big advantage of yarn on cones is of course the fact that you won't run out of yarn during your project.)
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| Mietze inspecting |
As this poor, grey cone
was looking a little lonely, I decided to buy it at a bargain price
together with two others, one in heather and another in a light
creamy brown. The lovely people at the shop must have been glad to
see them go and included a pair of knitting needles at the till.
Here I was with my yarn bargains. I took them home, where they were
subjected to the usual "scratch and sniff " inspection by a
member of the feline quality control squad.
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| Grey Cone and Friends |
