I’ve finished the border lace, for my baby shawl.
There are five more plain-vanilla rows to knit while I decrease down to the 85
stitches needed to knit back and forth for the centre. Amedro doesn’t
include what I think may be called a “break row” – k2tog, yo, all the way around.
I am of two minds as to whether I should put one in.
Today’s KD pattern for the West Highland Way group is a good’un. I think it would have
to be called a shrug. It has many of the advantages of that “Sontag Shawl” pattern
of Meg’s which I like in the Early Winter VK: warmth over the shoulders and
chest, solidly anchored, minimal sleeves. In the case of the KD pattern, a shawl pin will be
needed for the anchoring, but that’s not impossible. And it doesn’t involve
anything like that nightmare cast-on.
The yarn, perhaps surprisingly, is two strands of
Buachaille held together, not the new Milarrochy Tweed. The pattern starts out
with a cabled rectangle to which various bits are added, a back, short sleeves.
The cable pattern involves bobbles which are against my religion – but I am
sure a substitution can be found.
It won’t do for my EYF pattern, because I think I owe
it to KD to knit it in her yarn, and she’s not a vendor this year. Looking at
my Ravelry Favourites list, I can see a tendency in favour of Relax-type
plenty-of-ease fairly-light-weight sweaters. I think the thing to do is to choose one or two and go
to the market armed with the possibility of finding sport- or fingering-weight
for one of them.
People on the website are knitting EYF sweaters for themselves
as if it were Rhinebeck. I hesitated for a moment – but the great-grandchild is
more important.
Non-knit
Today’s Mindful Chef meal was less successful – too much
broccoli for my liking. (“I say it’s spinach and I say to hell with it.”) I don’t
really see how the recipe box idea would work in the US – it’s too big. GB is
almost too big. Part of the point is “sourcing” ingredients from named farms. I
would be very interested to hear how it works.
Too much broccoli, huh? When we were in New Zealand our hosts received a big dirty box of organic produce and I was very impressed, but then I thought about having to clean it and put it away, let alone eating it within a reasonable time! We do have such things here, but it may not be so pure.
ReplyDeleteYour shawl looks so pretty!
I do not know how knitters make entire sweaters for a fiber event. I am so slow.
I'm so with you on the subject of bobbles! :D
ReplyDeleteLove the new header photo!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI thought I was the only person old enough to remember the 'I say it's spinach...' cartoon! Hooray for the New Yorker!
ReplyDeleteI like the new photo! We are part of the same congregation regarding bobbles.
ReplyDeleteI am relieved that I am not the only one with a bobble aversion. Maybe a bead? or a pearl stitch?
ReplyDeleteThat Fair Isle vest is just begging to be made. What a great selection of wips!
ReplyDeleteSuch a lovely new header photo! I am smitten with that chair. I always find chairs and mirrors offered for sale on Etsy that I totally love, only to find they are currently in Great Britain and the shipping would be astronomical. Sigh.
ReplyDeleteI can avoid broccoli with a clear conscience, as it is contraindicated for me for health reasons.
ReplyDeleteCables do not need bobbles to fill in the spaces, so it may not be necessary to add a design, but merely to ignore the bobble and just knit those stitches plain. Still, I would advise swatching.
I get a box called Blue Apron in the US. It is sent out from at least five different warehouses, and the farms are probably local to the warehouses. We often get a warning like “your cauliflower may be white, green or purple.” In the comments, customers exclaim about what color they got, so I feel sure that many farms are used.
ReplyDeleteNupps perhaps, but bobbles NEVAH!!!
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