Miscellaneous
-- I forgot to
wish us all a Happy Year of the Dragon on Monday. Happy Burns Night, at least.
-- Dawn found
the link to the New Yorker piece about President
Romney at the G8. Tamara and Sally (comments yesterday), I have read the
New Yorker for most of my life and now give subscriptions to my four children
as well. Thomas-the-Elder reads it on his iPad, somehow floating on his
mother’s subscription. I could do that, but prefer paper.
Alexander
made me an alphabet book for my 70th birthday, now well in the past.
N was for “New Yorker”. He reproduced the two covers nearest the date of my
birth in 193x and 200x – they were remarkably similar in palette and tone.
I’ll have
to have a look at the jigsaw puzzles, Sally. That’s a time-waster I
particularly enjoy.
-- The
Historic Knitting Group produced a link yesterday to the Richard Rutt
collection at Southampton
University
-- The branch
of Waitrose I patronise doesn’t have any craft magazines, so my search for Knit
Now continues.
Knitting
You may
deduce from this preamble that I have little to say today. I have turned the
heel of the 1st outré sock. Gretchen, it’s the “Moor” colorway from
the new “Random Stripes” set. There are six. “Anthracite” and “Moor” are the
darkish ones – the rest are more spectacular. I’m having such fun that I want
more. If one were to venture on knitting a necktie -- not me, thanks -- "Moor" would be a rather good choice.
This is the first time I have heard of a Korean knitting tradition. I had no idea. Have you downloaded any of the books in the collection?
ReplyDeleteJean, the English-speaking retailers I can find online who list Regia's Kaffe Fassett "Random Stripes" sock yarn don't include the poetical names for the colors, just the numbers. But I found a Finnish (?) site that gave the correlation. So here's a cheat-sheet:
ReplyDelete2900: "Snappy"
2901: "Sizzle"
2902: "Heather"
2903: "Anthracite"
2904: "Delphinium"
2905: "Moor"
This information is probably available on Ravelry, but for instant-gratification folks like me who want to see the colors NOW, this could help.
I vote for renaming "Moor" "Outre." (I wish I could generate an acute accent in "Outre" in this comment, but you will just have to take it on faith that it is in my mind as I type.)
P.S. I learned on the radio this morning that it's not only Burns' birthday today, but also Virginia Woolf's and Somerset Maugham's. Who knew?! (Garrison Keillor knew, that's who.)
ReplyDeleteI forgot to wish you a Happy Burns Night! Enjoy your haggis (if such a thing is possible!).
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for posting about the Richard Rutt collection. It's fascinating. I doubt I would come upon it on my own.
ReplyDeleteJeanne in Rochester