Jam Tomorrow But Not Today

Now that I'm done with the Mindless Bit O'Fluff, I'm working on Elsebeth Lavold's "Cul-de-Sac" vest, from the Fall '03 Knitter's magazine, and it's going Very Quickly -- I'm nearly done with the back. Pictures tomorrow but not today -- (sort of like jam) (50 points if you can name where the quote's from) -- cause I'm going off quickly quickly to have coffee and discuss 18th century drama with -- we hope -- the last of the candidates. So no time to show you what I'm doing. But I will. Really.

And in the meantime, I haven't mentioned the Knitting Tarot lately, but it's been growing rapidly, and has indeed entered a new phase of its existence, wherein the displayed cards change every now and then, and you've not got access to them all online at EVERY moment singly -- just all the moments put together. If you see what I mean. I'm taken today, though, with X, "The Swift and Winder," which is the Knitting Tarot's equivalent of The Wheel.

As Amber conceives of it, the Swift and Winder is all about watching as the yarn plays itself out and onto the needles. Trusting that there's a pattern there, even if we haven't invented it ourselves. And that all the interesting little bits of the yarn -- the flecks of color, the dazzle -- will eventually reveal themselves, if we wait.

As will the rest of the Knitting Tarot.