Jul 27, 2006
This week, chapters 44-46!
Really!
A little OTN moment: I'm working on a Faroese
shawl, which has only a little section of lace. I've knitted
lace before, but this project...well, it was going to be hard
enough; I didn't want to kill myself.
This is the first project I've planned from washing, drying, and
spinning the fiber, all the way to knitting. I'm going to do some
funky dye thing to it when I'm done and I"m going to (God Willing
and the Creeks Don't Rise) take this to SOAR for the
gallery.
But.
The knitting is a total leap of faith. I've knitted 25 rows and
it's barely 3-4 long. It's 390 stitches, decreasing regularly down
to...well...7 that get grafted in a tricky way that I'm sure I'll
marvel at when I get there. I got the pattern from Claudia at
CountryWool.com. She's a genius with this stuff.
Anyway.
Lace and all things lace-weight are a leap of faith. They look like
a ball of twisted blah, then you wet and pin them and suddenly
it's...LORDY! I made
THAT?!
Right now, my whole life is a leap of faith...so it seemed an
appropriate thing to do.
And, btw, HEY, did you hear Cast-on's essay last week? It was as
though we dovetailed our themes on purpose! Synchronicity?
Love that Jung!
Promos from Faith at The
Knitting Cook, and Jeannie of Crochet Cast.
As always, Pride and
Prejudice is narrated by Annie Coleman. Intro music provided
by GarageBand.com which connected me with Joshua Christian’s
“Chasing Hiro.‿
