This week has been a trial, with weather, leaks, floods, odors, and other tests of my determination to open the store vs. my desire to pull the bedcovers over my head and sleep till May. I hope we don’t have endure any more, and things are looking up. I finally dug out my driveway and got to the grocery store and got the dogs to the groomer, so we’re all happy here. The teachers and I also found time to get together and scope out spring classes, so they will be sorted out and published in the next 2-3 weeks. Now if the weather cooperates and I get my taxes in order, life will be perfect bliss. Or at least tolerable.
Anyway, several fall fashion shows have happened in the last month or so. I do love looking at fashion, although you’d never know it to look at what I wear (black + sweater = I’m dressed). While I was browsing through style.com’s photos of Fall 2014 shows, I tried to think about what would be fun to knit this summer into fall. There are some trends I think I’d like to incorporate into my knitting and I tried to find examples:
One trend calls for messing around with hemlines. These photos show that anything and everything is happening at the bottom of our sweaters:
Elliptical hems still seem to be big:
Split hems – Love the complete asymmetry between the left side (very plain) and the right (all cable-y). Would love to see the back.
Gathered ? Not sure how to describe this or how it was accomplished. Short rows? Very interesting!
Reminds me of a rayon dress that I owned and loved in the eighties, which got very wet in one spot and shrunk into this kind of hemline.
Here are some ideas from Ravelry:
Josee Paquin’s Robin is a great example of an elliptical hemline, and her design incorporates stripes, also very trendy.
Veera Valimaki’s new design Laneway takes your knitting and the hemline in many different directions, and the stripes accentuate the directional lines.
Elizabeth Davis’s Chelsea Morning combines a dropped back hem with color-blocking. I love this design (pockets!) and it will be on my needles for sure sometime this year!
Kathy Zimmerman’s Duchess Asymmetrical Cardigan from several years ago was ahead of its time. The asymmetry is everywhere from hem to collar.
And Julie Weisenberger (Cocoknits) does many designs that are off-kilter or asymmetrical in some way, like Mishke below.
You have probably seen plenty of other examples. Any favorites?
Next time, I’m looking at layers….
