Is there anything more lovely than an English Sweater Boy? My Rupert Bear thinks not (nor will he dare speak the name of his love for Aloysius, pictured above). Rupert is helping me work on a new sweater vest (sized for slim gents, but ultimately for me) inspired by Brideshead Revisited and what I hope resembles a subversive, non-traditional argyle. Thanks go out to Kaffe Fassett for pattern repeat and, well, general inspiration.
It's been on the needles for a little while now, because I've complicated things for myself. Although I love the vest so far, and I like the way the 3D effect is coming across, if the repeat were more of a "tumbling blocks" pattern the illusion would be stronger. Now I'm thinking I might try and switch to this kind of patterning (right now-mid sweater) and am hoping for a sort of M.C. Escher sophistication....and now I think it will just look crazy. Lord Sebastian Flyte would not wear a crazy vest. I would though.
Soundtrack: "I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise", Rufus Wainwright
4 comments:
The vest is the new cardigan, me thinks.
You are a very talented little woman.
Hmm, hard to say what you should do...I'm thinking stay the course, you stand the risk of looking like Tetris if your blocks tumble...
If I wear a sweater will you want me more than Anthony Andrews? I draw the line at driving goggles.
Is this movie the reason you want to study at the RSN? You know Hapton Court Palace isn't really Brideshead. Jeremy Irons isn't sunbathing naked on the roof...
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