Where to buy Newport
I was playing with linked stitches in crochet, and I really liked how solid the fabric was, with no slots between stitches. Linked crochet is worked with a regular crochet hook, but uses some of the same moves as Tunisian Crochet. My Technical Editor, Ruth Brasch was teasing me that this is how people start doing Tunisian work; the drape-y fabric with dramatic, heavy swish just pulls them in.
Most designs start with the stitches for me. And I really like to collaborate with other people.
Usually I have to ask leading questions, and do a lot of sketches to get them to collaborate with me. But the guys in my family picked up my linked crochet swatch in cotton (I was submitting for a magazine call) and said, “Make this into a men’s scarf in Malabrigo Rios! I want one!”
OK, their suggestion was phrased more like, “You know that volcano colored yarn you made the baby sweater in? That yarn.”
I did use the colorway Glitter, not Volcan, but they all approved of the scarf.
My designer friend Carol Herman told me that the boxy shapes in the linked stitches reminded her of some crab traps that her husband photographed in Newport on the West Coast. So, though these photos were taken in Gloucester, MA near a stack of lobster pots, that’s where the name came from.
