Snood
Don’t blame
me. It’s all the fault of the committee who set the categories for the
Strathardle Games Home Industries Tent.
If you try
the word in Ravelry, you get pages of suggestions.
a) A few are what I would call a snood,
a mesh sac for the hair, Rita-Hayworth-style.
b) Many are what Dawn and Theresa would
call a snood (comments, yesterday). I think I would call that a “cowl” or a
“smoke ring”.
c) Many more are what I would describe
as circular scarves, with or without a moebius twist.
If you try
Googling “snood” you’ll soon discover that Marks & Spencer is offering
quantities this year of what they call “snood scarves” – essentially c) above.
The OED,
for what it’s worth, says we’re all wrong. According to them, a snood is: "A fillet, band, or ribbon, for confining
the hair; latterly, in Scotland (and the north of England), the distinctive
hair-band worn by young unmarried women." Gratifyingly for me, they go on to add: "More recently, a fashionable bag-like or closed woman's hairnet, usu. worn at the
back of the head", for which they cite Janey Ironside's "Fashion
Alphabet" of 1968. The word is Old English, "of obscure origin", for what that's worth.
If the
committee is prepared to lead us into such confusion, I feel perfectly free to
knit something from any one of those three categories, as takes my fancy. I
"queued" this
one in Ravelry yesterday.
Swing
Knitting
Judith,
thank you for the reference to Cotton and Cloud’s blog entry, a propos swing
knitting. (Comment yesterday) Kristie, you suggested a few days ago that I get
GoodReader for my iPad and then get the first installment of Swing Knitting to
read there. Forty pages is presumably nothing for the iPad. That’s a good idea,
and I mean to do it – and it had better be soon, before the idea slips away.
WIPs
The vest is
not a million miles away from the underarm, and even closer to the installation
of the next skein. I currently think that the colour change may prove to be passable-off as a "design feature", if the next skein matches the current one. Mindless knitting with
beautiful yarn is a pleasant way to pass the time.
It was windy outside the door this morning
but I persevered and got a picture of the Sky Scarf for you:
If I take
the whole kit along to Loch Fyne at Easter, the Little Boys can help me choose
each day’s yarn.
Non-knit
Yes, Mary Lou, (comment yesterday), I read
Donald Hall in the New Yorker. We take all New Yorkers to Strathardle and read
them there, so I only just got to it last week. Very good indeed.
iAnnotate is supposed to be much better than Goodreader
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ReplyDeleteThe games committee has certainly left a lot of lee way. I like the scarf/snood thingy on Ravelry that you have queued. That's a lovely cable.
ReplyDeleteYes! Rita Hayworth wore snoods and so did my mother and 2 aunts ...
ReplyDeleteMy grandfather wore Gaiters ... in the 19th century scarves were not permitted on the Troy to Fitchburg RR ... and so wives and mothers/daughters knitted circular scarves as you list in 'c' ...just plain ribbing.. your choice is lovely. Not sure why necks had gaiters the same as the lower leg and ankle .. maybe because they were circular????
Whatever, they gave warmth.
Elizabeth
In regards to the snood, if I was unsure of what they mean by snood I'd try to contact the games committee to clarify what they mean. My idea of a snood is item a. I wouldn't want you to lose because of a misunderstanding.
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ReplyDelete-Canuck J.