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As you know, many’s the time I’ve tried to interpret a fabric quilt by knitting it.

So far, I’ve stuck to quilts involving more or less straight lines. Recently, Ravelry’s Eye Candy featured this stunning improvisation by Sharon O’Brien (SOB-rien. External Link. Opens in new window. on Ravelry), which stopped me in my tracks.

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(Copyright SOB-rien, used with permission.)

Sharon writes: “This knitted section is an attempt to see if I could knit something similar to the sewn quilt on page 96 of Sherri Lynn Wood’s book, The Improv Handbook for Modern Quilters. . . . The knitting was slow at first, due to writing down every little step that I took. Then, as I knit more of the stripes, I stopped writing, and just continued to improvise. Creating this became fun, when I stopped worrying about what I was doing, and just decided ‘to wing it.'”

For those who want to attempt it themselves, Sharon used worsted weight 4-ply wools, mostly Cascade 220.

In the same patchwork-themed Eye Candy, there is also this brilliant blanket. External Link. Opens in new window. by Mary Beal (Marusya. External Link. Opens in new window. on Ravelry).

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(Copyright Marusya. Used with permission.)

Mary used Frankie Brown’. External Link. Opens in new window.s pattern for the Elizabeth Zimmermann-inspired Ten Stitch Blanket. External Link. Opens in new window., but the crazy brilliant mixing of sock yarns is all Mary.

 

6 Comments

  • These are so beautiful!

  • My group of knitters make a blanket for charity each year using the Barn Raising Quilt pattern by Shelley Mackie & Larissa Brown. The group is spread out over the globe, so it can be hard to coordinate colors, but I think this “stained glass” version is our prettiest yet http://www.ravelry.com/projects/catnurse/barn-raising-quilt-2. External Link. Opens in new window.

    The one we’re working on now will be a sort of “watercolor quilt” using smaller blocks in all shades of blue. I hope it comes out in real life as pretty as I see it in my head.

  • Inspirational. I love it.

  • Mary’s sock yarn quilt is gorgeous.

    • Yes it is! Such an inspiration.

  • Twenty years ago, when I worked at Jo-Ann Fabrics, I was one of the few knitters in as sea of quilters. I loved the patterns but hated the process. (My grandmother tried to teach me to quilt when I was 7.) I kept looking at the patterns and thinking “If I was a smarter knitter, I could figure out how to do this”. Now, lo these many years later, my favorite knitting is a Log Cabin Afghan, the very same dreaded summer project with Granny. I wonder what she would think?

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