I am
thoroughly back in charge of Relax2, and back in love with madelinetosh. One of
my ambitions for the relatively near future, when the current queue of
must-knits is somewhat subdued, is to try Amy Herzog’s new website – not yet
operational, I don’t think – where you can order a custom-fitted pattern. And
execute it in madelinetosh DK.
Meanwhile,
as you see, I’ve finished the back of Relax2 – and I may tell you, with
pardonable pride, that I have the same number of stitches on each shoulder.
Currently I am knitting a long arid patch up the front, 50 rows, and then it
will be time to start shoulder-shaping again. The front neck is deeper than in
back, therefore less knitting.
Maybe I’ll
finish in time to wear it to Shetland, still more than a month away. If it fits. It looks huge, which is what is wanted for the Relax. The
planning for Shetland is becoming more intense.
Lizzie
I didn’t
mean to make it sound as if she is unhappy.She hasn't been there for a full week yet, but I
think she is enjoying herself: “Everyone here wears clothes covered in pictures
of the Jayhawk so today I bought my first university jumper which I will wear
with pride!....All the Americans are so friendly and offer you lifts
everywhere!”
She will go
to my sister in CT for Thanksgiving, I think, and will surely visit Theo and
Jenni in DC at some point, and I can’t believe NYC will get left out. I think Kansas
Chilli-growing
They are
thirsty plants as well as heat-loving. I nearly lost the two apaches on the
doorstep, so dry has this uncharacteristic summer been. They have been
snatched from the edge of the grave and brought in to the kitchen, where they
have warmth and water and misting in their north-facing window, but of course
less light.
The big
jalapeno and the Scotch bonnet are still in a south-facing window in an
unheated room. They are standing in a roasting tin. I left it nearly full of
water when we went to Strathardle, and various grandchildren who stayed here
overnight during all the recent to-ing and fro-ing topped them up, so they are
fine. The excitement is that I have a good crop of Scotch bonnets, although
none of them are reddening yet.
Sock-knitting
I mentioned
the new issue of Sockupied the other day (except that I wrongly referred to it
as Socktopus). I was attracted by a
Knitting Daily article on custom fitting. I’ve got several issues of
Sockupied on my iPad, but for this one I need to download a new App, and for
that I need OS 5 the installation of which has so far eluded both me and
Archie. I should try again.
Lizzie will certainly give her American friends a smile when she refers to her new team mascot sweater as a jumper! The exciting days as an undergrad........
ReplyDeleteI couldn't figure out ios5 either. I ended up taking my iPad to the Apple Store where a helpful young man did it for me. Now I have ios6.
ReplyDeleteYou are soooo close with the Relax! And it will be so comfy. I'm a bit behind, as we have been travelling, and my Ipad doesn't like me to comment. Glad to see that the birthday was such a triumph, in spite of the elegaic feeling it engendered. The Poem is wonderful, congratulations on producing such a creative family.
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I tend to forget how variable weather is. I was thinking that a recent cold snap temperature of 69-F was unprecedented for this area of Maryland, but a weather archive informed me that the record for today was set in 1957 when the high temperature was 53-F.
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