First Fair Isle and Swatch Bag

 

This sweater is a sideways fair isle sweater inspired

by Janida Barber's essay in the Spring 1992 Spin-Off.

Mine is all natural colors, mostly from my favorite

"australia connection" -- Barb at Shepherd's Hut!

sideways fairisle

This one piece sweater design works quite well in fairisle

because the stranding stabilizes the sideways knitting!

Here is the Swatch Bag I made from the HUGE array

of swatches I have made out of natural colored fleece--

please note my attempt at the spindle pattern from the

Spin-Off anniversary sweater. Of course, the uninitiated

often think that it is Xmas tree or a medical symbol!

swatch bag

 

And here they both are together--with the fairisle

swatch showing!

swatch bag and fairisle sweater

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