Posted on August 19, 2004 at 2:24 pm
I am waiting for my Mom to catch up a bit in the Tuja-along, but I couldn’t help myself last night after I finished the second sleeve for the Giraffe sweater. I knit through the first few rows of the chart where it gets really heavy with the criss crossing bits. Oh my, but it was fun. I had a hard time putting it down to go to bed. I dreamt of crossing cables and woke up this morning with a serious knitting jones.
I think that I may have to make an aran soon.
Warning: complete change of geography here, from the Aran isles to the Japanese archipelago . . . I don’t want anyone getting hurt as I ruthlessly shift topics:
Here’s a picture of the beautiful yarn I special ordered at TKGA from the Habu booth. It arrived in the mail tied up with a charming little green grosgrain ribbon. It’s several strands of their silk tsumugi wrapped in a black thread. Two pounds of it. Yes, it was a splurge. I’m going to make the French Sleeve Cardigan that Habu had on display at TKGA, which is a short jacket with a great looking collar knit in three pieces on 15s. The instructions are pure poetry, spare yet descriptive, only about half a page long. They go something like
Cast on 8 stitches
Using yarn and large needles
Make a pleasing shape
Okay, there’s a little more to it than that.
As you might have guessed, all of this giraffe and cables and silk cord foofah is a giant ruse to hide that I am procrastinating the seaming of Jaipur, which is fussy work and not going very well.
How could that be? Linen drape and I have been getting along so well up until now. (oh, sorry. Did that sarcasm drip on you? You want a tissue?)
Here’s a hint:
I think I may have to knit some gussets.
5 comments
Habu divine
Knit it well
In good health
Pathetic but the best I can manage at 11.48 p.m. !
Jaipur – oh dear.You’ll love it when it’s done.Really. :0)
Love the yarn haiku. I was just telling hubby last night about the WWII knitting patterns I saw in somebody’s blog (can’t for the life of me remember whose) and how similar they are to the old-fashioned cake recipes. “Knit a pleasing shape”/”make a batter and bake it,” (no oven temps., hardly any ingredients listed) indeed! Those were “real” women, Baby!
Love your Habu – I can’t wait to see the cardigan!
Well, you’ve certainly taken care of any impulse I had to take advantage of some of the discounted, discontinued Linen Drape colors floating around out there. I hated the soy silk so much, I bet I’d hate Linen Drape as much or more. elasticity = good, no stretch = hand badness, mind badness.
As for Habu – some of my friends and I are organizing a field trip in September and we are very, very excited. I mentioned it and they were like – yes, when? now? OK.
My knitting related haikus have always run more to laments. They all go something like these:
That blasted last stitch
laddered back sixteen whole rows.
Peek through my trellis.
and
I need one more skein!
How could I have miscounted?
You got blue Heilo?
Sigh. -K.
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