magical!!!
First of all: by not using the computer too much, and trying out new ways of dealing with the keyboard and mouse, the carpal tunnel syndrome (thanks Dixie for handing me the name for it!) seems almost to have gone away. Even me knitting yesterday did not change this. Maybe (a girl can hope) it is not at all knitting related!
Remember I ordered this book a few weeks ago? From what I read about it, it seemed like a book with very nice projects in it. I had to order it all from the US, since amazon.co.uk didn't have it.
Well it arrived this saturday. Inconveniently, I had been taking the eldest to school (she goes to a school on saturdays where she learns Dutch) and been shopping and got home at 12.30 and saw the book arrived. The youngest needed her nap, husband had to go to his driving lessons (we have been w/o a car most of our lives but decided we need to have it now) so I could not look at it. At 13.00 we were supposed to be at a garden party at our neighbour's, the youngest still was not a sleep and I had this TERRIBLE URGE to look in my new knitting book!
It haunted me all through the party, but then, at about 7 pm, I opened it up and was amazed.
Amazed at the magicalliy of being able to knit a moebius from the middel and out, and to be able to create things that look like pottery and sea animals. These are not just your very nice projects.
So I tried imediately to knit a moebius, and then searched the house for the right type of yarn to make one of the baskets. Of course, I had tremendous amounts of cotton, blends, acrylic and even silk yarn, but not much 100% wool which is necessary since you have to felt this project (as many of them in the book). In the end, I had a bunch of small skeins of tapistry wool, which I bought ages ago at a second hand shop. These will work, I think. Only backdrop: Since tapistry people seem to think that the most interesting things to make are landscapes, the left over skeins were mainly brown and yellowish. Now brown is not my colour. At all. Nor is yellowish. So I am knitting up a basket which colour most of all makes me think of those diapers I still have to deal with. Maybe in a year that will be over. Then I'll have the basket to look at.
Let us hope the colours come out a bit different when felted. I vigourously hope for something that in some way resembles pottery. No doubt however: I'll buy yarn the right colour to make this basket once more. Or twice. It knits up really fast!
Remember I ordered this book a few weeks ago? From what I read about it, it seemed like a book with very nice projects in it. I had to order it all from the US, since amazon.co.uk didn't have it.
Well it arrived this saturday. Inconveniently, I had been taking the eldest to school (she goes to a school on saturdays where she learns Dutch) and been shopping and got home at 12.30 and saw the book arrived. The youngest needed her nap, husband had to go to his driving lessons (we have been w/o a car most of our lives but decided we need to have it now) so I could not look at it. At 13.00 we were supposed to be at a garden party at our neighbour's, the youngest still was not a sleep and I had this TERRIBLE URGE to look in my new knitting book!
It haunted me all through the party, but then, at about 7 pm, I opened it up and was amazed.
Amazed at the magicalliy of being able to knit a moebius from the middel and out, and to be able to create things that look like pottery and sea animals. These are not just your very nice projects.
So I tried imediately to knit a moebius, and then searched the house for the right type of yarn to make one of the baskets. Of course, I had tremendous amounts of cotton, blends, acrylic and even silk yarn, but not much 100% wool which is necessary since you have to felt this project (as many of them in the book). In the end, I had a bunch of small skeins of tapistry wool, which I bought ages ago at a second hand shop. These will work, I think. Only backdrop: Since tapistry people seem to think that the most interesting things to make are landscapes, the left over skeins were mainly brown and yellowish. Now brown is not my colour. At all. Nor is yellowish. So I am knitting up a basket which colour most of all makes me think of those diapers I still have to deal with. Maybe in a year that will be over. Then I'll have the basket to look at.
Let us hope the colours come out a bit different when felted. I vigourously hope for something that in some way resembles pottery. No doubt however: I'll buy yarn the right colour to make this basket once more. Or twice. It knits up really fast!
Tingletangle wrote this at 8/22/2005 07:46:00 AM
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