Viking Magazine - September 2010 - 14

and didn't want to be tethered to a pattern.
Now, with Hansen's help measuring
and estimating gauge, he made up his
own using Norwegian motifs.
Where Hansen uses graph paper,
though, Schmidt prefers using a software
application to do his graphing. Another
turn toward technology comes from
Schmidt's recent involvement in knitting
as public art or " graffiti knitting " -pieces
knit around tree trunks or lightposts
and left for others to enjoy or amend
as they see fit. " I want to develop an
application for the iPhone, where your
artworks or your graffiti knits can be
posted there, and then have a digital
map, " he says, " so you could do a graffiti-knitting
tour. "
What Hansen is teaching him is less
high tech, but one cardigan body and
two in-progress sleeves later, he says her
guidance is refining his work: Keep your
gauge loose so the color changes don't
cause your work to bunch up. And that
hem? You can knit it in place instead of
sewing it. Hansen taught him to purl a
round where the hem would fold.
" It was nice to learn how to make the
garment do what you want it to do, "
says Schmidt.
From Hansen's improvisations, he
learned that even tradition isn't so
tradition-bound: " It's very refreshing, "
Schmidt says, " hearing from an 82-yearold
traditional knitter that she's doing it
the same way I'm doing it. "
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