War and Thistles
I've got three of the thistles on the back center panel of "Margaret Tudor" done:
I think it looks more difficult than it is. It's fidgety, certainly -- not mindless knitting, by any means; one is reading the chart every row -- but it's not horribly excruciating knitting. I enjoy it a lot. The pattern builds quickly, and the work is satisfying.
If I were working only on this project, it would even be going quickly. But I intersperse it with the mindless vintage cardi (no, no pictures -- too boring) and the mindless 4 feet of garter stitch that will become leper bandages (ditto), so that's why it's taken me a week to get the three thistles done.
I'm off to a conference at the end of the week, and conferences are nice places to get a lot of knitting done, on planes and in hotels, and I may take the thistles with me, not for working on while listening to papers, but for working on in the hotel.
Also, I'll take a lot of reading; I'm hoping to whack a big chunk out of War and Peace. I'm more than halfway through -- it's a wonderful read. It's just that there really is a LOT of it. Worth it, though. Well worth it.
The child and I finally got through the last Harry Potter. We've been reading it as our read-aloud chapter book every night (or, almost every night -- some nights I have a late class, or we're all at a party) since the summer solstice, which is when the book got released, and we finished it up at the fall equinox. So that's what, three months? Not bad. Now we're back to Little Women. Similar moral lessons (Be brave! Be charitable! Trust in love!). No magic.
It gives me heart, though. If we can finish The Order of the Phoenix, I can finish War and Peace.
I think it looks more difficult than it is. It's fidgety, certainly -- not mindless knitting, by any means; one is reading the chart every row -- but it's not horribly excruciating knitting. I enjoy it a lot. The pattern builds quickly, and the work is satisfying.
If I were working only on this project, it would even be going quickly. But I intersperse it with the mindless vintage cardi (no, no pictures -- too boring) and the mindless 4 feet of garter stitch that will become leper bandages (ditto), so that's why it's taken me a week to get the three thistles done.
I'm off to a conference at the end of the week, and conferences are nice places to get a lot of knitting done, on planes and in hotels, and I may take the thistles with me, not for working on while listening to papers, but for working on in the hotel.
Also, I'll take a lot of reading; I'm hoping to whack a big chunk out of War and Peace. I'm more than halfway through -- it's a wonderful read. It's just that there really is a LOT of it. Worth it, though. Well worth it.
The child and I finally got through the last Harry Potter. We've been reading it as our read-aloud chapter book every night (or, almost every night -- some nights I have a late class, or we're all at a party) since the summer solstice, which is when the book got released, and we finished it up at the fall equinox. So that's what, three months? Not bad. Now we're back to Little Women. Similar moral lessons (Be brave! Be charitable! Trust in love!). No magic.
It gives me heart, though. If we can finish The Order of the Phoenix, I can finish War and Peace.
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