I promise that the Warren Johnson pattern and essay will be done very soon. In the meantime, I hope you'll take a gander at this little video we put together, detailing the hybrid colorwork technique I used to get the plaid effect on the jacket. I'm hopeful that the video will be a useful tool for people making the jacket itself, and I'm also curious about other uses y'all creative knitters might find for the technique!
David really deserves props on this one: he did all the filming, and ALL the editing, which, let me just say, was a lot. The end result is so much prettier and more polished (and, I think, clearer) than I would have been able to achieve on my own. He even dealt graciously with my bouts of crankiness during filming ("Will I have to do voice-over? I don't understand how this will work. Should I even be talking right now if we're just going to record over it?" etc.). David does such awesome work on the Family Trunk Project, and I feel like his contributions are often overshadowed by my glitzier ones. So everyone: three cheers for David! Hip hip huzzah!
.(A higher-quality video is coming in due course, once we iron out a few wrinkles). Enjoy! And be sure to keep watching after the copyright notice for a little taste of Mr. Bingley's attitude toward the fiber arts.
thank you; this was very interesting!
Emily,
I don't know anything about knitting but I still thought your video was interesting and extremely well-made. And mad props to David for such thoughtful and effective video editing.
Hope to see you guys again soon sometime.
Sander
(Dev's cousin)
Holy toledo that is AMAZING!
Not only the video production - I can't believe how clear and clean and smooth that video is - but the technique itself, much less how easy you made it look.
When I first gasped and fell on the floor seeing this finished jacket, I was convinced that I could never attempt anything as amazing as that. I know my limitations and I'll just leave such stuff to people such as you who are blessed with creativity of design and knitting gifts that boggle me.
But now that I've seen the video... honestly... I'm really tempted. Maybe you are a mortal after all?
So know that your projects, your knitting, your tutoring and everything you do continues to inspire at least one knitter...
This whole site and everything you do regularly blows me away.
Keep it up :)