Before things got busy, I was able to get a special Knit the Earth kit from Purl's Yarn Emporium in Asheville, North Carolina. My kit features sock-weight yarn instead of worsted-weight yarn. Thus, I should be able to knit an Earth that I can justify in my home. The normal size is a 22-inch yoga ball. I have nowhere to put that. For my smaller version, I need to keep track of my yarn usage. Hopefully, Rik Schell will be able to use my experience with yarn consumption to offer kits in this newer size.
I haven't gotten as far as I would like. But, I thought you might like to see the bottom of the world?
I started with Antarctica. The other pentagons are the eastern part of Australia as well as New Zealand and the South Pacific.
The project is mindful — definitely not television knitting — but also a lot of fun. I'm mostly working intarsia, although some areas do just as well with stranded colorwork. I'm joining by grafting or working Mondragon loops, which is part of why you see brightly-colored crochet cotton. The grafting is adding to the time and skill level, but it produces beautiful smooth joins. The project would definitely be faster and easier with sewn joins.
If you are in the Atlanta area, Rik will be the speaker at the Thursday 1 May 2025 Atlanta Knitting Guild meeting. He will talk about the various types of color knitting he does, including his clever double-knitting technique. He will be bringing kits, too!
As for me, I'll be teaching "Illusions in Shadows" for the Prince William Purlers at their Tuesday 6 May 2025 meeting.
For 2026, I should be on the schedule at John C. Campbell Folk School again,
teaching my week-long class in reversible knitting from 31 May through 6 June
2026. That's more than a whole year away, but we all know time goes
quickly.
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