I got on nicely with the Dunfallandy
triangle yesterday – not much, but no mistakes. Today I have an
appt with the practice nurse to have a blood test, related to my
daily dose of rat poison. I think I'll take my knitting along and
spend as much as an extra half hour there – it's a spacious, quiet
place; dr's offices often run slow; my husband will have good care
here. If I come home, I'll be in demand.
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Isabella, thanks for the tip on “In
the Footsteps of Sheep”. Here's
the link you provided to the Schoolhouse. I have ordered it from
I Knit London, as Meg herself suggests. I wonder what she (=Debbie
Zawinski, the author of the book) will have to say about the
interminable blackface we live among in Perthshire. I had understood
that their fleece was pretty well useless. I greatly look forward to
that, and to the bits about St Kilda and Shetland.
Maureen, HALFPINT is something like
Have A Lovely Future? Project I....No Time. Someone ought to be able
to do better than that.
But I think I'll move plotulopi back
down my own list. Scratchy, I don't like. Thank you for that, Cam.
Maybe one day.
Jane, I'm glad to hear that your
Dunfallandy blankie is progressing. That was a good move, to find
your place in one square by knitting the next one. I actually put a
mark | next to each row after I knit it. The current triangle is a
particularly good one, because it is my 10th time through
the pattern so I am adding a cross bar to the preceding four
uprights, which makes it very easy to see where I am.
My iPad seems to have relented and will
now send photos off by email again, even without being re-set as I
kept meaning to do. Here is a recent picture of Archie playing with
Perdita, to prove it. I will try to arrange the pieces of my
Dunfallandy today and see if I can get a picture for you.
Mary Lou, the Dunfallandy is certainly
not easy, but it's a lot of fun, and there is something rather
exciting about being in on the first appearance of the horizontal
cable. As for Mass, no, I haven't been getting there lately. The
privately-paid help comes for three hours at midday, which ought to
suffice, but the hours shift slightly from day to day and somehow it
hasn't worked. Next Sunday we're down for 10 until 1, which ought to
be perfect. Mass is at 11:30, and brisk.
Perdita says: e333./34aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa;ww
"Have A Lovely Fantasy Project; I've No Time." I believe this, along with "tink" and "frog," was the original invention of Amy Detjen, back in the Wild West days of the Knitlist listserv (1990s).
ReplyDeleteIn the Footsteps of Sheep sounds worth looking for. I watched a documentary called Addicted to Sheep over the weekend. Very sweet, but not one bit of spinning, weaving, or knitting in evidence. Maybe the sheep the family have (Swaledale?) are not good for wool, just meat.
ReplyDeleteI do use the tic marks, but somehow got off during the rows where you cut the yarn and slide back and reknit the right side. I could have counted and compared and figured it out, but it just seemed easier at the time to start the next one. I have seamed the four squares together and am not sure I am really happy with them. I will be interested to see how your squares fit together. I found the edges rather loose but that is probably more to do with my M1 than the pattern.
ReplyDeletePerdita is a fire ball! How cute!
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