framework TEN ARCHITECTURAL KNITS
by Norah Gaughan
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TABLE OF CONTENTS I NT R O 4 -5 P ER I M ET ER 6 -9 DO R M ER 1 0 -1 3 SPAT E 1 6 -1 9 CEL L A 22-25 A R ENA 26 -29 WA L KWAY 30 -33 B OWER 34 -37 ARRIS 38 -4 1 A NNEX 4 2-4 5 GA M B R EL 4 6 -4 9 DESI GNER B I O 50
“This collection combines my love of linen and my current obsession with geometry.” So begins Norah Gaughan’s introduction to Framework, her collection of knitwear designs built from rectangles, triangles, and circles. Says Norah, “These garments don’t have to fit in the usual sense and are flattering to most figures. The simple silhouettes release us from the tyranny of fit. I love how modern these sweaters feel to me, too, even though these shapes have been used for traditional clothing for centuries.” Norah’s imagination extends beyond her geometric shapes. Her interesting use of stitch patterns obscures to an extent the simplicity of her silhouettes. But it’s precisely the simplicity of shapes that allows for the stitch play—cables, eyelets, dropped stitches, combining yarns—all knitterly details that make each of these simple shapes lively and appealing.
Pam Allen
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Perimeter
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yarn: sparrow color: paprika
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Dormer
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yarn: kestrel color: anemone
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spate
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yarn: sparrow color: port
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cella
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yarns: kestrel & sparrow colors: anemone pink grapefruit
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arena
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yarn: sparrow color: port
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walkway
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yarn: sparrow color: penny
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bower
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yarn: kestrel color: sand
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arris
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yarn: sparrow color: paprika
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annex
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yarn: kestrel color: sand
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gambrel
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yarns: kestrel & sparrow colors: anemone paprika
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Norah Gaughan Raised by artists in the wilds of the Hudson Valley (her father was a well known science fiction illustrator in his day), Norah was immersed in both art and the needle arts from an early age and honed her skills participating in 4-H for much of her childhood. One of those annoying students who always sat in the front row and raised her hand too much, Norah went on to earn a degree in Biology and Art from Brown University. During the years that followed she concentrated on her greatest love, knitting. She worked first as a freelancer for yarn companies and knitting magazines, then as the design director at JCA and, more recently, at Berroco, where she headed up the design team and published sixteen eponymous booklets. Norah’s upbringing, schooling, and experience coalesce in her two hardcover volumes Knitting Nature and Norah Gaughan’s Knitted Cable Sourcebook. Having studied both art and science, Norah loves it when the two intersect, as they do in this volume, Framework, where geometry is an integral part of the designs.
Acknowledgements Many thanks to the following people for their help in putting this book together: Dawn Catanzaro and Jerusha Robinson for sizing and tech editing the patterns and for understanding how my brain works, Pam Allen for photography, layout, and general help, Leila Raabe for technical illustrations, Whitney Hayward for botanical illustrations, Manaan Alexander, Meghan Lynch, and Taylor Sikes (from Port City Models) for modeling, and, of course, Elke Probst, Patricia McMullen, Marie Harriman, Nancy Brown, and Martha Wissing, my knitters.
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