Mostly Knitting – Sometimes Theology
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Elektra
Having been especially virtuous and finished two long-standing wips (yes, the Paintbox Socks are complete – see right) in February, I had the luxury of casting on for absolutely anything I wanted. I’ve been considering shawls for a while, and bought the 7 Small Shawls e-book last month, so I decided to pick from my…
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Little Women Knitting
As promised, here are the knitting quotes from Little Women. They are taken from the Kindle edition, which also contains Good Wives in the same volume. The first one, from the very beginning: page 4 It’s bad enough to be a girl, anyway, when I like boy’s games and work and manners! I can’t get…
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Finished Object
The cardigan is finished! Shoddy photo, but I forgot to take it while there was still daylight. I must find some tips for taking better photos of knitting. Those blocking boards don’t help with the colour, although they do help to keep the carpet clear of blue dye. The Cascade 220 bleeds colour quite spectacularly.…
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Second Sleeve
It turns out that sleeves are very straightforward. I’m on to the second sleeve and just needing to find the time to chug on through 110-ish rows. Really starting to look forward to wearing it now. In other news, we managed to visit a yarn shop today: Poppy’s on Colliergate in York. I had plans…
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Sleeve
The sleeves of the cardigan are growing. It looks as though one ball per sleeve will be sufficient, so no faffing about with dye-lot changing. This week I am reading: Heartless by Gail Carriger “A novel of Vampires, Werewolves and Teapots”. Little Women by Louisa M Alcott – a re-read of a favourite from my…
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Smaller needles
I’ve already mentioned that the Neckdown Wrap Cardigan is my first adult-sized cardigan. I expected that there would be a fairly steep learning curve, but didn’t realise quite how that would manifest itself. Some people read instructions, others prefer to wing it. Some people treat instructions as a prescriptive method to follow, for others they…
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The Urge to Knit
From the Guardian February 1961 (Via Knitty) The urge to knit is surely the most moral force in the world. Knitting is industrious, economical, virtuous, therapeutic, mildly creative and above all tranquillising. Research would show that knitting wives never become nervous wrecks and that it is never knitting girls who break up happy homes. Conversely…
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Etcetera
You’ll never guess what I’ve been knitting. Yes. More long, long rows of cardigan. Only a few more rows to go, then the sleeves and the edging. The next decision will be how to mask the change in dye-lot for the last two skeins. There’s a new book on my wishlist: The Principles of Knitting…
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Four more rows
Knitting activity yesterday and today: I’ve done my daily 4 rows on the Neck Down Wrap Cardigan. Nothing very interesting about that, either in the knitting or the talking about it. 4 inches of the 6 inches at the bottom of the cardigan now done. Yesterday I also cast on the second sock on my…
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Debut
Welcome to the beginning of this blog. I’ve been thinking recently that I wanted somewhere to write about knitting in more detail than most of my Facebook friends might appreciate, and at greater length than Twitter allows. The result of this train of thought is this blog, so I hope you enjoy reading. Here is…