For Christmas in 2006 my mother gave me an I.O.U for "enough yarn to make a sweater." About six months after Christmas she and I found the time to sort through her raw fleeces in her basement studio and I picked out a light chocolate brown and I wanted naturally dyed green, yellow, and peach colors mixed in. The yellow was dyed with onion skins. The green was an over-dye of onion skins with indigo. The peach was a batch of madder root.
I designed the diamond cable pattern by thinking of designs I've seen in stained glass windows. I love stained glass and the cables here remind me of the mortar snaking around the glass pattern.
The sleeves change from solid light brown to the muli-colored darker brown at the elbows and cables follow along the top of the arm to the shoulder.
This has become my everyday sweater, perfect for wearing over a t-shirt with jeans. I finished the sweater while taking a jewelry making concentration at Penland School of Crafts in the spring of 2007.
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