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Tuesday, July 29, 2003

I began the ribbing for my handpaint vest yesterday - and remembered, once begun, how darn hard it is to knit with a dark yarn indoors. I got to the last stitches in the second round and couldn’t tell if the next stitch was supposed to be a K or a P so I set the whole thing down and will wait for sunlight. Not far off now.

I’m pleased to be in some sort of knitting mode, though I’m supposed to be knitting Christmas gifts. I can’t figure out why I’m so stuck on Ben’s socks. They’re at the heel turning stage - half done and about to switch to just knit stitch in the round. I even like the color - just can’t seem to bring myself to finish them. Trouble is - they’re hogging the size 3 circs. On the trip to PA I showed mama the Winter in the City hat and she staked her claim. Since I love the pattern but not the color, and since it’s a color that would look okay on her, I offered it to her. It’s another felt project. This time I’ll take it to her house and felt it with her. She already got my BaaBaaJoe’s felt hat last year and I promptly knitted another which I’ve yet to felt! Idiot.

Another thing I bought last Saturday at GotYarn was Anny Blatt’s Fall 2003#191. I’d seen it when I drove up on Thursday (yes, I went twice last week!) and thought it was extremely inspiring - but priced at $16 it was expensive enough to make me pause. I find her instructions extremely difficult to follow, even though I am sure if I bothered to read them carefully I could figure them out. I also find them extremely interesting. When I stopped in again on Saturday I bought the book, knowing full well I probably wouldn’t make anything from it. I would be inspired by the projects, and what’s interesting in the designs is the combination of all sorts of different yarn textures, not the specific combinations. Some look like intarsia, some like stranded colorwork. The geometry of the Anny Blatt designs has always appealed to me, though I’m still knitting mostly tubes, a la EZ. I told myself, this much inspiration for $16 is a bargain and so far I’m still inspired.

Eh. That’s all the fiber news. My work week is challenging but do-able. And a precious young friend is coming for a visit today - dropping by the library in the afternoon, then heading up to my house to visit with BD, then spend the night.

Something in my brain keeps whispering to me that once the summer is over I won’t feel so stressed. I don’t even have a reason to feel uncomfortable - so I will blame it on Mars coming close to earth in the next few weeks. I hate it, though, when there is a vague feeling of dread niggling the back of my brain. Wonder what my subconscious thinks is going to happen before Labor Day? Weird!

posted by Bess | 6:24 AM

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It was a perfect weekend, with glorious weather and time to enjoy it. Did a little spinning. Did a little knitting. And did drink my coffee down on the pier - just in time, too. BD will be doing pier repair work this week. Or at least, he should be.

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I know I'm coming to it late but I have been in a 30 year thrall with Follett's Eye of the Needle and had not wanted to read anything else of his because that had been one of my few Perfect Reads. When one has had perfection one doesn't want to tamper with that pure pleasure by trying to top it. I shan't re-read it either, since a Perfect Experience depends so much on where you are at the moment. If I'm not in the same place when I re-read a book, I may not have the same reaction. Far better to hold on to the memory of perfection.

I was willing to give this one a try because it was so different from his regular spy/thriller/adventure stories. I figured I'd be less likely to make comparisons. I was right. The sweeping saga of midieval cathedral buildilng caught me up for a delicious week of reading. I loved imagining England full of wilderness. I was a bit surprised at the amount of traveling - and the distances traveled - by folk who were not particularly wealthy, but that was just a wee bit of a literary leap and heck, how would I know how far a skilled craftsman might journey 800 years ago.

That civil war between Maud and Stephen that brought Henry II to the throne is fertile ground for many authors - I am thinking here of Ellis Peter's Brother Cadfael novels and my own beloved Roberta Gellis' admittedly tawdry titled, but oh so wonderfully written The Sword and the Swan

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Could just barely stand it - but something made me want to see how it turned out

EH.

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Wow!