Catherine Parr
Here's Catherine Parr, getting blocked:
and a close-up of the border work:
I started it in December, but didn't work on it all through January and February and half of March, on account of working instead on Starmore's "Mardi Gras," from The Scottish Collection. So, with some interruptions, this took about three months. It's "Catherine Parr," from Tudor Roses, Alice Starmore, The Broad Bay Company, 1998, pp. 108-115. It's available over at Amazon for about $45, I see. I love that book -- I believe it's my favorite of the Starmore collections.
The yarn, of course, has been discontinued. One has choices:
1) Substitute appropriate yarns of one's own choosing,
2) Buy the original yarns at exorbitant prices on ebay,
or, when possible,
3) Substitute Starmore's current yarns, available over at Virtual Yarns.
I've done all three, at different times; this particular sweater was knit up in Starmore's current yarn, the 3-ply Hebridean. I like its hand -- a strong, supple yarn. And I like the colors.
So, relief; that got done before any of the heat waves hit. It'll get packed away, waiting for the winter, after it dries out.
Other than that, a domestic day. Child to dentist. (How do you stay so calm and cheerful? I asked him. Are you doing your breathing exercises? Nope, he said. I'm just being at the dentist's. Ah. I see. And the difference between that and meditation would be.....?) Knitting -- well, really, of course. Cooking -- I think a lovely rosemary and olive oil foccachia, in honor of the sun, which is having its solstice tomorrow. Any round bread would do, really, but we like the rosemary.
And the olive oil doesn't hurt, either.
and a close-up of the border work:
I started it in December, but didn't work on it all through January and February and half of March, on account of working instead on Starmore's "Mardi Gras," from The Scottish Collection. So, with some interruptions, this took about three months. It's "Catherine Parr," from Tudor Roses, Alice Starmore, The Broad Bay Company, 1998, pp. 108-115. It's available over at Amazon for about $45, I see. I love that book -- I believe it's my favorite of the Starmore collections.
The yarn, of course, has been discontinued. One has choices:
1) Substitute appropriate yarns of one's own choosing,
2) Buy the original yarns at exorbitant prices on ebay,
or, when possible,
3) Substitute Starmore's current yarns, available over at Virtual Yarns.
I've done all three, at different times; this particular sweater was knit up in Starmore's current yarn, the 3-ply Hebridean. I like its hand -- a strong, supple yarn. And I like the colors.
So, relief; that got done before any of the heat waves hit. It'll get packed away, waiting for the winter, after it dries out.
Other than that, a domestic day. Child to dentist. (How do you stay so calm and cheerful? I asked him. Are you doing your breathing exercises? Nope, he said. I'm just being at the dentist's. Ah. I see. And the difference between that and meditation would be.....?) Knitting -- well, really, of course. Cooking -- I think a lovely rosemary and olive oil foccachia, in honor of the sun, which is having its solstice tomorrow. Any round bread would do, really, but we like the rosemary.
And the olive oil doesn't hurt, either.
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