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Sunday, April 29, 2007
Shawl Come Back Now
Athough she has reassured me that the baby won't be christened for quite some time, I still feel a sense of urgency about the shawl. It seldom leaves my side these days, and I am pleased to find that a few stitches here and there does, in fact, add up.
This is it as of five minutes ago, looking crumpled and forlorn as unblocked lace will insist upon doing.
The center panel, which was knitted flat is complete. I've picked up stitches all around the edge and am now working the borders round and round and round and round. And round.
The first bit of border is just a simple band of stockinette with the flower motif Sharon Miller adapted (in Heirloom Knitting) from the traditional cat's paw pattern. I wanted something to buffer the transition from the center to the borders; this seems to have done the trick.
The borders proper - of which I've worked exactly one round - will be a mesh-and-diamonds motif. It should pick up the geometry of the center panel, but instead of diagonals made from decreases, it has diagonals made from yarn-overs.
Reader Richard from DC asked about picking up stitches from the center panel. I made it easy on myself, Richard. When casting on, I added an extra stitch to either side of the pattern, then slipped the first stitch of every row as I knit. Since the standard rule for making a square is to knit twice as many rows as cast-on stitches, when it was time to pick up those edges I had the perfect number of little loops on either side waiting for me. No guesswork, no fuss. Not a revolutionary idea–it's the way Mary Thomas (and many, many others) work the edges of the heel flap on a sock.
I've also eliminated a lot of fuss by restricting myself to patterns that have a plain row every other round. Now that I'm working circularly, it means every other row is just knitting, except at the corner points where I increase by 1 yarn-over on either side of a central stitch. This is the same increase method (out of Elizabeth Zimmermann) that I used in Glencora and it reasonably approximates the look of the grafting done in traditional Shetland Shawls. (By "reasonably approximates," I mean it looks sort of the same if you have no idea what you're looking at and you squint.)
So you see, it's not much of an accomplishment to work this piece on the subway. (You want to see really impressive stuff, go here and here.) The stitch patterns are small - the largest repeat being 12 stitches wide and sixteen high - and grow so logically that after four rounds I don't need the pattern for reference.
Of course, when it's finished and everyone's getting ready for the christeninig and I unfurl it and they all say "ooh" the Official Story will be that I had to sit naked in a mountain hermitage for six months and learn Tantric breathing just to work the provisional cast-on.
41 comments:
- Laiane said...
The shawl is just lovely, and will be even lovelier after blocking, I'm sure.
I have not yet attempted any lace work myself, so lace always impresses me.
Oh, and provisional cast-on's do require Tantric breathing and hermitages, I'm positive.
Best wishes to your sister. - 1:50 PM
- Mel said...
Lovely. But then we wouldn't expect any less from you.
- Anonymous said...
The Christening Shawl is beautiful.... btw I ordered a Dolores shirt from your store.... I LOVE IT! bjrest
- Janet said...
A lovely shawl. And thanks for the detailed description of how you are knitting it.
- Ted said...
I think it's going to be great! A fabulous family heirloom is in the making.
- ccr in MA said...
You say "crumpled and forlorn", I say "fabulous and impressive" ... tomato, tomahto, knitting is magic! Well done, already!
- Sister Sue said...
Woah. Hold the phone. Due any second? Are you trying to terrify me? I have a week of school left, a literary magazine to finish, a house to clean, and a suitcase to pack. And heck--I wanna go to prom which isn't til May 12 (I have a GREAT dress). Ok, so I know the baby is running on its own time frame and technically it could come any second--and if it does, to heck with all those chores--but around here fingers (and legs) are crossed that this baby is a bit closer to ON TIME than early!
The shawl, by the way, is GORGEOUS! I can't wait to see it, and I really can't wait to see you!! - 4:07 PM
- KellyD said...
Franklin, The shawl is amazing. And as the old wives say " a baby can come any time". Slow and steady gets the shawl completed.
- MonicaPDX said...
Oh my, that's gorgeous. And it doesn't look crumpled at all! Yes, yes, I know; it does to you. But it's much less like a pile of ramen, to steal from a certain Harlot, than most lace I've seen online. That's one lucky baby, and Uncle Franklin is just getting started...
(ROFL re the Tantric breathing, etc. What, no sitting on a bed of nails, in the snow, uphill both ways too?) - 5:41 PM
- La Cabeza Grande said...
There's nothing crumpled about that gawgeousness, Franklin! Even unblocked, your work is mighty impressive.
All the best to you and your growing family :o) - 5:45 PM
- knitnzu said...
A girl book! I got this today for my 12 yr old cousin (second cousin?, cousin once removed?). I want to read it! Did you see it in your book search? "A Northern Light" by Jennifer Donnelly. Your shawl is lovely!
- Michelene said...
Franklin, are you a closet Hee Haw fan?
Beautiful design and workmanship. - 7:13 PM
- Paul said...
Stunning. Absolutely stunning.
- Riin said...
It's beautiful.
And you know, babies come whenever they want to. - 8:14 PM
- Anonymous said...
What a blessed child. A christening shawl and a doting uncle who likes Thurber (whose Many Moons, the one with the Slobodkin illustrations, is on sale at Deadalus -- www.salebooks.com -- we just got one for a birthday gift). It's beautiful.
rosesmama - 8:44 PM
- Natalie Servant said...
The shawl is coming along great. Just got the Margaret Stove book this week (do you know how much money reading your blog is costing me?) and spent a few hours fiddling around with some ideas last night. Thanks for the tip on the book. I hope the new baby (T-10 weeks) will allow me to retain enough brain cells to continue to play with lace.
- Angie said...
That is a beautiful shawl. What a luck baby. Someday, shim will hold it and say, 'Look at how much my Uncle loves me!'
- Kristen said...
I have to say that the shawl already looks gorgeous--I can't even imagine how gorgeous it will be when it is blocked!!
- Angela said...
You are already a most excellent uncle to that very lucky baby! Gorgeous work, Franklin.
- Cherice said...
Beautifulshawl, lucky sister and lucky baby! And as the mother of four I can say that babies seem to have their own time table. 2 of mine came late, # 3 we coaxed out a week early and the last one was the most impatient, she appeared two weeks early!
- Cherice said...
That should read beautiful shawl, two words not one.
- Rabbitch said...
I'm afraid I have to disagree with everyone. It looks like a bucket of boiled ass (tm).
(please tell your readers I am joking and that they should not come kill me now because I'm too busy to die, okthanks). - 1:18 AM
- Barb B. said...
As far as the grafting on the corners goes...it seems that it was traditional from all my reading. However, my great-granny was from Shetland, and she knit the borders exactly as you are doing, using a whole whack of long dpns. She knit most things so there was no sewing up to do, off the needles, check for ends, wash, block and on the body. (none of her shawls have lived this long, but some of her sweaters have)
So there....tradition lives on!
Barb B. - 9:45 AM
- Deborah C. said...
The shawl is lovely, crumpled or no. I can't wait to see it blocked! I like the yarn over every other row construction, I've made several shawls that way and it works beautifully.
Lucky baby and lucky sister to have such a doting uncle/brother! - 9:55 AM
- v.j. kohout said...
I feel like shit, Franklin.
I have knitted for a long long time and have not done anything as beautiful as your shawl. Even in it's crumpled stage.
Boring little sweaters is all I knit for babies.
Best wishes to Susan. - 10:26 AM
- Yvonne said...
Ooooooh. Beautiful. I am inspired and next time I do a shawl will try my own design, too. Right now I'm working on the Tina shawl from Fiddlesticks. I'm on the outside border. . . . back & forth sixteen rows of pattern attached allllllll the way around, and so far have resisted the temptation to hurl it into the driveway & run over it repeatedly with the car. Maybe I'd better try some of that naked tantric breathing.
- Anna-Liza said...
Tantric breathing! Of course! Why didn't I think of that?
(Very beautiful work. I hope someday I will knit lace so beautiful). - 1:38 PM
- Linda said...
Dear Franklin, I thought I'd breeze in and out of your blog today, little realizing that I'd become caught up in the beauty of the work you do, to say nothing of the knowledge you so generously impart ABOUT the craft of knitting AND that your links would provide a tantalizing tutorial on lace shawl knitting. Result? I'm having an envious, Tantric tantrum!
- Paper said...
A propos de nothing, I was thinking o you this weekend as I made my first-ever visit to Chicago! I think the only stop I shared with Stephanie was The Bean, but it was a fun one, and I envied her the tour guide. (No knitting stores, I was there with my squib parents.)
And them my Mom mentioned that a cousin by marriage is a state rep in Maine, too--John Piotti, a dem. (Yes, this is among the most tenuous of "I have a friend who knows your friend" internet connections, but still.) And the weather was glorious! - 5:25 PM
- Anonymous said...
Congratulations on becoming an uncle and on the lovely shawl!
We wish Susan a safe delievery and a healthy little baby. I'm keeping both of you in my thoughts.
Keep up the great work! - 9:51 PM
- sahara said...
Franklin, that is a "true heirloom, that gives me a museum quality feeling; kinda what you'd see at the Merchant House Museum.
Thanks for the tip on tantric breathing. Provisional cast on's, make me stop breathing altogether. Additionally, your posts have been very helpful. Might you be channeling Mary T.'s spirit? - 11:55 PM
- Romi said...
Gorgeous shawl. And, btw, I doubt very much your sister agrees with you that those nine months went by quickly! ;)
- kalkette said...
Wow, the shall looks fabulous, even unblocked. I hope they really appreciate all your hard work.
I noticed it's sitting on a pile of books and that one is by James Thurber. He's one of my favorites. Out of curiosity, which book is that? - 12:47 PM
- JoVE said...
My experience of pregnancy is that the first 7 months or so do go by remarkably quickly but the last 2 weeks are so interminable that it all balances out in the end :-)
The shawl is lovely. And your description should encourage more people to just try knitting lace. - 2:13 PM
- Rachael said...
The shawl is, of course, lovely. Your readers expect nothing less than gorgeous from you...
I have a question, a few questions...I am coming to chicago in June for a wedding & I was wondering if you could tell me what yarn store(s) are most worth my time to check out. I am currently lace & sock obsessed, so anything with a good selection of either would make me quite happy. My LYSs here in NC are...lacking. Also - if you have any tips on 'things to do' in chicago that aren't obvious to the random tourist I would appreciate it. We are displaced from Philly at the moment for a job opportunity & are sorely missing city life & activities.
Thank you!
cattywampusblog AT gmail DOT com - 3:39 PM
- David said...
Hopefully the cave had comfy cushions and an espresso machine.
- Knitting Granny said...
The shawl is achingly beautiful! I mean it. Thanks for the tip about using selvage stitches to pick up stitches for the knitted-on border. I'm goin to use that for the shawl I'm going to start just as soon as the yarn arrives. How's Doris?
- Sandy said...
oh thats how you do provisonal cast on...
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2009 Best of the Best: Top Shops
Within recent history, 2008 had to be one of the most challenging years for print providers. Between the credit crunch and the faltering economy, things just seem to go from bad to worse with 2009 shaping up to be an even tougher year.
The Top Shops were not immune from these events and many have seen a distinct impact on their 2008 revenue figures—much like everyone else. But, all of them have remained optimistic about the future of the industry and their business despite the sluggish economy. While growth expectations for 2009 are not ambitious, most of the top shops have weathered similar storms and are well-prepared for the current situation.
While we see a number of the same shops on this list from previous years, no two businesses are alike. They come from all walks of life—digital color shops, reprographic shops, photo labs, service bureau, production facility—and from all over the US. Some have a single location, while others do business out of multiple locations over a wide geography. Some businesses are focused primarily on black-and-white or color images, while others do a little bit of everything.
The age of our companies averaged out a little under 25 years (24.92 years), with our oldest and youngest hailing from Texas. Thomas Reprographics, based in Richardson, TX, was established in 1956, marking its 53rd year in 2009. Dallas-based XL Digital Graphics was the newest, established in 2003. This year's list includes 78 total locations (down from last year's 91), with 21 more planned for 2009—one less than the numbers from 2008. While most shops had only a handful of locations—ranging from one to five—Thomas Reprographics boast 33.
The Top Shops offer a range of capabilities and services including analog and digital printing technologies, installation services, warehousing and distribution services, and creative/design services, among others—depending on exactly what their customers need. As an average, 49.40 percent of the top shops' output is wide-format (36-96 inches in width), followed by grand-format (96-inches plus) at 23.36 percent, medium-format (24-35 inches) with 16.44 percent, and the remaining 7.8 percent in small-format, 14-inches and smaller documents.
While banners and signs (19.88 percent) make up the largest application on average for the shops, retail and POP displays (13.44 percent), engineering drawings (11.38 percent), exhibit and trade-show graphics (10.62 percent) are bringing in good share of revenue for these companies. Fleet and vehicle wraps (8.93 percent), billboards (8.69 percent), backlit graphics (6.74), posters (6.48 percent), fabric and textile printing (3.82), specialty graphics (3.32), and fine art applications (2.76 percent) round out the rest of the applications. But what's next?
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1. | Thomas Reprographics Inc. | Richardson, TX | www.thomasrepro.com |
2. | Ferrari Color | Salt Lake City, UT | www.ferraricolor.com |
3. | Crush Creative | Burbank, CA | www.crushcreative.com |
4. | GSG | New York, NY | www.gsgnyc.com |
5. | Gigantic Color | Dallas, TX | www.giganticcolor.com |
6. | Source One Digital | North Shores, MI | www.sourceonedigital.com |
7. | Perkinson Reprographics Inc. | Phoenix, AZ | www.pri.us |
8. | Sharpe Images | Winston-Salem, NC | www.sharpeimages.com |
9. | Pictura Graphics | Minneapolis, MN | www.picturagraphics.com |
10. | Point Imaging | Hobart, IN | www.pointimaging.com |
11. | Image King Visual Solutions | New York, NY | www.imagekingvs.com |
12. | Inkjet International | Dallas, TX | www.inkjetintl.com |
13. | XL Digital Imaging LP | Dallas, TX | www.xldigital.com |
14. | Mathison Co. | Fargo, ND | www.mathisons.com |
15. | Bloomingdale Signs By Tomorrow | Bloomingdale, IL | www.bloomingdalesigns.com |
16. | Precision Color Digital Imaging | Las Vegas, NV | www.pcolordi.com |
17. | Vista Color Imaging Inc. | Cleveland, OH | www.vistacolorimaging.com |
18. | Big Ink Display Graphics | Eagan, MN | www.inkbig.com |
19. | MegaPrint Inc. | Plymouth, NH | www.megaprint.com |
20. | Dimensional Silk Screen | San Diego, CA | www.dimensionalsilkscreen.com |
21. | Fast Signs | Antioch, TN | www.fastsigns.com/210 |
22. | Academy Reprographics | Albuquerque, NM | www.acadrepro.com |
23. | Sealand Graphics | Bennington, VT | www.sealandgraphics.com |
24. | Solar Imaging | Gahanna, OH | www.solarimaging.com |
25. | Road Rage Designs | Spring Grove, IL | www.roadragedesigns.com |
Economically Speaking
Without a doubt, the economy is foremost on everyone's minds these days and nearly all of our top shops said it would be the biggest challenge for them going forward. But even though things look grim, many of our top shops have a positive outlook for the future and are planning on investing in their companies and their businesses this year.
Flatbed printers were on the minds of many—some as new installs, others for additional capacity. Dye-sublimation, fabric printing, vehicle graphics and custom interiors were also hot topics. Shop owners are also looking at specific products—online document management systems, MIS sytems, ecologically-sound printing options, Web-to-print and eCommerce applications—to help them grow and streamline their businesses.
"Everyone will be faced with the same challenge this year, which is to sustain growth during a difficult economic period," said Barry Polan, vice president, National Sales, Crush Creative. "We plan on using this period of time as an opportunity to further differentiate Crush Creative from the competition. We plan on doing this by adding new technology and making further investment into our infrastructure. We believe that this period in time is a growth opportunity for companies such as Crush that are strong financially and technologically."
"Our biggest challenge will to take the major investment we have put into our equipment, facility, and personal and to grow our print volume," said Randy A. Crow, president, Source One Digital. "We have the production flow and system in place to ramp up our goal of increasing our print capacity to all new level. We plan continue to grow our client base in all channels of direct, wholesale, and sports industry and define our production flow and process on a 24 hour, seven day a week schedule."
"The biggest challenge to our businesses will be to find innovative ways to maintain market share and profitability. We will look into services we previously didn't offer and equipment or personnel that can help us achieve it. We've been through recessions before and will again, but that causes us to learn to work smarter and once again gain control over our business. Those that realize this early on can make adjustments and survive during the rough times without reducing prices, and turn a profit on same or less sales," said Mike Tardy, president, Dimension Silk Screen.
"We need to remain committed to our business model and core competencies to fend off the pricing pressures from the competition and the potential commoditizing/cheapening of our products and services," said Paul Lillienthal, owner, Pictura. "Management will be challenged with the volatility of our business and the industry in the short-term, while maintaining a long-term perspective and executing our business plan. We need to maintain an opportunistic approach and focus on our distinct competitive advantages. Our commitment to "sustainability" will be more important than ever and be a vital component to the long-term growth and success of Pictura Graphics."
Reinvention Key for Some
Some of these shops are viewing this as an opportunity to expand their business, by offering new products and services, reinventing the way they do business. "It will be necessary for almost all companies to consider major changes in their business paradigms. If anyone denies this, they are either ensconced in a cottage industry that is not suffering the effects, or they are in denial," said Spencer Jacobson, executive vice president, ImageKing. "The biggest challenge will be how to deal with these major changes on a cultural, profit, and business continuance level. 'There will be blood'."
"We have made a concerted effort over the last year to evolve our company into a leaner, more responsive organization," said Kevin C. Vesely, president, Vista Color Imaging, Inc. "We've expanded our perspective on what kind of provider we are, and now pursue projects that were once considered outside our comfort zone."
Scott Perkinson, president, Perkinson Reprographics sees things in a similar fashion. "We need to be more creative with our sales and marketing process. We need to reach out beyond our normal borders and find clients and projects that our different than our norms. We need to work harder and smarter than we have in years. The refining process is and will be good for our business in the long run."
"Now more than ever we need to focus on taking waste out of our processes, both literally and figuratively," said Tom Trutna, owner, BIG INK Display Graphics. "We will continue to use 'lean' and 'green' as our mantra that will move us forward today and in the foreseeable future."
For some of these companies, they have found new ways to partner with both their customers and their vendors—to positive results.
"Our goal over the next 12 months is to collaborate with our customers to find solutions that are both creative and cost-effective," said Kim Dahl, vice president, Mathison's. "We are finding new ways to help our customers realize the greatest impact from how they spend their promotional and printing budgets, also ensuring that they never compromise their brand image or quality."
Zach Sharpe, president of Sharpe Images, agrees. "The current economy is requiring every business to evaluate what it is printing, how it is printing, and what the value it is receiving. We are working closely with our customers and prospects to show them how to manage their printing requirements through on-line digital storefronts, we are developing new cost effective solutions for their printing needs and finding lower cost production equipment that continues to produce a high quality."
But, according to Jittu Sarna, owner, Inkjet International, these times also can be seen as providing some of the biggest opportunities for businesses. "We have invested in improving our customer communication tools through a dynamic new website, the convenience of a web-store with customizable options, and aggressive outbound marketing. These steps and others are forming the platform for us to step out from being a printer that reacts to an order, versus a solutions printer that creates ideas, earns loyalty and generates new business," said Sarna. "All of this requires a synchronized effort and collaboration with our vendor partners—whom we are working more closely with than ever before."
"Working with our current vendors and searching for new vendors that can offer better pricing on our materials has opened up more opportunities to help our clients out during this time. In doing this we've been able to lock down bigger discounts, allowing us to pass these savings onto our clients resulting in lower prints costs," said Gina Spring, Solar Imaging. "With these savings, our clients have been able to continue their advertising and print projects and sometimes even do more than they have anticipated for the year. It's really a win-win situation for all of us."
Empowering Employees
Many of these shops have turned to their employees for both ideas and support. The right people in the shop are key to growing their businesses—even during down times.
"We face many challenges in the next several years. The one area that will present my biggest challenge is employee retention," said Kevin O'Hea, owner, Academy Reprographics. "My company's greatest asset is its employees. These are the people that I trust day in, day out, to keep my customers happy and content. I can have all of the latest equipment and gadgets and services, but without good people, I'm just another blueprinter. So when I lay awake at night and worry, it's not about revenue and cash flow, it's about losing good employees. If our revenue slows down, we will be forced to let some of them go. I trust my people, and more importantly, they trust me to keep them out of the unemployment lines. We have expanded our market into nontraditional services and included niche markets that have typically been ignored. The employees themselves have provided some of the best ideas and we have invested heavily in those areas."
"I think our biggest business challenge over the next twelve months will be the speed at which our business is growing, and being able to keep up with it," said Kris Harris, vice-president, Road Rage Designs. "We doubled out staff in 2008, and we can see that we are going to need to add more employees to keep up with the work for this year. This creates a new problem—finding qualified installers. We get people coming in every couple of days looking for a job, but rarely are the people who walk through our door qualified to work here."
"While the economy seems to be the 'hot topic in news' our team is embracing all the benefits and value our products bring to our clients and how our products can grow a client business during tough times," said Crow. "With our 'yes we can approach' we remain optimistic that "tough times never last …but tough people do'."


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Phoronix: A Mesa (OpenGL) Driver For The Nintendo Wii?
There is now talk on the Mesa 3D development list about the possibility of having a Mesa driver for the Nintendo Wii. Those working on developing custom games for this console platform have already experienced some success in bringing OpenGL to the Wii through the use of Mesa.Nintendo has its own graphics API (GX) for the Wii, which is resemblant of OpenGL but still different enough that some work is required to get OpenGL running...
I'm confused. How does Nintendo's API matter AT ALL here? It's just an ATi gpu. The console has been owned.
I was thinking the same thing.
The other point, I guess, is that we are only planning to provide programming information for PC graphics processors, not for the custom console GPUs. As a result, having the OpenGL driver run over the existing console API's makes a lot of sense.
If you look in the Mesa source tree you will see that Mesa has already been ported to run over a surprising munber of other APIs.
The GX API is rather hard-coded. I was comparing it to Glide for a number of reasons.
I only mentioned the possibility. While I think that it would be the Right Thing to just do a driver in src/mesa/drivers/gx or src/gallium/drivers/gx and src/gallium/winsys/gx, I have neither time nor inclination to write any GX code right now, so it's up to those guys, and to be honest I'm not really sure how far they'll go.
If this bears fruit, will things work on the Gamecube too?
It also uses the GX api, but I'm unsure if it has an older version. The GPU should be pretty close, just slower than in the Wii.


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