Description:

From Knitty, Winter 2005:

1. forecast
Pronunciation: -"kast; fOr-'kast, for-'
Function: verb transitive sense:
a: to calculate or predict some future event or condition usually as a result of study and analysis of available pertinent data; b: to indicate as likely to occur [such events may forecast peace] intransitive senses; c: to calculate the future

I spend a lot of time thinking about the future. What will happen to me? Will I be happier tomorrow than I am today? More succesful? Will I have children? Be a grandmother? This design was created at a time of personal transition for me: finishing a two-year stay in Europe, and beginning a new job in New Mexico, which seems to be the polar opposite of the place I am leaving. I am saying goodbye to dear friends, and hoping to meet new ones, equally dear, wondering what the future holds, and sitting in awe of Fate and its constant surprises...wishing for the ability to forecast my own destiny.

Forecast is a whimsical combination of textures. Braided cables accented with tiny eddies of bobbles travel down each panel over a corrugated garter-stitch background, like swiftly moving streams over ploughed fields. The yarn is my favorite Cascade 220 tweed, in a beautiful bright-dark blue-purple with flecks of red and yellow that reminds me of sunrise. Slightly belled sleeves are cinc hed at the wrist by bordered ribbing, and the same ribbing used at the waist to provide a slimming, shapely silhouette. This design is an example of how to achieve complex-looking shaping using only textural changes.

Make sure to check out Winnie’s Forecast modifications at Knitting Escapism!