More munro knitting, this time atop Buachaille Etive Mor, the huge pink granite “shepherd” of Glen Etive, towards Glen Coe. After a rocky scramble of an ascent and a few minutes across the moon-like surface of the tops of Stob Dearg we were up in the clouds. I worked on a sock: but could only…
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happy birthday to me
among my treats this morning were these: 34 wonderful skeins of appleton’s crewel wool. Aren’t they lovely? off for a walk in Glencoe…
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Lela Nargi, ed., Knitting Memories: Reflections on the Knitter’s Life (Voyageur Press, 2006). Now, I don’t want to be churlish. There are some great things in this book of short essays edited by Lela Nargi. Elanor Lynn’s piece, for example, really gives a window on her idiosyncratic creative process and the particular sense of place,…
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Arose yesterday with the intention of fashioning something jolly with this I had an empire line and big floral pockets edged with red bias binding in mind. But it being a cold, grim, dreich sort of day I ended up making this instead the antithesis of summery. Nice father’s day gift, though – the Alpaca…
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Wendy Keele, Poems of Color: Knitting in the Bohus Tradition (Interweave Press, 1995). I had been looking forward to the Bohus book for a while, and I was not disappointed. What a wonderful resource Interweave and Wendy Keele produced when they published this book in 1995. I was utterly gripped with the story of Emma…
Read Moredomiknitrix: (not quite) eating my words
Two knitting books turned up yesterday: Jennifer Stafford’s DominKNITrix and Wendy Keele’s Poems of Color: Knitting in the Bohus Tradition. I spent a most enjoyable evening with them both (more on the Bohus book later). Now, I am suspicious, as you know, of Stafford. I really didn’t warm to her when interviewed, couldn’t see the…
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Here’s the completed baby jacket Seems a shame, given its fashionable A shape, that I don’t fit into it meself. But I am sure it will be better suited to the ‘new arrival’ (infant parlance) when it arrives. Helen kindly asked about the buttons: they are made from fimo soft clay, cooked at 220 degrees…
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I suppose it all depends on what you mean by “public”… In any case, my contribution to worldwide knit-in-public day (June 9th) was to take a project (something I am knitting for the Rowan exchange) to the top of Ben Lomond and knit it there. Here I am. The weather was fantastic — just a…
Read Morefinishing touches
did I mention I was enjoying knitting the baby cardigan? I have now completed all edgings and the collar: and have made some tasty buttons. Here they are before: and after baking: they were meant to be ladybirds, but I found sculpting ladybird faces a bit of a challenge. Though now merely suggestive of my…
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progress on the Debbie Bliss baby jacket. I’ve been working on it while out and about round Loch Lomond this weekend – – it will have an interesting collection of Scottish locations knitted into it. I enjoyed the yoke construction, and like the way the raglan shaping shows off the stripes.
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