My husband and sons are always telling me to use more color in my knitting, so this swatch had a happy reception. The embroidery took longer than the knitting did, because I cannot count! I actually had to pick out my embroidery 3 times. I love it when the computer does fiddly things for me. Then the program re-colors the sections for you. a question box will jump up asking which color you wish to replace it with. One feature of Stitchmastery that makes simplifying colorwork charts easier is that if you are, say turning all of your midtone brown into pale brown, you can highlight the midtone brown in the key, and delete it. The more references for embroidery the less I get lost. I was happy with how it turned out, so I’m not going to re-do it, but if I were, I’d knit in the white patches in the tail, body and edges of the face. Once I had knit the intarsia base, I duplicate stitched the details on it.Īctually the first chart I’d made had the details, and I simplified it to the intarsia chart above. I was gambling that the proportions would work from twist stitch to intarsia, since twist stitches pull in, and intarsia does not. One had an owl sitting in a pine tree, which was great because the green yarn that I had went with the brown yarn better than the blue yarn that I had. I did monkey with the colors a bit, it turns out there are color variations in Northern Saw Whets, so I looked at reference photos on Google Images until I found a pretty one with colors like yarns I had in leftovers or stash. I decided to do the intarsia owl next because I found a chart on my hard drive all ready to go, based on the twist stitch owl.
All these interviews have made me ready to make the next owl.
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