{"id":10737,"date":"2017-09-26T09:01:18","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T08:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=10737"},"modified":"2017-09-20T20:42:16","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T19:42:16","slug":"amarna-backpack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2017\/09\/26\/amarna-backpack\/","title":{"rendered":"Amarna Backpack"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Picture of Pectoral<\/p><\/div>\n

Those of you who follow me on Instagram<\/a> or Twitter <\/a>will have noticed that the embroidery you mostly see has been supplemented by the occasional piece of crochet over the past few months. I’ve found my crochet projects easier to travel with than embroidery, and it’s a different sort of puzzle to solve.<\/p>\n

I’ve done a few shawls or scarves, and a pair of socks, and while I try to work out whether crocheted lacy socks are really “me”, I thought I would try something else that isn’t flat. Issue fifty five of Simply Crochet<\/a> contained a backpack project designed by Ilaria Caliri. The colours didn’t really appeal to me, but the idea of the structure, and the tapestry crochet band across the middle, definitely did.<\/p>\n

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Yarn And Pattern<\/p><\/div>\n

I started playing around with ideas for colours and designs, and it took me really quite some time to settle on something simple and repetitive enough that it might actually work. The dreadful picture of a picture at the beginning of this post is one of the pictures I took when the EES<\/a> let me spend a day in their library, and I think that the fact it was so poor really helped me to cut out frills.<\/p>\n

The backpack will be navy blue, and the tapestry crochet band is a series of petal shapes in turquoise and lapis, with a background of gold, and bordered with carnelian (approximately!). I had a lovely half hour in SMD Knitting<\/a> while we found the right shades of acrylic aran-weight yarn, and now all I have to do (all!) is decide whether my petals will be broad end up or broad end down and then get to work…<\/p>\n

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