Ribbon stitch, or ruching

Knitted Textile

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BLUE: The TATTER Textile Library

Name/Title

Ribbon stitch, or ruching

Entry/Object ID

2020.1.235

Description

From the book: "The 'ribbon' may be worked in a contrasting color. For best results, work Rows 7 through 13 inclusive in the contrasting color, breaking off the strands to change colors. This pattern is prettiest when worked in fine yarn on small needles.

Collection

Barbara Walker Swatch Project

Category

Chapter 7 : Fancy Texture Patterns

Acquisition

Accession

2020.1

Made/Created

Artist

Cheryl Umberger

Date made

Jul 25, 2018

Place

City

Tampa

State/Province

Florida

Country

United States of America

Continent

North America

Notes

As a longtime Barbara Walker fan, Cheryl enjoyed working on swatches for this project. At the time of knitting them, she was pondering a major life decision -- feeling somewhat adrift, knitting was once again the anchor to her calm, peace, and knowledge that no matter what may come, there is always solace and hope in the simple joy of creativity with yarn in hand.

Lexicon

Getty AAT

Concept

knitters, knitting (needlework), knitting (process)

Parts

Count

2

Parts

Swatch, handwritten letter.

Materials

Material Notes

Swatch knit using Isager Strike Alpaca Merino in color 47.

Color

Blue

Location

Box

Barbara Walker Swatch Collection

Room

Library