What’s up?
We had a potluck last night at church (as every last Wednesday of the month) and a friend mentioned that I hadn’t posted much lately. So true. Where has the time gone?! Anyhow, thought I’d drop out a note. First, maybe a glimpse of the current knitting project. I’m working on a labyrinth. It’s made of out pure, local wool from Marr Haven — a farm here in Allegan. It’s a tricky little beast for several reasons: (1) It’s the first time I’ve ever worked off of a color chart, (2) I created the pattern (and there are few kinks to work out in it), (3) I’m using the Fair Isle technique on both knitted AND purl rows (the purl rows are demonically difficult to do (and I had to fuss around forever to figure out how!). Despite that, I’m happy with it, for a first (on a lot of fronts).
I started off wrong and the whole thing is somehow inverted (maybe I should have started with a purl row?) but here’s what it looks like in progress:
As for other things,
- I’m woefully behind on where I hoped to be on my Thesis proposal.
- I’ve submitted an article on “church size” to Perspectives but it took them weeks to even let me know they got it and I doubt it’ll be printed. Oh well.
- My parents and sister came up for Thanksgiving, which went pretty well (and included Christmas presents - which Sophia has decided she REALLY likes).
- My habenero plant (which is growing in our living room) has about 15 perfectly ripe peppers on it - WAY Cool!
- My coffee plant (which is about 3 years old) isn’t doing so well and is only about 6 inches tall.
- Darkness has set into Michigan. The sun has gone away for the year and seasonal depression is lurking just around the corner… Again… oh well, time to pull out the light and start tanning.
- And finally, of course, Advent is here which means another busy season.
Hmmmm… I guess I seem blah… yep. Pretty much.
Actually, though, life is going well.
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November 29th, 2007 at 11:44 am
Being even slightly further north and at the eastern end of the Eastern time zone, I’m not exactly loving the early sunset, either. The biggest advantage to working nights this time of year (aside from the fact that it’s what my body prefers) is that I get to drive the hour home in the sun most of the time.
Avoiding having to work strands on the purl side is the reason that most stranded knitting is worked in the round and steeked. That could have worked in this case, but only with a backing sewn on afterwards to cover the really long floats at the bottom and (presumably) top, or perhaps weaving some thread through those floats and backs of the underlying stitches to tack them down, which probably wouldn’t look quite as nice.
November 29th, 2007 at 2:17 pm
It’s funny you mention the steeking thing. I’ve been reading about steeking a lot over the past couple of weeks and it’s a word I NEVER even heard up until about a month ago. Crazy, huh?! Anyhow, I’m not at all certain as to what the process is and have decided I need to learn. Any websites you’d suggest?
The purl-side-switching has been a good thing to learn and it’s getting quicker, I’m hoping by the end of the first-run on this labyrinth both the purl and knit sides will be more comfortable.
A trip to my LYS this morning taught me that my “mirror image problem” was simply the fault of doing my knit and purl rows backwards (as I suspected) so I guess I’ll have to try another labyrinth when this one is done
It’ll be a good way to make sure I’ve fully worked out the pattern too, I suppose.
Grace and Peace,
`tim
December 1st, 2007 at 12:59 pm
Oh my GOSH! You are so talented and creative. Much more ambitious than me too. I’m just working on “Christmas” dishcoths!