Corner View- Artist?

Today's Corner View theme is "Artist?" I don't know that anyone would truly consider me an artist...but over my life I have pursued many artistic endeavors. In the past (and sometimes now) I have sketched, painted, done woodworking, but the thing that I really love putting my energy into these days is the fiber arts. I love to dye, spin, knit, crochet and felt anything that will lend itself to any or all of the above activities.

While I don't consider myself a photographer by ANY stretch of the imagination, I do like taking pictures, and try and make them as "artistic" as possible.

I have enjoyed exercising my "artistic" muscle this year by designing my shawl a month series, "12 Shawls in 2012", and I also have flexed that muscle when styling and shooting the pictures for the series. It has been a lot of fun!

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Teaser pictures-November's Little Sister Shawl

As promised, November's shawl pattern will use most of the Malabrigo Lace that you have left from October's Big Sister Shawl. I actually still have enough of the rusty color that I could probably make a scarf, too. I had some trouble with this shawl near the end...the edging was eluding me. What I wound up with is a hybrid of part of an antique pattern in which the last two rows just were not working, then I tried doing a ruffle, which was even less satisfying. In the end, I am finally satisfied with the outcome, and like it more and more the longer I look at it. These are the best of the pics I shot today before my camera finally died. I managed to make it work long enough at home to coax the pictures out of it. My son, who is taking up photography, took a lot more pics, but alas, he is using a film camera, so those pics will not be available until next week. In the meantime, I thought I would let you have a peek of the finished result.

No buy button yet...the pattern should be back from tech editing next week, before the first. Check back then!

12 Shawls in 2012: October- "Big Sister Shawl"

 

Introducing October's shawl in my "12 Shawls in 2012" series, "Big Sister Shawl"

 I call it the "Big Sister Shawl" because it has a little sister, which will be unveiled next month as the November shawl, "Little Sister Shawl". Why are they sister shawls? Because they are made from the same 3 skeins of Malabrigo (or as I like to say, "Mmmmmmmmmmmmmalabrigo") Lace, meaning that they are sister shawls. Since you get two shawls from buying the yarn for this one, it's like a two-fer!

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