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OK, a Crummy Scan

scan of stole before blockingWell, I realized that I did have one image on my PC. I figure you deserve something while waiting.

(Funny me, thinking that you guys are out there waiting for my pics as if you have nothing else to do. I’ve been home on my 3-day weekend but others have been out socializing or gardening and not sitting stuck to their computers. I wrote so much this weekend some folks may give up before reading it all!!!)

Before blocking it, I put the stole right on my scanner and took this image. Unfortunately, the scanner uses the .TIFF format and something with as many subtle gradations of color as this really would be better with a .JPG (the format a digital camera takes). I could go into a geeky explanation about why one is better than the other for different types of images, but this is not computer class, it is art-blog time.

That is just to explain why the picture has the most horrible depiction of color I could provide. The gorgeous, deep emerald green scanned as avocado although I have color-corrected a little. The top color looks like yellow but really it is lime green. And so on… The ColorJoy Grrl is less than joyful about these particular colors…

But it does show the stitch pattern and the way the colors worked across the stole. It is mostly garter stitch or garter with an extended stitch by wrapping the needle twice on four rows. The first and last two rows were done in two strands of mohair boucle yarn, then it went to one strand of my handspun and one strand mohair. The mohair doesn’t look quite as brash in contrast when you see it in person, in my opinion. I sharpened up the picture so you could see the stitches but that over-sharpened the cream yarn.

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