Textile Update
We've been having a lot of text on the blog lately; time for some textiles.
Here is proof that I have indeed started the raw chicken Viking hat, which I expect to be done by the time the next department baby arrives in May:
Here you see the first drumstick started. As the pattern promises, the hat itself is easy; the drumsticks take some fiddling. But they're entertaining.
However, I am moved to confess that I'm not really knitting much these days. I knit, yes; I've got the raw chicken baby hat for demented Vikings, and I've got the fluffy pink Colinette throw, for knitting upon in office meetings -- have four candidates for the Theater Professor position coming to campus this week and next, so I'll get LOTS of knitting done then -- but in reality, most of my textile time, since the new year, has been spent not on knitting, but on embroidery.
Yes. The Jacobean boxers, for instance, which I discussed earlier. Also a bunch of other projects that I was in the middle of when I started the knitting blog and got sidetracked into all knitting, all the time.
Here's one of my major projects, upon which I have, in the last few weeks, made a bit of progress:
This is "Angel of Love," designed by Marilyn Leavitt-Imblum. The design's from 1993; I bought the pattern and the supplies in what must have been 1994 or 5. And have been working on it on and off, mostly off, ever since. When I bought the works, the store owner helpfully told me it would take a long time. This remark went up my nose -- who did she think I was, anyway? A beginner? An idiot?
Well, the latter, yes.
Here's the problem:
In this detail, helpfully photographed for you by Sam, the Blog Photographer, note that you are not looking at a piece of cross stitch. No. You are looking at SOME cross stitch, along with one hell of a lot of beads. This piece is not embellished with beads. This piece is encrusted with beads. It is getting heavy to hold.
Mind you, it's gorgeous. Sam and the child sit with me on the sofa, while we're all watching "Good Eats" on the Food Channel (we've gotten addicted; more on that another time; I'd like to discuss salt), and look over and say, "Wow."
Honestly. They say "Wow."
I'd like to get it done someday. I think that would be nice. It's in rotation with the Jacobean boxers, mentioned earlier, some giant cross stitch view of foxes in winter, and an humongous piece which I don't think I'll talk about now -- no, I'll wait, and provide a picture of it later. Yeah. Later.
So, that's what I've really been doing around here. I knit, yes. But just sometimes.
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Whoa! While I was googling for a picture of the finished "Angel of Love,", so you could see what it's supposed to look like, I discovered the support group for those of us toiling on the piece. So if you'd like to read more opinions than mine about how long the damn thing takes (and whether or not it's worth it), you can just go on over there. I'm not alone.
Here is proof that I have indeed started the raw chicken Viking hat, which I expect to be done by the time the next department baby arrives in May:
Here you see the first drumstick started. As the pattern promises, the hat itself is easy; the drumsticks take some fiddling. But they're entertaining.
However, I am moved to confess that I'm not really knitting much these days. I knit, yes; I've got the raw chicken baby hat for demented Vikings, and I've got the fluffy pink Colinette throw, for knitting upon in office meetings -- have four candidates for the Theater Professor position coming to campus this week and next, so I'll get LOTS of knitting done then -- but in reality, most of my textile time, since the new year, has been spent not on knitting, but on embroidery.
Yes. The Jacobean boxers, for instance, which I discussed earlier. Also a bunch of other projects that I was in the middle of when I started the knitting blog and got sidetracked into all knitting, all the time.
Here's one of my major projects, upon which I have, in the last few weeks, made a bit of progress:
This is "Angel of Love," designed by Marilyn Leavitt-Imblum. The design's from 1993; I bought the pattern and the supplies in what must have been 1994 or 5. And have been working on it on and off, mostly off, ever since. When I bought the works, the store owner helpfully told me it would take a long time. This remark went up my nose -- who did she think I was, anyway? A beginner? An idiot?
Well, the latter, yes.
Here's the problem:
In this detail, helpfully photographed for you by Sam, the Blog Photographer, note that you are not looking at a piece of cross stitch. No. You are looking at SOME cross stitch, along with one hell of a lot of beads. This piece is not embellished with beads. This piece is encrusted with beads. It is getting heavy to hold.
Mind you, it's gorgeous. Sam and the child sit with me on the sofa, while we're all watching "Good Eats" on the Food Channel (we've gotten addicted; more on that another time; I'd like to discuss salt), and look over and say, "Wow."
Honestly. They say "Wow."
I'd like to get it done someday. I think that would be nice. It's in rotation with the Jacobean boxers, mentioned earlier, some giant cross stitch view of foxes in winter, and an humongous piece which I don't think I'll talk about now -- no, I'll wait, and provide a picture of it later. Yeah. Later.
So, that's what I've really been doing around here. I knit, yes. But just sometimes.
******************************
Whoa! While I was googling for a picture of the finished "Angel of Love,", so you could see what it's supposed to look like, I discovered the support group for those of us toiling on the piece. So if you'd like to read more opinions than mine about how long the damn thing takes (and whether or not it's worth it), you can just go on over there. I'm not alone.
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