Designed: Cora
September 27, 2012 § 5 Comments
Because I was (and still am) pretty excited about ombré effects in knitting, I was particularly drawn to the unique way that Bohus knitting uses texture to help blend and incorporate color (in short: sometimes there are purls). But I didn’t want the colorplay to dominate the entire garment, so, for Cora I left it as a yoke detail.
This croqi reminds you of Selma Blair’s character in Legally Blonde, right? Severe black bob, an even severer expression– somewhere between petulant and pugnacious.
Anyway I opened up my copy of Poems of Color, which was a Christmas gift from my parents, and swatched around.
This is what I came up with.
photo © Caro Sheridan
Anyway, this is me. I’m wearing my most beautiful wool pants and a nice wool fedora (despite my fears) from Rag & Bone’s Fall 2011 collection (this is the one thing I bought when we went to San Francisco back in January– it was even more expensive than my emergency-room visit! (turns out, I had an ulcer!))
photo © Caro Sheridan
I’ll be the first to say that this design doesn’t even come close to approaching the level of intricacy and precise blur for which the original Bohus Stickning garments are so rightly famous. This is an approximation– a taste, I guess, of what’s possible.
Yikes! An ulcer??? Hope your change in situation is helping it heal. And this is my SECOND favorite of the Herriot collection. :)
How very beautiful. And I hope you are healing and taking care of yourself.
Cora is probably my absolute fave of the whole Herriot collection. Also, HOLY CRAP ULCER. I really hope you are on the mend!
It’s beautiful, and I really like the fit too!
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