Pinwheels

This photo caused a light bulb to go off in my head!

I am a Crafsy member.  Like so many craft-orientated sites it is free to join and once you do you get lots of Facebook and email updates about the types of things they think you might be interested in creating for yourself.  Because every so often there's an idea that I just have to make, like the photo above taken by Lizella, the added traffic to my social media doesn't bother me.  

It is obvious Lizaella is using up scraps of a light weight yarn (looking at her site it is more than likely sock weight yarn) and she's using a simple pinwheel pattern found on the Knit & Purl website.  The pattern is call Garter Stitch Pinwheel and is the polar opposite of lace knitting for me, meaning it is very simple.  Can you hear that, it is the gears grinding in my head.

There are walls to be covered in both of my abodes and scrap yarn to be used up in my stash.  In addition I have in my possession a three foot (1 meter) long wooden support that could be used to attach the finished project on a wall.  So I started knitting little pinwheels, first using up the gray yarn leftover from Upscale, then the pink yarn from the Pink Ashton, then the delicious extra yarn from the Western Desert Hood knit in 2013.  There is also a bunch of acrylic sock yarn in variegated red (used in the past to knit up strawberries) that will help tie the colour scheme together.

Each yarn has a story for me.  So when I look at the finished piece I can be reminded of the person, the enjoyment or challenges of each project and be entertained, at least in my own mind.  That type of wall art is much more satisfying than something I pick up.  Making my own ¨works of art¨* is meaningful to me.

This will be going to the condo and can be my travel project because the pinwheels are so small, making them easily portable, and the knitting itself is rather mindless.  Here's a glimpse at this idea, at the start.

The top photo focuses on the pinwheels, some of which are already sewn together and others not.  Sewing them together before all the wheels are done, from my POV, limits my options so I have stopped.  That need to see how it all looks has to be put on hold.

The bottom photo includes a smaller version of the wood support hanger that will be used to get the project on the wall. For now I intend to staple the work to the support, but that idea could change depending on its overall weight upon completion.  

Spring cleaning has been taken to a whole new level.  Extra stocks of yarn and wooden hangers are being cleared up and this project will be for me.  I expect to complete this thing sometime during the summer so don't expect to see it for a while.

*Perhaps it should be ¨work of knit.¨