I’ve had a good day with the Spring Shawl, and have advanced
from Page Three to Page Four of the pattern. That’s exciting. The patterns in
the centre of the triangle are beginning to develop – not difficult; anyone can
manage k2tog, YO. But confusing, because now the action is on every row, and
the centre-triangle patterns don’t relate to the border mesh.
Sharon says that there was no point in charting the whole of
the triangle because it is obvious how it works, once you get started. I can
imagine having to chart it for myself.
I am puzzled – although I ought to be able to work it out –
as to how the increases work. On the Dathan hap – you can see it behind me in
yesteday’s picture – the increases stay where I put them. You can see the
attractive spine they make down the centre of the hap. On the Spring Shawl,
every row begins with an increase and somehow or other the new stitches are passed
from hand-to-hand and wind up in the centre while the wide mesh edges remain
the same size.
I’ve done a bit more Calcutta Cup scarf, too.
Comments
Thank you for your help with my literary puzzle. JennyS, I
made a start on your suggestion – searching for “A Mister Wilkinson, a clergyman”
in quotes. I didn’t find the two sources you mention, but I did find
references, at least, to an American book about literary criticism and to
something by Emerson, although I didn’t persevere to the point of finding the
actual quotation in those sources. Their existence, however, half-answers my
question as to how my mother got to hear of it.
I rather fancy the idea of all those bearded literary men
trying to invent the most boring possible line of blank verse, and then somehow
attributing it to Wordsworth.
Cats
No change. Perdita keeps entirely to her room. The door is
open. She is free to move about, and Paradox is free to come in, although both
Perdita and I try to discourage that. I don’t suppose counselling is available
for cats.