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I knit so I do not stab things.
May. 4th, 2022 09:05 amI do regularly boggle at the number of traditionally feminine crafts that involve pointy things, and often repeated stabbing motions. (Needle felting. If you're really stabby, the craft you want is needle felting.)
I didn't feel like needle felting, though. So the other night when the alternative was throwing all the dishes to the ground and smashing them, I cast on a project that's been in my Rav queue since 2013 (Nikol Lohr's "Jane Eyre" shawl, from Literary Knits, which has two other shawls I would love to make (*), assuming I ever become the kind of person to wear shawls; OTOH I am the kind of person who likes to knit shawls so maybe what I need is a shawl-wearing friend...) with some yarn that's been in my stash for even longer than that (Madelinetosh 80/10/10 MCN Worsted, colorway 'Ink' - think the darkest possible jeans with the teeniest bit of distress).
This pattern does hit the perfect "shawl to wear when one traipses about the moors" spot that is kind of my platonic ideal of knitwear. My next project might be to find a moor to traipse about - I have friends in Yorkshire and Scotland? I think there are moors there? - and knit more things to wear while traipsing (aran or Fair Isle sweater? knee-high socks?) while arranging to go there.
I've made about half the gauge swatch and I seem to be... close? we'll have to see what happens to the swatch after I finish and wash it. Also I hopefully have more yarn than I need but I don't always trust.
(*) I mean look at that first shawl, "Emma" - it's literary nerdery and science nerdery and a cool shawl construction? but red is the wrong color for it; it needs to be either the color of Scheele's Green, or the blue-violet color of arsenic in a flame test...
I didn't feel like needle felting, though. So the other night when the alternative was throwing all the dishes to the ground and smashing them, I cast on a project that's been in my Rav queue since 2013 (Nikol Lohr's "Jane Eyre" shawl, from Literary Knits, which has two other shawls I would love to make (*), assuming I ever become the kind of person to wear shawls; OTOH I am the kind of person who likes to knit shawls so maybe what I need is a shawl-wearing friend...) with some yarn that's been in my stash for even longer than that (Madelinetosh 80/10/10 MCN Worsted, colorway 'Ink' - think the darkest possible jeans with the teeniest bit of distress).
This pattern does hit the perfect "shawl to wear when one traipses about the moors" spot that is kind of my platonic ideal of knitwear. My next project might be to find a moor to traipse about - I have friends in Yorkshire and Scotland? I think there are moors there? - and knit more things to wear while traipsing (aran or Fair Isle sweater? knee-high socks?) while arranging to go there.
I've made about half the gauge swatch and I seem to be... close? we'll have to see what happens to the swatch after I finish and wash it. Also I hopefully have more yarn than I need but I don't always trust.
(*) I mean look at that first shawl, "Emma" - it's literary nerdery and science nerdery and a cool shawl construction? but red is the wrong color for it; it needs to be either the color of Scheele's Green, or the blue-violet color of arsenic in a flame test...
