My knitted feather from a year ago. As far as feathers-in-general go, it’s more rumpled (disheveled?) than most, but as far as knitted feathers go, it’s the only one I know of and nicely stretchy in a way that embroidery isn’t. Suitable for hose, or a tank with negative ease – it was meant to be stretched into shape – but the rumpled look grew on me after I blocked it, so I thought maybe it would work on a loose, gauzy tank top. And so I submitted it for publication, and it seemed like it was going to work, but when I wrote my last pattern, I realized that it is necessary for me to learn some basic things FIRST, exactly RIGHT NOW. Like programming php and how to be a librarian and how to design set-in sleeves. just kidding… er, not really. So I withdrew it from consideration, and now I need to settle back into this blog because it would be nice to fix some of the patterns I have already written and finish some of the things I have started… like this blog.
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April 4, 2010 at 10:39 pm
robin
I wish I had half your design talent. Really I should just change MPMK into a vehicle for publishing your patterns, and in an ideal world you would just dream them up and somebody else would write them.
April 6, 2010 at 8:28 am
butterforpaper
I cannot even say how much I LOVE this concept. If you need any feather test knitters, I happily volunteer!
April 8, 2010 at 8:48 pm
shhhhh
yay two comments means this blog is back to life.
Robin, I always read your comments when I feel like a big idiot. You may have forgotten how annoying I was to work with on MPMK, and I appreciate that too. 
Anna, I would never subject you to knitting a feather as annoying to knit as this one, actually. Part of the reason I withdrew it was that I thought people would tear their hair out if they would even try it…
April 10, 2010 at 1:06 pm
Anna
But isn’t couture all about suffering? The minute, painstaking embellishments? The starvation? Maybe it just needs to rest in your brain/on the dressform for a while…
April 25, 2010 at 10:59 pm
Karen
That is a really neat concept. I hope you finish it!