tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-703986833050265474.post3066468799381787382..comments2024-03-22T07:18:18.281+10:30Comments on Lupey Loops: Cardigan SwatchesJodiebodiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11377052537742885631noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-703986833050265474.post-89529786699521787562014-08-01T11:55:43.460+09:302014-08-01T11:55:43.460+09:30Thanks Tracey. It looks very much like an electric...Thanks Tracey. It looks very much like an electric blue, but it is actually a rich purple! I had difficulty in getting the photos to display the colour accurately. Perhaps photos of the later stages of the project will work better. <br /><br />That's interesting that you have not heard the word 'swatch' in a while. I was wondering which terms were in use in different places. In Australia it was always a tension square but we get a lot of American publications here nowadays and the American language is pervasive on the internet (naturally, since the Americans invented it) so, with that in mind, I have used both terms interchangeably. I heard a linguist the other day mention that the current trend to turn nouns into verbs (e.g. a 'swatch' becomes 'to swatch') is being led by the USA.<br /><br />The American pattern uses the term 'gauge' while I have always measured my 'tension' therefore I make sense of notes by calling the pattern measurement as 'gauge' and my own measurements as 'tension'. <br /><br />I wonder whether there are other terms in use elsewhere and what they are.Jodiebodiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11377052537742885631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-703986833050265474.post-1785857871451031932014-08-01T05:11:27.425+09:302014-08-01T05:11:27.425+09:30Ooh, nice pattern and I love that blue. I've n...Ooh, nice pattern and I love that blue. I've not heard the word swatch in a while :-) but yes, always swatch!<br />Tracey xxxyarn and pencilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06803049859638754040noreply@blogger.com