Provence Jazz Fair Isle Cardigan
This is the classic Fair Isle V-neck cardigan shape, from bottom to top and then down each sleeve, round and round all the way. The underarm gussets provide bust/chest room for movement, so that the body appears fitted even as it includes practical ease. Body and arms can be lengthened with additional repeats of the colorwork bands.
I was inspired by May in Provence: poppies and wildflowers, olive trees, and that BLUE blue sky. Fair Isles hit their hey-day in the 20s & 30s, as did jazz, and Impressionist art was transforming into expressionism, surrealism, cubism--every which direction! So here's a musical composition of 3 repeating verses interspersed with the chorus...Then, while knitting during the heatwave, the cicadas were creating their own jazz, which reminded me of a recording of Duke Ellington playing on the Côte d'Azur in 1966 < https://youtu.be/QmuTeEDtynE >...So I took my visiting daughter to one of those places: Fondation Maeght in Saint-Paul-de-Vence...I suppose that Marc Chagall's "La Vie" impressed me on an earlier visit, and was quietly waiting for my return by way of wool & needles, because I did didn't expect to recognize the connection!
This is the classic Fair Isle V-neck cardigan shape, from bottom to top and then down each sleeve, round and round all the way. The underarm gussets provide bust/chest room for movement, so that the body appears fitted even as it includes practical ease. Body and arms can be lengthened with additional repeats of the colorwork bands.
I was inspired by May in Provence: poppies and wildflowers, olive trees, and that BLUE blue sky. Fair Isles hit their hey-day in the 20s & 30s, as did jazz, and Impressionist art was transforming into expressionism, surrealism, cubism--every which direction! So here's a musical composition of 3 repeating verses interspersed with the chorus...Then, while knitting during the heatwave, the cicadas were creating their own jazz, which reminded me of a recording of Duke Ellington playing on the Côte d'Azur in 1966 < https://youtu.be/QmuTeEDtynE >...So I took my visiting daughter to one of those places: Fondation Maeght in Saint-Paul-de-Vence...I suppose that Marc Chagall's "La Vie" impressed me on an earlier visit, and was quietly waiting for my return by way of wool & needles, because I did didn't expect to recognize the connection!
This is the classic Fair Isle V-neck cardigan shape, from bottom to top and then down each sleeve, round and round all the way. The underarm gussets provide bust/chest room for movement, so that the body appears fitted even as it includes practical ease. Body and arms can be lengthened with additional repeats of the colorwork bands.
I was inspired by May in Provence: poppies and wildflowers, olive trees, and that BLUE blue sky. Fair Isles hit their hey-day in the 20s & 30s, as did jazz, and Impressionist art was transforming into expressionism, surrealism, cubism--every which direction! So here's a musical composition of 3 repeating verses interspersed with the chorus...Then, while knitting during the heatwave, the cicadas were creating their own jazz, which reminded me of a recording of Duke Ellington playing on the Côte d'Azur in 1966 < https://youtu.be/QmuTeEDtynE >...So I took my visiting daughter to one of those places: Fondation Maeght in Saint-Paul-de-Vence...I suppose that Marc Chagall's "La Vie" impressed me on an earlier visit, and was quietly waiting for my return by way of wool & needles, because I did didn't expect to recognize the connection!