Green Sleeves
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We've been reading a lot lately, as you can see by the nifty new list of books on our sidebar. Robb and I tend to read serially, meaning that we read a lot of one author's work at a time. I get the books first because I'm such a freakishly fast reader. I have the habit of reading novels twice in a row, once for plot, and then the second time to enjoy the structure. We've been reading a lot of quasi-trashy English novels from the 1920's and 1930's lately, and I fear my already antiquated slang is going to get even more eccentric and confusing to my co-workers.
Other wise, I've been working on another sweater. This one is for me, and like the one I made for Robb, it is self-designed, and knit from the bottom up. ("Self designed" is, I have to admit, a very pompous way of saying "I'm making this up as I go along.")
I'm using a slip stitch technique, because although I'm easily seduced by skeins of variegated yarn, I actually don't like the this style of yarn looks when knitted in plain stockinette stitch (normal knitting). To my eyes, this kind of yarn produces a garment that looks like icky Martian camouflage.
Don't let these photos of knitting fool you into thinking that I'm some kind of Domestic Goddess. I'm not. I've fallen asleep with a detective novel clutched in my bony fingers almost every night this week, leaving Robb to wash our dishes.
We've been reading a lot lately, as you can see by the nifty new list of books on our sidebar. Robb and I tend to read serially, meaning that we read a lot of one author's work at a time. I get the books first because I'm such a freakishly fast reader. I have the habit of reading novels twice in a row, once for plot, and then the second time to enjoy the structure. We've been reading a lot of quasi-trashy English novels from the 1920's and 1930's lately, and I fear my already antiquated slang is going to get even more eccentric and confusing to my co-workers.
Other wise, I've been working on another sweater. This one is for me, and like the one I made for Robb, it is self-designed, and knit from the bottom up. ("Self designed" is, I have to admit, a very pompous way of saying "I'm making this up as I go along.")
I'm using a slip stitch technique, because although I'm easily seduced by skeins of variegated yarn, I actually don't like the this style of yarn looks when knitted in plain stockinette stitch (normal knitting). To my eyes, this kind of yarn produces a garment that looks like icky Martian camouflage.
Don't let these photos of knitting fool you into thinking that I'm some kind of Domestic Goddess. I'm not. I've fallen asleep with a detective novel clutched in my bony fingers almost every night this week, leaving Robb to wash our dishes.
Comments
I'm not going to comment on the sleeve other than to say words cannot describe how pretty I think it looks. :-)
Knit Wit
By the way, I am jonesing for my own copy of "The Mushroom Girls Virus Book", now out of print. If ANYONE knows where I can get a copy of this at a reasonable price( EBAY is charging 3 times the original cover price!!), please let me know!
Lock Wenchie
Idhunna
Please can you be generous with the slip stitch pattern you are using?
Thank you,
Janey
janeyknitting@yahoo.ca