Knitting Season Declared Open
Oh, the hell with it. I'm tired of embroidery. Knitting season, which ended late, is now starting early.
Here's the end result of a project which was NOT mindless, Jade Starmore's "Oriental Flower," from The Children's Collection:
Now that it has its little buttons on (only the finest plastic for MY grandchild), it's ready to be sent off for Darling Livy's 3rd birthday.
Here's the beginning of a project which IS pretty mindless, though the front of the cardigan will have a couple of easy cables:
I'm such a sucker for these vintage sweater/skirt sets. This one's being knit up in Authentic Shetland Yarn, according to the label, and I have to admit I wonder whether even I, who have a pretty high tolerance for wearing wool, even when other people might not, will comfortably wear something this scratchy. Yes! Yes, I will! Constant itching all day long is a small price to pay for high fashion.
And here's something so completely mindless that I do think one could knit it whilst in a coma:
It's the beginning of a leper bandage (this is all Ryan's fault by the way), and if you were a beginning knitter, and wanted practice, and didn't know anything but the knit stitch, you could do this, for a good cause, and boy, would you get some practice, cause the thing's supposed to end up 4 feet long, and it's all knit, all the time.
But I must say that while knitting it I've seen why it will be useful. It feels good and it stretches. And of course, it will be reusable, which gauze bandages aren't -- this can be washed and sterilized.
But it's mindless. It's numbingly mindless.
Excellent for knitting in public, though -- you should see the results when people ask what you're knitting and you tell them.
Here's the end result of a project which was NOT mindless, Jade Starmore's "Oriental Flower," from The Children's Collection:
Now that it has its little buttons on (only the finest plastic for MY grandchild), it's ready to be sent off for Darling Livy's 3rd birthday.
Here's the beginning of a project which IS pretty mindless, though the front of the cardigan will have a couple of easy cables:
I'm such a sucker for these vintage sweater/skirt sets. This one's being knit up in Authentic Shetland Yarn, according to the label, and I have to admit I wonder whether even I, who have a pretty high tolerance for wearing wool, even when other people might not, will comfortably wear something this scratchy. Yes! Yes, I will! Constant itching all day long is a small price to pay for high fashion.
And here's something so completely mindless that I do think one could knit it whilst in a coma:
It's the beginning of a leper bandage (this is all Ryan's fault by the way), and if you were a beginning knitter, and wanted practice, and didn't know anything but the knit stitch, you could do this, for a good cause, and boy, would you get some practice, cause the thing's supposed to end up 4 feet long, and it's all knit, all the time.
But I must say that while knitting it I've seen why it will be useful. It feels good and it stretches. And of course, it will be reusable, which gauze bandages aren't -- this can be washed and sterilized.
But it's mindless. It's numbingly mindless.
Excellent for knitting in public, though -- you should see the results when people ask what you're knitting and you tell them.
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