albers saltire
Finished
August 20, 2020
October 4, 2020

albers saltire

Project info
Knitting
approx 36”sq
Needles & yarn
US 00 - 1.75 mm
15 stitches = 2 inches
in square
1,744 yards = 8 skeins
Knit Picks Felici Fingering Weight
none left in stash
4 skeins = 872.0 yards (797.4 meters), 200 grams
Red
knit picks
August 13, 2020
Knit Picks Felici Fingering Weight
none left in stash
2 skeins = 436.0 yards (398.7 meters), 100 grams
Multicolored
knit picks
August 13, 2020
Knit Picks Felici Fingering Weight
none left in stash
2 skeins = 436.0 yards (398.7 meters), 100 grams
Multicolored
knit picks
August 13, 2020
Notes

August 20, 2020

yarn for the red one, albers saltire 1, has arrived. casting on.

August 21, 2020

spent the morning designing it…

September 12, 2020

it finally identified itself!

Homage to the Square:Accomplished as a designer, photographer, typographer, printmaker, and poet, Albers is best remembered for his work as an abstract painter and theorist. He favored a very disciplined approach to composition, especially in the hundreds of paintings and prints that make up the series Homage to the Square. In this rigorous series, begun in 1949, Albers explored chromatic interactions with nested squares. Usually painting on Masonite, he used a palette knife with oil colors and often recorded the colors he used on the back of his works. Each painting consists of either three or four squares of solid planes of color nested within one another, in one of four different arrangements and in square formats ranging from 406×406 mm to 1.22×1.22 m.

October 4, 2020

albers saltire1 finished.
three colorways, 15 different colors.

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Finished
August 20, 2020
October 4, 2020
About this pattern
Personal pattern (not in Ravelry)
About this yarn
by Knit Picks
Fingering
75% Merino, 25% Nylon
218 yards / 50 grams

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  • Project created: August 13, 2020
  • Updated: November 13, 2020
  • Progress updates: 5 updates