Good Friday – it has weighed heavily on me this year (as no doubt it should). I don’t remember being so troubled before. Grand weather, although a bit cold.
There’s still one scallop to do on the Shetland shawl.
I would hope to polish it off this evening. We’ll have a pic tomorrow. I’ll
explain blocking to Daniella tomorrow, and we can tackle the job on Monday. I
can see a day looming when I don’t have any knitting – that was careless. I’ll
have to resurrect Fergus’ sweater. That will be good for it and good for me.
I’ve thought a lot about a shawl for Lizzie and Dan’s
baby. Maybe a fancy-schmancy Amedro is not a good idea. My thots:
1)
My powers are diminishing. I might
not be able to achieve fancy-schmancy.
2)
I would really prefer to knit
something more useful, for carrying a small person about in an under-heated
house and serving as an aid to modesty while breast-feeding.
3)
I think Elizabeth Lovick’s “Easy Baby
Shawl” in her book “Shetland Lace Shawls” might do nicely – fancy enough to
show that I tried, not so fancy that it’s likely to bog me down.
4)
And Malabrigo sock yarn might do
nicely, too – pure wool, but machine washable. And a baby shawl wouldn’t have
to be washed terribly often.
I’ll think about this overnight, and maybe order yarn
tomorrow.
Daniella and I looked at all the books on that lower
shelf (see yesterday) this morning. No Amedro. And I should have two copies.
There are too many missing books around here – the Knitter’s Almanac should be
on an upper shelf in that same bookcase, but it’s not there. I had been
thinking about it, and contemplating the possibility of knitting the Pi Shawl –
I’ve never done it. And I can’t find my beloved copy
of Horace’s Odes, either – I’ve had it since my freshman year at Oberlin. It
should never be anywhere but on the chair beside my bed, but it’s not there.
Wordle: Something of a struggle, again. For line 3,
all I could think of was a Latin word. I didn’t expect Wordle to accept it, but
it did. And, like many a Jean-word before, it was very useful. So, four for me.
The early posters were all fours likewise – Rachel, Thomas, and Mark. But then
Alexander and Ketki spoiled things with threes. Roger was another three, his
son Theo another four.
Oh Jean - Keep your spirits flying high. Knit something EASY. Happy Easter. Anonymous Janet in Seattle
ReplyDeleteI can almost never 'do' Good Friday. Too awful to contemplate. This year's Lent course has been based on the Narnia books, and I only just managed to read the chapter on the death of Aslan, let alone the barbaric killing of the real live Jesus (or anyone else for that matter)
ReplyDeleteI love Knitting with yarns that change colour as you go. The end results always please me, and hide any little idiosyncrasies that crept in along the way.
Perhaps it's time for a major shelf organization. (Possibly even set up a place for all knitting books.) Go through every shelf and list all knitting books. Go through stored projects and list patterns that have been put with the yarn. Also list any books that should be there and aren't found. With Google and the computer you might even add photos of them, to show what to look for.
ReplyDeleteI recently misplaced a book I used daily, and nobody else ever comes in. I am baffled.
And we have begun the cold weekend predicted.
Something easy with Malabrigo can never be a bad decision! I ended up with a Latin word this morning, never dreaming it would be correct!
ReplyDeleteI misplace things, including books, all the time. Often they are under other things. The Horace one does seem puzzling, but most likely it will eventually turn up. I still have a child’s poetry book given to me by my mother when I was ten. Somewhere. Chloe
ReplyDeleteBy far the most successful baby gift I made--and I've made many, many--was the Bonfire baby blanket by tincanknits. The pattern was written for bulky yarn but I made it in worsted, adding enough stitches to make it the size I wanted. Easy to do because it has a cable panel running down the right side and is otherwise garter stitch (very little purling!). I use Malabrigo for almost all my baby gifts but in this case used the very similar Dream in Color Classy (also washable) because it came in just the shade I wanted. Both parents LOVE it and, more surprising, so does the baby, now one year old. Eileen in Chapel Hill
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