Gator lake is one of the most beautiful spot in Meher Center, Myrtle Beach, S.C. and it does have alligators (the alive kind, bathing in the sun on the middle of the trail). I knitted 3 pictures:
Gator Lake in Aztec colors
18.5"X19" , 2009
This is the second one I made. I bought these yarns at walmart, just could not resist the colors, and they were sitting on my table, beckoning and calling me to do something with them...
The piece is knitted sideways in st.st. and I used a technique that sometimes is called 'scribble knitting': I used circular needles and knitted from the right or left side according to where I needed the colors to be (so that sometimes I would repeat a knit row twice, but twisting the st. to match the st.st. pattern). Sounds complicated, but it's not.
Gator Lake and Tree
18"X13.5" , 2009
This was the first of these three. My intention was to unravel the tree on the right once the knitting was done. For that purpose I made it thinner, as the unraveling would made it really wide, and I have been very careful not to carry any yarns across it. But I liked the tree as is and did not have the heart to undo it.
Gator Lake Modular
12"X13" , 2009
The third picture. Modular is not an accurate name for it, but close enough. The picture was knitted in 2 directions:
I started on the left, knitting sideways, until I finished the dark tree.
Then I knitted from down up, until I reached the feet of the next tree.
Then - back to knitting sideways, and so on alternating the two.
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