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Sep 20
2007
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The first two pieces of Rob’s sweater, the front and back, are blocking on the table as I write. Once they are dry - probably tomorrow - I will sew together one of the shoulder seams and pick up stitches around the neckline to knit the collar. I’ll block the sleeves at the same time so they should be dry, and ready for seaming, by the time I’m done knitting.It’s so exciting to see the almost finished sweater.
This is the result of my drafting out that Japanese pattern last week. I asked Rob to sound out the name of it for me and it turned out to be “linen blouse” - just replace all the L’s with R’s and put a little emphasis on the E at the end of blouse - that’s pretty close to how it sounds. Mine is actually made from some cotton batiste left over from this summer’s Regency costuming.
No this isn’t a foreign landscape, though it does make me think of fields and hedges, these are my scrumbles from a workshop I took through the Guild last week. It was about freeform knitting. I really had no idea what it was going to be when I signed up but I’m very glad I did.
After learning to make scrumbles last week I had a renewed interest in crochet. I’ve learned a little bit here and there in the past but I find I get a little bored and forgetful after a few rows and generally prefer knitted fabric.
