Friday, October 3, 2014

One more thing on texture



As I was taking notes for a new post, I looked at my mother's blanket on the couch beside me and
realized that two neighboring squares looked quite different. Somehow it doesn't come out so clearly in the picture, but in real life, they have different textures (which I only just noticed!). The blue square is made up of many small units with many relatively large holes, whereas the rust-colored square is more solid, and the holes make up a smaller part of the surface area. Because the yarn scraps she used were of different weight, they obviously resulted in different gauges. Instead of for example doubling the thin yarn so that it was more like the thick yarn, she repeated the pattern once or twice extra both in height and widht so that the size of the different squares were the same.

The effect is not very pronounced in this piece, and certainly wasn't meant to, but it made me think that this might also be a nice way to think up a scrap-blanket. It might give a very nice effect to specifically use yarns of different weight and accentuate the difference by crocheting squares of the exact same pattern, but with very different textures. In this picture, the pattern is repeated 6 times across, in 11 rows on the rust-colored square, whereas the blue has the pattern 7 times across, with 13 rows. This is quite a small difference, so it would be easy to make a more pronounced version.

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