Not much to
report.
I’ve wound
the first skein of madelinetosh sock for the tee-shirt. Two breaks: one a
gently-tied knot, which I undid; the other a rather alarming frayed end which
came apart in my hands. They couldn’t have m*ths at Loop ?
The skein had only been here a few days, and couldn’t therefore have suffered
from our in-house ravenous hoard.
I’ll start
winding a second skein today. Meanwhile, I’m nearly half-way round the
Fleegle-Strong heel on those socks. I’ll finish that off before I do anything
else, so that the sock will be in a state for emergency-mindless if need be.
Here’s the
Gardening Sweater being blocked:
Miscellaneous
Zite
steered me this morning to a Japanese on-line knitting magazine, Amirisu. I’m not sure I have entirely
figured out how to navigate it. It is written in both Japanese and English, and
features, as we say, both Japanese and Anglo-American designers. You can buy
individual patterns as with the Twist Collective. One to note in EverNote? I
think maybe I have succeeded in clipping and saving it there.
The first
Vogue Knitting Book of them all, Autumn 1932, is on
offer on eBay. I have only seen it there once before, in the years I have
been pursuing this subject – and that’s the copy I’ve got. This one lacks its
cover, a serious defect not shared by mine. I’ll be interested to see what it
fetches. I had to pay a lot.
(Mine was bought
from a charity, I’ve now forgotten which; some consolation for the price I
paid. I presume somebody brought it in to a shop, and somebody there was bright
enough to see that eBay was the way to go.)
Non-knit:
worse, it’s rugby
Knitlass, I have never been
able to work up much enthusiasm for Italy France Italy Edinburgh
If I watch
any rugby this coming weekend, it probably won’t be Scotland-Italy, it’ll be Ireland-England
in Dublin
Jean,
ReplyDeleteyou just brought back a happy memory. I went to Murrayfield a few times on a "schoolboy" ticket, years ago. One time something had gone wrong with the tickets and people were being turned away at the gates. The Welsh supporters, who had travelled up for the game, took it good naturedly as I remember and went off to find a pub or hotel showing it on a wide screen.
I got in at the last moment, stewards were even standing on the stairs preventing more people coming up and we skipped up the grass banks. No memory of the actual game but the Welsh supporters singing gave me goosebumps. Lovely.
Also - Tom Lehrer, I was introduced by my husband whose father was American, we still have his LPs! My favourite is the elements song, husband, a physics grad, can sing it off by heart still and I am still impressed.
Dawn in NL
Beautiful sweater.
ReplyDeleteRon in Mexico
Me too...I,m also in love with Brian O Driscoll!!!
ReplyDeleteYou have good taste ma'am - BOD is a fine fellow, and the Ireland-England match should be a cracker. I like to watch most of the matches (or at least highlights) if I can, on account of my British heritage, by which I mean I was born in England, live in Scotland and have a Welsh mother and Irish grandfather... Scotland-Italy isn't always much to write about, but this year it could be a good one - given the matches last weekend. I'll get my knitting ready....
ReplyDeleteSomehow I came upon this pattern in Ravelry, while I was searching for something like what you had described. I like the looks of it, but would probably alter it some: back neck extension, bust darts, and I would extend the dolman portion rather than picking up stitches at the elbow. I think it breaks up the line. It a pattern from Amirisu by Ririko called Relax http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/relax-5 .
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Lehrer song was the one which ended: 'the South Africans hate the Dutch; I don't like anybody very much." Unfortunately the world hasn't change much in that regard, just the foci of hatreds. Thank heavens for humor in the face of darkness.