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Who-Cooks-For-You Pillow
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It is knitted! It is done! Finished off after a long hiatus for weather too warm to be knitting in. It is also more like 20" across. I know my tension was all over the place knitting this which may be the culprit. Used Jeny's Surprisingly Stretchy Bind Off. May have been too much. Now blocking!
It is knitted! It is done! Finished off after a long hiatus for weather too warm to be knitting in. It is also more like 20" across. I know my tension was all over the place knitting this which may be the culprit. Used Jeny's Surprisingly Stretchy Bind Off. May have been too much. Now blocking!
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a knitter within reach of a pattern's ending, must run out of a color her LYS doesn't stock halfway through the last row of its use.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a knitter within reach of a pattern's ending, must run out of a color her LYS doesn't stock halfway through the last row of its use.
Progress continues but is much slower out here in borderland.
Progress continues but is much slower out here in borderland.
Owls achieved. Much bordering yet to go.
Owls achieved. Much bordering yet to go.
Getting into the owl goggles.
Getting into the owl goggles.
Tension on the carried colors is something I've only had to deal with a couple times before, & have a tendency to knit tightly. I have gone through two phases of trying to loosen things up, but am still kind of worried. Left some excess in colors I'm worried about to try to stretch through.
Tension on the carried colors is something I've only had to deal with a couple times before, & have a tendency to knit tightly. I have gone through two phases of trying to loosen things up, but am still kind of worried. Left some excess in colors I'm worried about to try to stretch through.
Owl bottoms appear. Just after row 22 completed.
Owl bottoms appear. Just after row 22 completed.
about to switch to circular needles.
about to switch to circular needles.
IT BEGINS. On splintery wood needles that have been through a lot, because I haven't managed to get new DPNs yet.
IT BEGINS. On splintery wood needles that have been through a lot, because I haven't managed to get new DPNs yet.
The yarn! The yarn is here!
The yarn! The yarn is here!
REVISED - More in my notes, but this is the modified chart I made for the colors I'm working with. Excited! - PS, I recolored this but it's properly copyright Jenise Hope, the pattern creator.
REVISED - More in my notes, but this is the modified chart I made for the colors I'm working with. Excited! - PS, I recolored this but it's properly copyright Jenise Hope, the pattern creator.
This is Deep Ocean Green, the background color I'm using.
This is Deep Ocean Green, the background color I'm using.
These are all the colors of Catona, and the image from which I created the swatches to make my color-switched chart. I ended up shopping from a UK site because I couldn't find all the ones I wanted elsewhere. PS - Copyright Scheepjes, not me.
These are all the colors of Catona, and the image from which I created the swatches to make my color-switched chart. I ended up shopping from a UK site because I couldn't find all the ones I wanted elsewhere. PS - Copyright Scheepjes, not me.
This is my first draft extremely dorkly approximation of how the thing should look with the colors I'm using. Note that especially around inside edges, because the knit pillow front is designed to bulge out rather than be flat, are fudged. - PS, I fiddled with this but it's from an original pattern copyright Jenise Hope, the pattern creator.
This is my first draft extremely dorkly approximation of how the thing should look with the colors I'm using. Note that especially around inside edges, because the knit pillow front is designed to bulge out rather than be flat, are fudged. - PS, I fiddled with this but it's from an original pattern copyright Jenise Hope, the pattern creator.
So the rusty colored thing we're on is the couch these pillows will go on, and the carpet I want them to coordinate with visible in the upper left - and I'm snuggling the reason I needed to go with waterproof and relatively disaster proof yarn as much as possible.
So the rusty colored thing we're on is the couch these pillows will go on, and the carpet I want them to coordinate with visible in the upper left - and I'm snuggling the reason I needed to go with waterproof and relatively disaster proof yarn as much as possible.
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December 27, 2022
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Who-Cooks-For-You Pillow

Project info
The Owl by Jenise Hope
Knitting
Pillow
16"
Needles & yarn
US 2 - 2.75 mm
8 stitches and 9 rows = 1 inch
in stranded colorwork
Scheepjes Catona
1102 yards in stash
391 Deep Ocean Green
Wool Warehouse
December 26, 2022
Notes

Wanted to use something machine washable and pest-problem-free in light of the chaos that seeps into my house at the slightest provocation. Found that the mercerized cotton I settled on was least expensive from the UK, which was unexpected.

12-27-2022

I fiddled around with the Blue Seas color scheme for this pattern in Adobe Illustrator, because… I am a ginormous design nerd?

First, I made a palette of swatches from the colors of yarn I got for my pillow-making project. I found a photo of all the colorways for Catona, from which to eyedroppered these colors, so they’re not perfect but they’re reasonable facsimiles for the purpose at hand.

Deep Ocean Green is the background color I intent to use for at least 4 Aviary pillows. They’re going on a rust-colored couch in a room with a deep-ocean-green-ish tree-of-life carpet. I got more accent colors than I’m going to use on this pillow, which I hope to use in others, but I think the common background color and some common accents will pull them all together.

I made the palette of all the different colors of Catona I got and then selected all squares with each of the original Blue Seas colors and tried my different Catona colorways in their place. My color scheme ended up using a yellow-green color for two areas that were different colors in Blue Seas, so there’s one less swatch in my legend at the bottom. I’m also working toward 16” pillows and I just took the borders and such out to simplify envisioning the final product.

I may break down and copy the chart 4 times and rotate it into the … oh, heck, now I kind of have to do that, to get an idea of what the whole thing will look like.

Still, though, I think this process is replicable for anyone else out there who has Adobe Illustrator, and possibly even with photoshop or GIMP or suchlike. And it was kind of fun and will, I hope, save me from mistakes in translation I’d probably make if I hadn’t done this.

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About this pattern
The Owl
by Jenise Hope
from Aviary 3
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About this yarn
Catona
by Scheepjes
Fingering
100% Cotton
138 yards / 50 grams

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  • Project created: December 26, 2022
  • In progress: December 26, 2022
  • Updated: October 18, 2023
  • Progress updates: 3 updates