Hope you all had a great weekend! Mine went far too quickly and I would like it to be repeated again especially the part that our friends came over for a lovely tea.
Today I would like to talk about the theme behind the third (and the last) garment of C&C Spring 2010 designs. There are only three in this season because of the limited time I had and I wanted to make sure that every single pattern is well-thought and constructed. So all is good ;D
The concept for this garment is “deep sea”.
Blue fin tuna are over fished for sushi in Japan. Southern blue fin tuna is critically endangered and is on the IUCN red list.
♥ Deep sea is still a very unknown area but it covers the majority of the earth.
♥ What we know is that fish and other marine life grow slowly over many years because of low temperature and lack of sunlight.
♥ The open sea is like fish’ sanctuary because it is illegal to commercially fish here.
♥ … however, deep sea is increasingly targeted by commercial fisheries especially in the open seas for rare and endangered fish (e.g. blue fin tuna) and sharks’ fin (really good article by BBC Good Food blog here)
♥ This is also an unexploited area for oil and there is an increasing interest in oil mining in deep sea (I really do hope this will not happen… we must all make effort to recycle and use low petrol-based products as much as possible).
Increasing human interests whether good or bad on unknown deep sea... I wanted to combine a modern and classic look to reflect this in the knit design.
There is a shade called “oceanic” from Jamieson’s of Shetland Heather yarn (aran weight). It is one of the most beautiful colours I have ever seen and I knew I would be using this colour for my project.
You can quickly knit up this cable panels mainly because there are sections of non cable rows.
The ocean is vast, so I made the garment with striking all over cables. The choice of the cable was also tricky because you don’t want to have too many complicated cables for children’s knitwear which they soon grow out of. So I used a relatively simple cable motif pattern (with purl background and not too much cables – the max you would do is C4F or C4B so it won’t stress your fingers). With a little effort on the cable work, you could make an eye catching garment that you can pass down the generation.
Turn the vertical cable to side ways, the cable looks almost like rows of fish 
Imagine you are a fish, the vertical cable panel is like moving ocean. You have to travel through it. There are mountains higher than Everest. Some creatures lights up in the dark, others have shapes that you have never seen. It’s all magical.
I think I will be able to release the patterns from Wednesday onwards. It will be so exciting! Hope you all have a great week ahead ;D see you soon!
The first two and the last comments out of 13 didn’t count, so I have counted from the second comment as 1. This means the winner is…
So here are some cute videos I found with sleeping furries. Enjoy 
