KITCHEN HANG OUT

I thought I'd create a common space for whatever purpose it is needed for.

We are all looking for a solution to the problem of iPhone photos being uploaded so they present on their sides. Some of us have a rather tedious solution for it involving rotating it 360º in a photo program, saving it and then uploading it, BUT, if anyone has a simpler solution we're listening.

I haven't really broached the subject with my kids or their spouses because none of them are on LT....

Has the issue ever been broached with the LT team? How would we do that?

Apologies if this is a stupid question (I'm far from a technological expert): is it at all related to how your phone is positioned when you take the photo (held upright or sideways)? If so, then you should be able just to flip the image on your phone before uploading it, I think...?

>3 scaifea: No, it is not, that's what is so annoying. Still does it with my new iphone8. We shall carry on.

I often attend to authors I recognize, when they appear on the "On this day" feature on LT's home page, and today, it was Judith Durant (Happy Birthday to her today, too!). She didn't seem like the type that would have spawned a Wikipedia page, so I knew finding information might not be so simple. What I did find was useful and fun, and I thought I'd put it here, in the Kitchen Hang Out (where I spent a lot of youthful happy days, I should add).

It starts off with a list of her books (all those one-skein wonders, one of which I own), but page down to Related Articles for the rewards. It looks like a very handy resource, and it makes me long to take up the crochet hook (but there's just too much else on my plate, and conscience won't let me).

http://www.storey.com/author/judith_durant/

Where did everyone go? Seems it's just been Laura/Knitting and the quilters still here hanging out. Has a better group been found?

I miss the variety.

Absolutely no better group for this.

I'm still here! I quilt, knit, sew, cross stitch and applique. Oh and scrapbook and make cards. Is that enough variety?? LOL!

Right now, about the only thing I do is ignore the wall hanging project on my dining room table. I keep saying one of these days...but that hasn't happened yet. Maybe today?

I'm still here, too, just not having much time for sewing projects. Hopefully I'll have something to report soon...

Good to know... :-)

I set up a 2018 thread since my old one had a 2016 date on it.

I will be doing some rug hooking later this spring with a Jacobean/Crewel theme, in a workshop "Is it Jacobean or Crewel?" Does anyone have some suggestions for background reading on the designs, motifs and colours?

>13 SassyLassy: Right now, I'm so overwhelmed that LT is my only rest. I have books on both of these, although I have no idea whether I've been smart enough to have cataloged them. I have even done both types (and they're VERY similar, and yet different).

http://www.librarything.com/work/56506/book/104592292 (Victoria & Albert Museum)

http://www.librarything.com/work/8808079/book/104598900 (Dainty Work)

This book is entirely on line, here:
https://archive.org/details/fancyworkforplea00hero

http://www.librarything.com/work/100024/book/104598423 (Mary, Queen of Scots, and her work. This is still available on Amazon, to my amazement, and appears to have been updated.)

There are more, but perhaps looking at those will help for now.

>14 Lyndatrue: Thanks so much for these suggestions. I am quite taken with the Mary Queen of Scots book, as well as Dainty Work. Looking at these naturally led me to all kinds of other titles on LT, which is always a wonderful pursuit. I think I will have to investigate blackwork some time too. Oh for more time!

>13 SassyLassy: How interesting! It would be lovely if you could share some of your work when completed!

So I went to a local quilt show today and thought I'd post a couple of pictures. Apologies for some of the orientation - they were taken with my iPhone and I can't be bothered trying to spin them.

This quilt was best in show. It's made from men's silk ties:



There were actually a few quilts made from ties, so it must have been a theme or something this year. I thought this worked well because she managed to use one tie in each corner of the block. I was going to do a bow tie block quilt with some of my husband's ties, but I think this pineapple block looks great.

This one is one that I thought was really well done. I've took a class once with the girl who made it and she does some really nice work. I mean - curved flying geese!



And I took some pictures of this one because I know how much Lois likes Fassett fabrics and, if these aren't, they're very similar.

Oh - there was one other quilt that I meant to mention. I didn't get a picture but one lady used the Crown Royal logo from the bags the bottle comes in in a quilt for her brother-in-law (?). Most of them were from the usual purple bags, but there were also some black and gray ones.

>18 dudes22: do you mean she used the logo and fabric from the actual bags? Seems like it would take a lot of bags to make a quilt. I'm chuckling to myself about how one would rationalize their conspicuous Crown Royal consumption to family members.

>19 lauralkeet: - Well the logos and some of the fabric around it and then some other fabrics too. I didn't mean to imply she just used the bags. I'm going to look when I go to the liquor store and see if there is more than one on a bag. There were quite a few of them.

>17 dudes22: Gorgeous quilts.

Oh, those are lovely, Betty, thanks for posting them. I like that first tie quilt. It's a nice pattern for using ties. And yes, most of those seem to be KF fabrics, and an interesting way to use them!

I'm hoping to get to the Chelmsford, MA show in May.

Wow, this place has gone quiet. Speaking for myself, I've been working a bit more, and have been busy with spring clean-ups, both indoors and out. I've also been reading and helping some relatives out on Ancestry.com...all of which means I haven't been sewing.

>23 avaland: Here's some astonishing entertainment, then. By way of explanation...

I usually choose authors from the "On This Day" entry on the home page to check up on, and fix (and there's cleanup necessary about 1/3 of the time). I'd been looking at James Beard, and noticed, over on Wikipedia, on his page, a reference to Helen Evans Brown, and down the rabbit hole I went. Among other things, I found this delightful discussion of her library, and some of her past life, and even posted it as a link on her author page here.

https://sandychatter.wordpress.com/2011/07/23/six-degrees-of-separation-what-i-k...

It was written in 2011, but is as fresh as this morning's dew. I'm still looking around for a nice photo for HEB; the one on Wikipedia is encumbered, and I prefer to get ones that don't require permission. Helen was a remarkable soul, as well. The Wikipedia page for her reads like a novel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Evans_Brown

I've not been sewing much at all, either. We're gearing up for a big move (from Wisconsin to Ohio) in August, so I've been a bit preoccupied with that lately.

>24 Lyndatrue: That is intriguing. I am glad there are people like you out there making LT a better place.

>25 scaifea: Having moved just 4 years ago, I sympathize! (I packed up a lot of my fabric in giant Ziploc bags that I bought at the now defunct Linen & Shade bin. I taped them also to be sure they wouldn't bust open in process, but they were great "padding" around other things.

>26 avaland: That's a great packing idea! All of my fabric already lives in those big rubbermaid tubs, though...

>27 scaifea: - Those will be heavy to move. We moved last year and my husband whined about move the fabric and my books. Go figure! Wish I’d thought about clear bags.

>27 scaifea: Some of mine were in big tubs, but much of it was separated by color or designer in the small sweater box size bins. That's the fabric that went into those giant Ziploc bags. I never went back to using those sweater bins....I wanted it all more accessible....wanted to be able see & touch it....so they are on bookshelves (there is a bin of special occasion fabric from my sewing and Victorian Crazy Quilt days; and a bin of old needlework from my various female ancestors.

Which, btw, brings me to a little story. I am an Ancestry.com junkie and recently a young guy was matched via DNA to me and I sent him a note explaining that it looked like his grandmother was my 2nd cousin, as she & I shared great grandparents. His grandmother was a sister to my grandmother. So, I got out my grandmother's autograph quilt and sure enough there was a square embroidered by her sister on the quilt. I took a picture of it and sent it him (he was headed to VT from VA to go see his grandparents and I thought his grandmother might get a kick out of seeing the square).

I have posted photos of the three quilts I have to the Ancestry profile pages of the two women (my grandmother & great grandmother) who made them. My tree is public and this allows others to see them and post them to their trees if they have the same people. Both of these women worked in the mills, as did my mother in WWII.

>29 avaland: Very cool about the Ancestry link and the quilt signatures!

>29 avaland: that's a really interesting story! You're lucky to have an heirloom like that, and it really does make those ancestry connections richer.

Thanks. The men have left their signatures all over wills and other legal documents for hundreds of years, I just want to rescue a few women from obscurity.

I love that.

That's a really cool story avaland, if you get to hear about the grandmother's reaction, let us know!

I saw this on Ravelry this morning and it just cracked me up. The Raveler writes, "That time your colourwork swatch fit the cat and you decide to make it a cat sweater….yup, my cat and i have matching sweaters."

That is pretty funny!

>36 avaland: can you see the photos, Lois? I realized later they might not come across for everyone.

I can see them! That is really funny. The cat looks a little dubious, though.

>37 lauralkeet: Oh yes, of course!

This question comes from avaland's posting yesterday of her latest quilt. In the bottom right hand corner, you can see a label on the turned up edge. My question and something I always wonder about is

How do people here label items they have made?

Do you have personalized labels, computer generated labels, or what?

Do you put information beyond date and maker (designer, name of project if any, small history, who it's for, etc) on it?

Do you keep a log, database or some other record of projects completed and/or in progress?

Okay, that actually went into questions, not question, but once I posed the first one, all kinds of others popped into my mind!

I don't label as a general rule. Mostly, I do this out of laziness; but it fits with my philosophy that most quilts are utilitarian objects and don't need labels to be loved or offer comfort. And yes, I have a tendency to cut out labels in my clothes. Also, I have known where all but one of my quilts went.

Only this year have I made an effort to document my work. I do have photos of all of my quilts; but I have a notebook with ideas and design now.

Ravelry is my "LT for knitting." I document everything: books in my knitting library (even though they are also on LT), the yarn in my stash, needles, projects/patterns I like, projects in my queue, and actual projects in-progress or complete. Projects include photos. If I made it for someone else, that would be noted.

My mom used labels on her quilts, which was nice for the ones she made my daughters. Also, after she passed away and I took possession of some of her work, I appreciated that she put her name and date on the piece.

I belonged to a quilt guild for a while and put one of my quilts in a show. They required a label so - right now - that's the only one that has a label. It has my name and address and a name for the quilt. Since we moved last year, I'm thinking that I'll take that label off and make another one. But, so far, that's the only quilt that has a label. Most of the quilts I give away are baby quilts which I hope will wear out from use, so I don't label them.

But, I've also decided that I should make some labels for my quilts so that people know which one they're getting when I die. (OK - so that's a little morbid.) I bought some paper-backed fabric to put in my printer to make labels. I'm a little concerned that it says "dry-clean only" so I'm going to wait til I get back to the quilt store to ask. I think I'll probably just put my name and year and give each quilt some kind of name. (If I can remember when I made some.)

I've read some articles that say you should also put laundry instructions on the label. Sad to say I don't keep any list of what I've made. I wish I had done that when I started quilting. I come across fabrics in my stash that show that I've used them and I have no recollection of what I used them for.

>43 dudes22: On labeling quilts your quilts so people know which one they're getting: not morbid at all! I appreciated my mom's labeling just because I knew when each one was made, but she never specified what to do with them upon her death and I wish she had done so.

>44 lauralkeet: - I'm planning on making a list eventually to leave with my will. My mother-in-law always wanted us to put our names on labels to put on the back of things we wanted when she died.

For those who can't see in the photo that sassylassy is referring to, that label is a simple one that says: Nana-made for Rory, September 2018. I kept it simple because I really don't expect the quilt to last. I also printed up some very simple ones for the charity quilts that just say: "Made for You by Lois A" All of these are framed by strips for fabric, because I find the treated photo fabric difficult to get a needle through by hand.

I do make more elaborate labels. Sometimes, I have even used a photo, when I thought it appropriate. One the quilt made on the occasion of my younger dauuhter's wedding, I added a photo of the happy couple. And since this quilt was made mostly from small waste triangles from the wedding quilt I added a photo of that quilt to the label.



I'll come back with a photograph of another favorite quilt label, if I can find it.

To exhibit the big scrappy quit in the big quilt show, there was specific information required. For most of my big quilts, they have labels stating the name of the quilt (if I've given it one), the date or dates made, my name as maker, the machine quilter's name and any special message. I used to do these via Photoshop and printed on the special photo fabric, but now I just use a word processing program. I will see if I can find examples. Lately, labels have felt like last minute things to do....

Here is a photo of the label on a lap quilt I made for my mother in 2007. She was in a care home with Alzheimers and most of her memories at that point were from her childhood, teens or early 20s (hard to tell, but definitely before marriage and children). I thought she might like the photo.

Sadly, after her death in 2009 it was found that the quilt had disappeared.



I have also put quotes on some quilt labels.

About a log: I think I have taken photos of every quilt (missed the 2nd quilt in the early 80s). I tried using one of those quilting journals but found them not conducive to what I wanted to record, so more recently I started using blank journals. I write what I want and stick a photo or two with it. A few years back I made a spreadsheet listing every quilt made since 1982(?), at that time I had made 45 quilts total, most of those in the last 20-25 because before that I was still making clothing for myself and the girls. Now, I've been thinking about doing an photo album of quilts via Vistaprint or something similar....have any of you done that?

>41 lesmel: While I do think a quilt doesn't require a label, I think of the heirloom quilts I own and those I have seem come through the New England museum on documentation days and wish they had had labels and dates.

Ironically, my mother started quilting in the early 80s about the same time I did (she was really big into the log cabin pattern and that colonial blue & pink calico) and she made quilts for my 4 siblings but not me.

>47 avaland: Wonderful label. How terrible that the quilt has disappeared.

Such personalized labels seem to me like a gift tag that will never be lost, something the recipient will always have with the gift.

It's interesting that while quilt guilds and repositories would like all quilts to have a label, so many people above send their quilts and other carefully made items out into the world without any information, feeling the quilt will not last. I have picked up quilts at auctions and always wonder who made them and under what circumstances. It's a form of mental thanks to someone I will never know. They don't need to be heirloom quality for these thoughts to wing their way into the ether. Imagine if you found one with a personalized quotation and other information, such as avaland mentions. You could spend hours contemplating the origins.

I have a small hooked piece a friend made for me when I moved last year. She attached a computerized fabric label to the back marking the move and the group I was leaving, and herself as the maker of it. It means a lot looking at it, and I always think of the extra care she took to do this.

As for myself, I naturally don't follow this advice. I put my full initials and the year on the back of my finished hookings. I do however have a spreadsheet of what I have made, the materials, the cut or cuts (size of strip), the date completed, and the designer if it is a commercial pattern.

I have another spreadsheet for knitted items, which includes where I can find the pattern again. Maybe some day I will "upgrade" to >42 lauralkeet: 's level of documentation!

>49 SassyLassy: I admit to being a little obsessed with lists, spreadsheets, and keeping track of things. 😀

>49 SassyLassy: I have an unfinished (no backing) Victorian crazy quilt that was made by my great grandmother and the reason I know that is she left her beautifully embroidered initials—M.A.Y.—in the quilt.

What a lovely gift from a friend.

I suspect I will not upgrade my documentation. It will not have much meaning for my children, but I refer to it from time to time (and I hope to make a quilt from pieces from every quilt I've made. However it occurs to me that so many of my quilts a scrappy that they can't be represented by a particular piece of fabric... Perhaps I should stick to a Vista Print album idea.

Bumping this up in hopes that now that it is fall others will come back to the kitchen.

Do you trust yourself enough to eat and/or drink while you are working on your projects?

>52 SassyLassy: ha ha! no. And I usually wash my hands before starting.

My husband's cousin and I went to the Quilt Festival today. We saw half the exhibit quilts and half the vendors and are going back tomorrow to see the other half. I was amazed at how big it is. Those of you who have been reading my posts on my thread know about the red and white quilt I am making. There was a blue one at the show and so I thought I would take a picture to give you an idea of what it's supposed to look like when I finish it. It was part of a special exhibit of blue quilts.

For some reason my phone battery was way low from using my map program to get us there and I forgot to charge it in the car so this is the only other picture I managed to take today. This is the quilt that won the prize with the most money - $12,500. I think it was sponsored by Gamill, but maybe not. I found it interesting that the year is at the bottom of the quilt. If you could see the quilting from the back, you would understand why it won.



I'll try to get some more pictures tomorrow. It hard to decide there are so many interesting ones.

I was very restrained in my purchasing today. A few more pieces of fabric for my red/white quilt. I have half an empty suitcase that I need to fill up so more purchases tomorrow.

I'm glad you are enjoying the show, Betty!! Hope you haven't blown your budget with the vendors! (LOL). Those are some great quilts. Enjoy your vacation!

Today we saw the other half of the quilts we didn't see yesterday. These were special exhibitions and not judged. There was a display of Baltimore album quilts including this one :



I probably should have picked one with a lighter background. They always impress me.

Probably because I've been working on pineapple blocks for my red/white quilt, I was very attracted to the pineapple blocks quilts. Here are a couple I took for inspiration:

And here's a picture of a quilt that I thought Lois would like as it's very scrappy. I was also impressed with the explanation:



(Do you see where it says 100 blocks in 100 days?)

And lastly, this quilt was so impressive. It's actually three panels with applique and embroidery. The second picture is a close up of one of the elements and the third is one of the embroidered sections. I thought I had taken a picture of the explanation but it turned out to be my foot. It explained what it was based on and has something to do with theorems, and mathematical formulas, etc. Very interesting.

I did buy some more fabric today although not as much as I expected. I get overwhelmed with how much there was and chose only a little bit. And I actually met one of the ladies that owned the quilt shop in town who retired a year or so ago. I've run into her at local quilt shows but almost backed into her at one of the booths today.

>61 dudes22: I suppose it's too late to beg, although I'll try, just the same. I would truly love to see the description of the quilt that you traded for a photograph of your foot.

It's a pity that our local county fair has made it difficult for quilters to display their efforts (by requiring submissions to be done via an online form), and this quilt show you've attended reminds me of earlier days.

Beautiful work, all of them.

>63 Lyndatrue: - I can't go back this weekend because we've already made other plans, unfortunately. I should have checked which pictures I had taken before we left today. Live and learn.

>64 dudes22: No worries. I appreciate the photographs, and am grateful that you are an excellent photographer of them. :-}

Betty, thanks for sharing the quilt show with us! It looks amazing. That top quilt in >59 dudes22: reminds me of one Lois made recently.

Thanks for the photos, Betty. The pineapples are very interesting. Re the 100 in 100 days one: Did she do all of the pieces in the pineapple block in the same basic color? I can't quite tell, but I can't seem to distinguish what pattern she used (the dominant color radiating to the corners or the flat sides).

>66 lauralkeet: - I thought the one in #60 was more like what she did only because it's more scrappy.

>67 avaland: - Yes - they were the same basic color group around a center green square.

>61 dudes22: & >63 Lyndatrue: I've hunted on instagram for that quilt...but I haven't found it yet. I'm sort of stunned that of the 100s of photos that have been posted no one seems to have posted that quilt. I'm also gutted that I didn't know there was a Bob Ross exhibit. I might have crawled across broken glass (not all that different from driving into town, parking at GRB, and fighting the hordes of quilter/crafter people and baseball people) to see that exhibit. I lurv Bob Ross!

Today is Fibonacci Day. For those not familiar - Fibonacci numbers are closely related to the golden ration. They form a sequence such that each number is the sum of the previous two i.e 1,1,2,3,5,8,13 ... I mention this because quilter Ricky Tims created quilts which were based on Fibonacci sequences. I bought the book because I love mathmatics and have at least one of these in my UFO pile somewhere.

This is a link to part of his gallery showing some of the quilts based on this.

https://www.rickytims.com/quiltgallery/harmonic-convergence-quilts

I love this sequence. There is so much you can do with it. So much in nature is based on it if you grid it - think snail shells, rose blooms, fiddleheads, ears, on and on. Just grid it out and go with it - there is no end to the colours you can use.
Thanks for the link.

>70 dudes22: my first sweater project was an Ann Budd design called Fibonacci Rings, where the striped pattern was based on the series.



P.S. the best part about this pattern is that it's super easy to knit; a great first sweater for a relatively new knitter.

I love the colors in that sweater, Laural. Didn't we talk about this when you were doing one of your sock projectsand trying to figure out how many rows of each color? Or something like it. And if that's a hint for me to go back to knitting, it's not working :)

>73 dudes22: You have a good memory, Betty. Ann Budd also has a fibonacci sock pattern and I was thinking about doing something like that with some socks. I ended up using a "random stripe generator" instead. I still like the fibonacci idea and might come back to it someday.

It would probably work better where you can work a bigger/longer? sequence. I remember you decided socks wouldn't work.

>70 dudes22: Interesting what Tims is up to. I did some pieces in his "convergence" style back when that was his thing; nothing very large, mind you. I just wanted to play with it.

I took a class in the early otts which combined art and science. We did a lot with symmetry, the Golden ratio, phyllotaxis ...etc. One of our projects was to do create something around one of several photos the prof posted. I took the photo of microbes and did it in beading on a little handmade purse.

>76 avaland: - Yes - I bought the book about them. I was intrigued that they were based on the Fibonacci numbers. And I think there are still one (or two) around that need finishing.

Craft in America is an excellent PBS program, but they only release a couple of episodes a year. New episodes just came out yesterday, and one is focused on Quilts: "celebrating contemporary masters of quilting and the role quilts play in America's history." I recorded it and hope to watch soon.

I've seen a couple of those shows, including one about quilting. I'll have to check and see if it's the same one or a new one.

Another question here: Some people in my knitting group use a software programme which converts a pattern to their individual measurements, or whatever measurements are required, and then calculates the amount of a given yarn required. I believe this is a subscription service.

Has anyone here used such a programme, and if so, how did it work for you? I have been impressed by the results I have seen, but have not used it myself.

If you like books (ha), supporting charity, and crafts: https://www.humblebundle.com/books/get-crafty-knitting-sewing-crafting-abrams-bo...

>80 SassyLassy: I have heard of that as well, although I forget what it's called. But I haven't tried it.

If you just want to estimate yarn requirements for different types of garments, Ann Budd has some useful materials. I have a leaflet called The Knitter's Handy Guide to Yarn Requirements, which provides estimates based on type of garment, garment size, and gauge. The Jimmy Beans website also has a yarn calculator.

Ann Budd's sweater books are also great resources.The Knitter's Handy Book of Top-Down Sweaters (which I used to make my first two sweaters), and The Knitter's Handy Book of Sweater Patterns, described as "created for knitters who want standard sweater patterns in a variety of sizes and gauges, as well as those who want a template from which to develop their own design ideas." I don't own the latter book, but in the KAL that I'll start next week, the instructor will use it as a guide to teach us how to design a garment to fit specific body measurements.

So I went to a quilt show yesterday here in Florida. This is the quilt that won "best in show" and a close-up of one section. As a non-appliquér, I'm so impressed.

Oh, I love the color mix in that quilt! Not sure I love the entire composition, but I like parts of it.

The card next to it said it was a pattern and the quilt was called "Mexican Pottery". (Don't know if that's the name of the pattern too.) Then it makes a little more sense I think.

https://twitter.com/amigurumist125/status/1223224779676639233

I am fascinated by the outcome, though cannot imagine making its innards. I would like to see if or how the tomalley was made.

I have not posted much here lately because I haven't really finished anything. :-)

Spending all this time at home has inspired me to do some organizing and tidying up, and I've decided I need to find a better storage solution for my still-modest yarn stash than a pile of tote bags and plastic carrier bags, none of which are easy to dig through. I'd love to hear how any of you cope with your stashes.

>87 rosalita: Hi Julia, I am lucky to have some closet space with drawers for my stash, which has done the job for me (so far LOL). Your post reminded me of a recent conversation in one of my Ravelry groups. Someone recommended clear vinyl bags with zippers, like these, and also recommended http://www.uline.com as a source for bags and box storage.

Hope this helps!

>88 lauralkeet: Thank you for the links! I'll check those out. I hadn't thought about clear vinyl bags ...

>87 rosalita: >88 lauralkeet: Clear vinyl bags need some ventilation, sort of like the bags grapes come in, otherwise you can get moisture buildup from wool, and bad things happen. There don't seem to be such problems with non organic yarn fibres.

I use clear rigid shoe storage boxes, with those pellet things that come in pill jars and shoe boxes designed to absorb moisture. The boxes stack easily and you can see at a glance what's inside. They also come in drawer like formations. For wool fabrics, usually in the form of yardage, which I use in rug hooking, I use larger clear blanket storage boxes, which usually have a dial on top for ventilation purposes.

Then there's fabric, and notions....

How do others store these?

I used to store fabric in plastic sweater or other larger boxes (sorted, of course by kind and color), but when I moved here I made use of the built in shelves in room probably meant as an office. I liked the windows on two sides facing the woods). However, 5 or so years have gone by and I have noticed that some fabric pieces have sunned on the fold from the light, mostly those on the middle few shelves. This is not a crisis because I tend to work with/collect smaller pieces of fabrics (under a yard, most about the size of a fat quarter)and I can work around the sunned stripe, BUT I have moved larger pieces to another wall.

Which reminds me that I should put that stack of plastics bins on the local freecycle.com.

>91 avaland: I have noticed that some fabric pieces have sunned on the fold from the light, mostly those on the middle few shelves

I love the look of fabrics and yarn on open shelves or cubbies when I go to people's studios, I love the idea of seeing colour at a glance and not having to go into a closet with bad light and drag everything out, but unfortunately I work far too slowly to turn things over before they fade.

On the flip side of this, I was in a café where the proprietor was wearing a beautifully knit Aran sweater, with an odd stripe across the midriff. I quickly realized it had been put away on a shelf and that was the result. I have the same effect on the sleeve of a cardigan.

If only we could arrange for the fading in places where it might be wanted!