This week I finished the Steps scarf/shawl that I made for
my sister Irene.
In the beginning of this year, I heard that my Steps pattern was accepted for the Spring/Summer 2013 issue of Knitty, and of course I was
thrilled. However, I was asked if I could send them some additional photo’s of
the Steps modeled on a real person. That was a bit of a problem for two
reasons. First of all, I was ill at that time and I could not do any modeling
myself. Also it was in the middle of Winter and it was very cold outside, so
making Spring/Summer-like pictures wasn’t easy either. Luckily my family was
able to help me out. My two daughters agreed to do the modeling for the
photo’s. And to solve the ‘wrong-season’-issue, I decided to take the photo’s
inside, against a background provided by a large painting that my multi-talented sister Irene made for me a couple of years ago.
So when Irene hinted that she would love to have a Steps
too, I was of course happy to make one for her. Again I used yarn by Loret Karman, but this time I chose a different Dutch Palette (based on Breitner’s
painting ‘The Girl in the Red Kimono’) that contained colours that I thought
would look great on my sister. I also made her a set of fingerless mitts, out
of some of the left-over yarn.
These fingerless mitts are easy to make and they are fun to
wear. I’ll make sure to write the pattern down maybe later this week.
In the meantime I’ve already started another Steps for
myself, using 15 different types of left-over sock yarn for the Steps. I’ll
post photo’s some other time, but again I love how this one is turning out :-)
