crazy ideas are illuminating
13 February 2007This is why I believe in stash yarn and in stocking up on Good Colors of Sugar ‘n Cream when it’s on sale for $1 a ball.
Behold!
Lively Striped Lampshade, from Suss Cousins Home Knits.
Yarn called for:
Suss Cotton worsted weight
Plied matte
118 yards per 2.5 ounces
$7.50 per skein
6 skeins
$45
Yarn subsituted with:
Sugar ‘n Cream
Plied matte
120 yards per 2.5 ounces
white, cornflower, warm brown
3 skeins
$3
All this, of course, sets aside the whole notion of wait, wait, a knitted lampshade?!?! I know.
I’m pretty sure once you knit socks, sweaters, hats, neckwarmers, bags, anything and everything seems sane to do. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
And my lamps are happy. Handknits in decoration is merely the next step in covering the world with knits and purls.
Wait, is it done?? Can we see a picture??
Can’t wait to see your lampshade! Do you buy your SnC locally, or online? I always have to go online to find nice solids, because locally, the stores stock bright/primary colors, or ombres.
Ah, so that’s what the fashion and decorating magazines mean by a “warm light”!
Go for it! It’s going to be so cool.
Hey, there’s a knitted lampshade Nicky Epstein designed that I’m making for my mother’s shepherdesses dressing table lamps. Some day I might even finish them.