Wednesday, February 07, 2018

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.

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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.

11 comments:

  1. 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.
    Your shawl looks so pretty!
    I do not know how knitters make entire sweaters for a fiber event. I am so slow.

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  2. I'm so with you on the subject of bobbles! :D

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  3. Love the new header photo!!!!!

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  4. I thought I was the only person old enough to remember the 'I say it's spinach...' cartoon! Hooray for the New Yorker!

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  5. I like the new photo! We are part of the same congregation regarding bobbles.

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  6. I am relieved that I am not the only one with a bobble aversion. Maybe a bead? or a pearl stitch?

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  7. That Fair Isle vest is just begging to be made. What a great selection of wips!

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  8. skeindalous2:19 PM

    Such 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.

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  9. =Tamar4:13 PM

    I can avoid broccoli with a clear conscience, as it is contraindicated for me for health reasons.
    Cables 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.

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  10. 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.

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  11. Nupps perhaps, but bobbles NEVAH!!!

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