Ribbing and Stars

I guess yesterday's swatch and hints were pretty obscure -- that, and it's pretty hard to compete with both the arrival of a new Knitty online and a new Interweave Knits in the mailbox (at least, I got mine yesterday). So here's a bit of the start of the project -- along with a little paper star art courtesy of the Paper Source.

Sable Ribbing and Silver Stars

That esoteric bit of swatching is for Kaleidoscope from Jo Sharp's Knitting Bazaar pattern book. I wish I could find a picture to link to for vest. No doubt, since this book was published in 1999, and there's been several interations of yarn distributors and color palettes, there's probably not much interest on the part of internet vendors on making pictures of these garments available. Oh well. Hopefully it will be just that much more interesting to watch it come together.

And, as a quick review of the paper stars -- these are easy to make, but time consuming because there is a lot of precision scoring and folding that has to occur. And not likely to be small person friendly because of the amount of fine motor control required. With a little patience, I think it's not too difficult to get nice results, and I'll be making a few more as window accents for my party. However, right now, even I don't have the patience to make 40 of them!