The 4-ply cardigan has been pushed aside for a little gratuitous shawl knitting. The shawl has been worked on and little now and then, but I feel so frustrated with my cardigan that I thought I would give Mosswell (i.e. Aeolian) some love. As always, a shawl actually works up quickly once you pay it some attention. I zipped through the Set-up Edge Chart and am now midway through the Main Edge Chart. Another few rows and I will have a finished object. I feel almost faint.
Still not head-over-heels with the pattern. It is exceedingly well-written, well-charted and well-explained, but it does lack a certain oomph. Perhaps I expected too much from the woman behind Laminaria (still my favourite shawl pattern), but I thought the stitches would flow into each other far more than they are. This is not to say that I am not enjoying knitting my Mosswell (because I am) but it is a different experience to what I had anticipated.
It is also very green which is why Mosswell will be given a little dye-bath once I have bound off. I hope to give a slightly more, er, “mossy” look. If not, I’ll just rename the darn thing. Blackwell. Brownwell. Mudwell.
Oh, I nearly forgot.
Come autumn I will be releasing a couple of patterns for some scarves (just in time for Christmas knitting – you’d think I had planned this).One of the scarf patterns is currently with test knitters, but I thought I would let you catch a glimpse of my swatch. Once Mosswell comes off the needles, I will start working on the scarves in earnest and write more about the design process.
Oh, but for more hours in the day.
A couple of links:
- The early reviews of Christopher Nolan’s Inception are in – and they are frighteningly GOOD.
- I chuckled at this list of imperfect Romance heroes/heroines. Oh no, Lady Alys is tall and odd-eyed! Prudence Lancaster is bespectacled and plain!
- ‘Till Derrida Do Us Part’ is the loveliest thing I read for some time. Other Half read it and said: “your mother would kill you”. I replied: “I’m pondering if having a wedding ceremony just to interrogate the idea of “the vow” would alter the contextual meaning-making of the vow to such a degree that it could no longer be said to be a vow but rather an avowed non-vow?” Then he threw me out of the living room. Men.
- This method of making iced coffee looks very inviting – and possibly also a bit too daunting to someone whose idea of a good cup o’ java is wholly dependent upon how much sleep she has had.
MEN. Indeed. Your wish to interrogate the idea of “the vow” made me think of my 2nd daughter, who excels in paraconsistent logic. Not that it was a paraconsistent statement, but it just reminded me of something she’d love, too. And I’m so eager to see Inception!
I can’t wait to see your designs. Does that mean that I should stock up on lace weight while in Portland?
@Lori: My academic days may be long behind me, but that does not mean I cannot run rings around myself with convoluted language and delightful leaps of logic. I had never heard of paraconsistent logic (my field was more literary theory than out-and-out philosophy), but a quick google brush-up has me grinning.
@Kirsten: Only one of the three scarves will be lacy – and that one uses one ball of Kidsilk Haze (or equivalent). But you have my permission to go nutso on laceweight in Portland.
What’s the daunting bit about the coffee? You just pour water over the ground coffee and then filter it – with an 8 hour gap between the two things.
@Chris: you know what I’m like in the morning. Now imagine ANYTHING that involves caffeine that does not go: “kettle, sink, water, boil, crap instant coffee, milk, AHHHH”. It’s a bit too much to ask of me.
Who says it has to be done in the morning? When you’ve had your instant coffee, showered, et. and feel reasonably awake, you pour water on the coffee. Then later in the day you filter it. Some say that once can allow it to steep for up to 24 hours, so you could also do the filtering the next day.