Saturday, April 20, 2019


Not much tonight. Lent is over. This is the day, under the old dispensation, when Evelyn Waugh would walk happily about smoking his first cigar. Happy Easter, Happy Passover, happy pleasant weekend to all, as appropriate.

Mary Lou (and others interested), the note from Sharon Miller referred to yesterday is (I think) the footnote on page 36 of Heirloom Knitting, in which she says that “with these finer yarns [cobweb-weight and lace-weight] both these decreases [/ and \] could be simply and traditionally worked as ‘knit 2 together’, without affecting the finished appearance after dressing.”

So I am not at liberty to substitute SSK for 2tog, knitting as I am with jumper-weight. I’m nearly finished, and continue to like the look of things.

4 comments:

  1. I still may try it out! HAppy Easter Jean.

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  2. Happy Easter from a very warm Broken Hill.

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  3. So with Lent over, is it back to the Weston's vintage? Very warm here too in Essex. We were serving cream teas all afternoon at the NT property where we volunteer, and will be again tomorrow.

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  4. =Tamar5:48 AM

    Warm here, too. Tee-shirt weather, in fact. But it's still only April. I will not pack away anything yet.

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