Diligence
So I've been very good lately and have NOT started any new knitting projects, though I have, in the stash, yet more shiny fluffy metallic mohair. Yep, I do. But I'm not knitting it, because I am diligently working on "Queen Anne's Lace":
This is another Alice Starmore design, this time from Stillwater, 1996. I've googled, but I can't find a picture of the finished design online, alas. But I can tell you that the key to the design is that the marled yarn is meant to evoke the sun-and-shadow pattern of the plant's flowers.
Oh, I know! Here's a picture of the flower. My sweater is going to look Just Like That. Except, as you can tell, with a lot of purpley tones added in.
I find this design even more meditative than usual. I think it's because of the subtle color changes. This is not a loud sweater. This will be a calm, meaningful, workmanlike sweater such as will be appropriate for walking on hills -- which I have some of around here -- and making decisions about what to do with the garden shed -- which I have not got, though maybe Sam will want to make one when he sees the sweater.
No, it's not exciting. But it requires paying attention, and it's restful, and it's easy on the eyes, and I find it intriguing.
So I'm diligently working on it.
(Translation of entire previous entry: I was seduced by the clever use of the marled yarn into believing that I, who am Really Cheerful when knitting silly things made out of metallic mohair, would Really Enjoy knitting an intricate Fair Isle created out of subtle color changes in dull colors. Right. But I'm determined to get the thing done. And then, by God, I'll wear it. It will be useful. It will be pretty. And there is time enough in my life to knit the Trendsetter Dune that I have in the stash. In two colors. No! Stop! Not even THINKING about the Trendsetter Dune. Even though some of it is red.)
This is another Alice Starmore design, this time from Stillwater, 1996. I've googled, but I can't find a picture of the finished design online, alas. But I can tell you that the key to the design is that the marled yarn is meant to evoke the sun-and-shadow pattern of the plant's flowers.
Oh, I know! Here's a picture of the flower. My sweater is going to look Just Like That. Except, as you can tell, with a lot of purpley tones added in.
I find this design even more meditative than usual. I think it's because of the subtle color changes. This is not a loud sweater. This will be a calm, meaningful, workmanlike sweater such as will be appropriate for walking on hills -- which I have some of around here -- and making decisions about what to do with the garden shed -- which I have not got, though maybe Sam will want to make one when he sees the sweater.
No, it's not exciting. But it requires paying attention, and it's restful, and it's easy on the eyes, and I find it intriguing.
So I'm diligently working on it.
(Translation of entire previous entry: I was seduced by the clever use of the marled yarn into believing that I, who am Really Cheerful when knitting silly things made out of metallic mohair, would Really Enjoy knitting an intricate Fair Isle created out of subtle color changes in dull colors. Right. But I'm determined to get the thing done. And then, by God, I'll wear it. It will be useful. It will be pretty. And there is time enough in my life to knit the Trendsetter Dune that I have in the stash. In two colors. No! Stop! Not even THINKING about the Trendsetter Dune. Even though some of it is red.)
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