A little diversion

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Too bad I suck at real yo-yos

Brooches and pins are so great; just slap them on anything plain and instant pow. Following Heather Bailey's excellent little yo-yo tutorial over here, I whipped up one of these with some scrap fabric. Again, it was really all just a pretense to use a favorite vintage button. I winged a loopy ric-rac thing and viola, a new accoutrement.

With the new IK out there's been some talk of the samples being a bit on the monochromatic side. Now one of the things I love about knitting is you can choose nearly Any color there is for your piece but I understand some may find it hard to visualize. So for the heck of it, I did a little playing around in Photoshop with the photo for my design Mirabella.

Mirabella in Technicolor
I think I'm leaning towards a red one, yum.

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The red is gorgeous!

I love this pattern! Unfortunately, I just tried to get the issue online and they are out of the Spring 2008 issue...

Now I will actually have to leave the house to find a copy. :-)

The red, all the way.
Also, that is an awesome idea. I have nearly no Photoshop-fu, but I might have to learn just for that.

it's amazing how such a simple thing as changing the color can get you to look at clothes in different ways. i love all three of your color choices--i'm aiming towards the yellow myself.

The red Mirabella is gorgeous. And I love that little pin!

Hello. It is aubyn and I wanted to say how proud and impressed by you I am. You are doing such beautiful work. I hope you will allow me to say I knew you when.

I agree that the red is fabulous! Or perhaps one in a springy acidy green! Heck how about a whole rainbow!

Hi Jen,

I tagged you:

http://hollywest.typepad.com/blog/2008/02/happy-leap-day.html

I know you are busy but since you are at least partially responsible for my knitting obsession, I thought it was appropriate. :-)

Holly

Your Juliet is great and the upcoming gorgeous, i like red!!! excuse my english!!

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