It's here.
Some thoughts and favourites. Bear in mind I'm off to Australia in January, which is making me keener on the light-weight stuff overall!
Alicia Tabbard - might look good on tall, boyish physiques, but not on mine!
Refined Aran Jacket - nice enough. I like the saddle shoulder detail. Probably not for me.
Bonbon pullover - don't like the name (shallow, me?) Nice enough, interesting nexk details, but not me.
Brushed Lace Cardigan looks good, but rather feminine for me. Would probably get lots of wear, though.
Selva Skirt - Um, no. Looks ok with the jacket, but bad without IMHO. Though might be better with *more* curves.
Henley Perfected - quite like it. Alpaca would make it pretty warm, but - pretty.
Sweater Girl Pullover - if you call it this, surely the model should have breasts? I think in a very different fit (ie negative ease) *could* qualify as a sweater girl sweater, but I think it'd drive me mad to knit it.
Forbes Forest Pullover - bobbles, schmobbles.
Bubble Cable Dolman - too batwingy for my taste.
Colette Pullover - nearly just said yuck. But look at the extra pics - it's a bit big for the model, which detracts from it. Interesting to have cat faces (I'm *not* a cat person, though) but I like seeing them disappear in the decreases....
Puffed Wheat Pullover - never. too short, too wide in the body for such fitted sleeves. too boring. And a horrible colour! (I know that's not your fault, Kate).
Citrus Yoke Pullover - not really.
Celtic Tote - I like how the contrast yarn is used. like it. Probably won't ever knit it (knitted bags - not so good, most of the time).
Tilting Cable Socks - I think I like them. hard to see with the colour variation.
Ivy League Vest - yum. I like the edging detail, and the different patterns. And so wearable, and fitted. - could fit my wardrobe, I think.
Subway Mittens - aren't these her CharlieCard mittens? Fair enough. Not a very complex pattern, though a good idea. Might work well for peeps in London with their Oystercards, except it's not often cold enough outside, and once you're on the tube - there's a great stripping off required, it's so warm!
Kilm Gloves - nice enough. Not my colours, and it would rarely be cold enough here for such fairly bulky gloves (and if it were, I'd wear mittens). Could look great, though.
Logan River Wrap - Hmm. Not very exciting.
El Sol Pullover - too big for her? Doing that dreaded droop around the armpits - I think a good hoick up would help - like Brenda spoke of recently, pulling back tyhe yoke of something and making it *much shorter*!
Farrow Rib Cardigan - just *not* my cup of tea at all.
Ruched Shell - now this I like! (Though I've never understood this 'shell' word in this contacxt. something from the beach, in my book). Alpaca might be rather hot for a sleeveless pullover, but something could be Worked Out, methinks. I'd like to make it.
Gathered Pullover - love it! Really like the slightly unfinished, shrunken favourite teeshirt look it has, and the flattering detail. Yup, I'd like to make this.
Rosemary's Swing Jacket - quite nice. I'd like to see it undone, as I rarely wear things done up around the neck. how would it hang? The gleam of the silk is well shown.
Jess’s Gansey: The Gutter Gansey Revisited - I'm intrigued, but don't really like it. Interested by the history, but the actual garment not my scene, I think. Too girlified, I like the gansey/Guernsey better in its native style ( saddle shoulders, dense knitting, fitted shape anyone?) and habitat. And I *really* don't like this model in any of her pics.
So there you have it. Not that I'm opinionated!
Wednesday, 24 October 2007
Wednesday, 17 October 2007
Yarn Forward Autumn 2007
Kerrie's really done us proud this time, I think (along with her team, of course). The issue looks and feels professional and beautiful.
Lovely paperstock; great, clear and stylish design; attractive pictures; appealing patterns.
Lovely paperstock; great, clear and stylish design; attractive pictures; appealing patterns.
After a troubled year, I'm so pleased to have paid for a subscription, and really hope that the mag will now go from strength to strength.
Monday, 15 October 2007
Books
From Robynn at Purlescence:
"this is apparently a Librarything list of the most common unread books."
Bold = read, italics = started but not finished, smallest = couldn't stand.
# Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
# Anna Karenina
# Crime and punishment
# Catch-22
# One hundred years of solitude
# Wuthering Heights
# Life of Pi : a novel
# The name of the rose
# Don Quixote
# Moby Dick
# Ulysses
# Madame Bovary
# The Odyssey
# Pride and prejudice
# Jane Eyre
# A tale of two cities
# The brothers Karamazov
# Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
# War and peace
# Vanity fair
# The time traveler’s wife
# The Iliad
# Emma
# The Blind Assassin
# The kite runner
# Mrs. Dalloway
# Great expectations
# American gods : a novel
# A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
# Atlas shrugged
# Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
# Memoirs of a Geisha
# Middlesex {this one is great!}
# Quicksilver
# Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West …
# The Canterbury tales [bits of, English class]
# The historian : a novel
# A portrait of the artist as a young man
# Love in the time of cholera
# Brave new world
# The Fountainhead
# Foucault’s pendulum
# Middlemarch
# Frankenstein
# The Count of Monte Cristo
# Dracula
# A clockwork orange
# Anansi boys : a novel
# The once and future king
# The grapes of wrath
# The poisonwood Bible : a novel {another great one}
# 1984
# Angels & demons
# The inferno
# The satanic verses
# Sense and sensibility
# The picture of Dorian Gray
# Mansfield Park
# One flew over the cuckoo’s nest
# To the lighthouse
# Tess of the D’Urbervilles
# Oliver Twist {Nancy very much disappointed me! Read when I was 12}
# Gulliver’s travels
# Les misérables
# The corrections
# The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay : a novel
# The curious incident of the dog in the night-time
# Dune
# The prince
# The sound and the fury
# Angela’s ashes : a memoir
# The god of small things
# A people’s history of the United States : 1492-present
# Cryptonomicon
# Neverwhere [but it's on my shelf, awaiting its turn]
# A confederacy of dunces
# A short history of nearly everything
# Dubliners
# The unbearable lightness of being
# Beloved : a novel
# Slaughterhouse-five
# The scarlet letter
# Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
# The mists of Avalon
# Oryx and Crake : a novel
# Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
# Cloud atlas : a novel
# The confusion
# Lolita
# Persuasion
# Northanger abbey
# The catcher in the rye
# On the road
# The hunchback of Notre Dame
# Freakonomics
# Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance
# The Aeneid
# Watership Down
# Gravity’s rainbow
# In cold blood
# White teeth
# Treasure Island
# David Copperfield
# The three musketeers
# Cold mountain
# Robinson Crusoe
# The bell jar
# The secret life of bees
# Beowulf : a new verse translation
# The plague
# The Master and Margarita
# Atonement
# The handmaid’s tale
# Lady Chatterley’s lover
# Underworld
# Little Women
# A brief history of time : from the big bang to black holes
# Stardust
# Jude the obscure
# The chronicles of Narnia
# Possession : a romance
# Fast food nation : the dark side of the all-American meal
# Never let me go
# The trial
# Kafka on the shore
# Bleak House
# Sons and lovers
# Alias Grace
# The Arabian nights
# Baudolino
# Confessions
# The great Gatsby
# To kill a mockingbird
# Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
# The alchemist
# Candide, or, Optimism
# Snow falling on cedars
# Midnight in the garden of good and evil : a Savannah story {yawn}
# Midnight’s children
# White Oleander
# A passage to India
# The elegant universe : superstrings, hidden dimensions, and …
# The house of the seven gables
# The lovely bones : a novel
# Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
# The amber spyglass
# The histories# Swann’s way
# The shadow of the wind
# Fahrenheit 451
# Good omens
# Running with scissors : a memoir
# Everything is illuminated : a novel
# The divine comedy
# Paradise lost
# The English patient
# Uncle Tom’s cabin
# The Origin of Species
"this is apparently a Librarything list of the most common unread books."
Bold = read, italics = started but not finished, smallest = couldn't stand.
# Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
# Anna Karenina
# Crime and punishment
# Catch-22
# One hundred years of solitude
# Wuthering Heights
# Life of Pi : a novel
# The name of the rose
# Don Quixote
# Moby Dick
# Ulysses
# Madame Bovary
# The Odyssey
# Pride and prejudice
# Jane Eyre
# A tale of two cities
# The brothers Karamazov
# Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
# War and peace
# Vanity fair
# The time traveler’s wife
# The Iliad
# Emma
# The Blind Assassin
# The kite runner
# Mrs. Dalloway
# Great expectations
# American gods : a novel
# A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
# Atlas shrugged
# Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
# Memoirs of a Geisha
# Middlesex {this one is great!}
# Quicksilver
# Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West …
# The Canterbury tales [bits of, English class]
# The historian : a novel
# A portrait of the artist as a young man
# Love in the time of cholera
# Brave new world
# The Fountainhead
# Foucault’s pendulum
# Middlemarch
# Frankenstein
# The Count of Monte Cristo
# Dracula
# A clockwork orange
# Anansi boys : a novel
# The once and future king
# The grapes of wrath
# The poisonwood Bible : a novel {another great one}
# 1984
# Angels & demons
# The inferno
# The satanic verses
# Sense and sensibility
# The picture of Dorian Gray
# Mansfield Park
# One flew over the cuckoo’s nest
# To the lighthouse
# Tess of the D’Urbervilles
# Oliver Twist {Nancy very much disappointed me! Read when I was 12}
# Gulliver’s travels
# Les misérables
# The corrections
# The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay : a novel
# The curious incident of the dog in the night-time
# Dune
# The prince
# The sound and the fury
# Angela’s ashes : a memoir
# The god of small things
# A people’s history of the United States : 1492-present
# Cryptonomicon
# Neverwhere [but it's on my shelf, awaiting its turn]
# A confederacy of dunces
# A short history of nearly everything
# Dubliners
# The unbearable lightness of being
# Beloved : a novel
# Slaughterhouse-five
# The scarlet letter
# Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
# The mists of Avalon
# Oryx and Crake : a novel
# Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
# Cloud atlas : a novel
# The confusion
# Lolita
# Persuasion
# Northanger abbey
# The catcher in the rye
# On the road
# The hunchback of Notre Dame
# Freakonomics
# Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance
# The Aeneid
# Watership Down
# Gravity’s rainbow
# In cold blood
# White teeth
# Treasure Island
# David Copperfield
# The three musketeers
# Cold mountain
# Robinson Crusoe
# The bell jar
# The secret life of bees
# Beowulf : a new verse translation
# The plague
# The Master and Margarita
# Atonement
# The handmaid’s tale
# Lady Chatterley’s lover
# Underworld
# Little Women
# A brief history of time : from the big bang to black holes
# Stardust
# Jude the obscure
# The chronicles of Narnia
# Possession : a romance
# Fast food nation : the dark side of the all-American meal
# Never let me go
# The trial
# Kafka on the shore
# Bleak House
# Sons and lovers
# Alias Grace
# The Arabian nights
# Baudolino
# Confessions
# The great Gatsby
# To kill a mockingbird
# Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
# The alchemist
# Candide, or, Optimism
# Snow falling on cedars
# Midnight in the garden of good and evil : a Savannah story {yawn}
# Midnight’s children
# White Oleander
# A passage to India
# The elegant universe : superstrings, hidden dimensions, and …
# The house of the seven gables
# The lovely bones : a novel
# Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
# The amber spyglass
# The histories# Swann’s way
# The shadow of the wind
# Fahrenheit 451
# Good omens
# Running with scissors : a memoir
# Everything is illuminated : a novel
# The divine comedy
# Paradise lost
# The English patient
# Uncle Tom’s cabin
# The Origin of Species
Sunday, 14 October 2007
A swan is coming!
So, when I stayed with Brenda a couple of weeks ago, she taught me to spin on a drop spindle. She has been determined over the last times we have met that I should try spinning, and I do long to make that barber-pole type stuff (like pigeonroof studios does so well) that I have lusted after since getting the Twisted Sisters' sock book.
Anyway, I was pretty rubbish, but it was fun, and I made yarn! Brenda says to get some BFL, and I plan to (form Fyberspates, I expect) as it is nice and long stapled too, so fairly easy to start off with. She also said I should get a Grafton Fibers spindle as they are wonderful! Who am I to argue....
I googled a bit, and found them available from Threadbear Fiberarts Studio, a place I've heard about on lots of blogs over the last few years - and would love to visit. Bit of a long way for just a spindle. But wait! I was involved in Domesticraft's Knitterly Letter Swap way back in March of this year, and have been keeping in touch with Barb with great pleaseure ever since (she's fed my desire for Diego Rivera mural pics, among other things). And Barb was waxing lyrical about Threadbear Fiberarts Studio. And said - 'do ask if you want me to get you anything'. So I did! I asked for a Swan/ Mala spindle, for her to decide.
And she's chosen a Swan, and it's bought and posted!
(And Barb will get some KSH from here in exchange, for the Modern Quilt wrap. Perfect all round!)
Thought this pic of C doing fire poi waas appropriate for discussion of spinning!
Anyway, I was pretty rubbish, but it was fun, and I made yarn! Brenda says to get some BFL, and I plan to (form Fyberspates, I expect) as it is nice and long stapled too, so fairly easy to start off with. She also said I should get a Grafton Fibers spindle as they are wonderful! Who am I to argue....
I googled a bit, and found them available from Threadbear Fiberarts Studio, a place I've heard about on lots of blogs over the last few years - and would love to visit. Bit of a long way for just a spindle. But wait! I was involved in Domesticraft's Knitterly Letter Swap way back in March of this year, and have been keeping in touch with Barb with great pleaseure ever since (she's fed my desire for Diego Rivera mural pics, among other things). And Barb was waxing lyrical about Threadbear Fiberarts Studio. And said - 'do ask if you want me to get you anything'. So I did! I asked for a Swan/ Mala spindle, for her to decide.
And she's chosen a Swan, and it's bought and posted!
(And Barb will get some KSH from here in exchange, for the Modern Quilt wrap. Perfect all round!)
Thought this pic of C doing fire poi waas appropriate for discussion of spinning!
Secret of Chrysopolis clue 1 (and a bit)
Here's my progress so far. I was hoping to get pics of the progress of all my team, but haven't quite got round to it. Will try in the future (that's Mum with Malabrigo burgundy - actually a reddy brown; Shelley with Azul Bolita - an intense blue like blue glass; and Nanny with a blue green, can't remember which). I gather progress is rather varied - as is experience; Shelley has done lace before, and Mum's been doing quite a lot of knititng recently; I think Nanny's progress is the steepest.
I realised that I'd used ~ 75g by the time I'd done 116 rows; I've got 4 skeins, 50g each, and there are 8 clues of ~ 90 rows each. I've ordered 2 more skeins in a delayed security anxiety! (Better check with the others). I think my stole will be huge, as the original using 4 skeins should be 2 metres long! However, I'm with Anne, of Knitspot, who likes a stole she can put round her shoulders and over her legs when she's chilling in the evenings. So I don't really mind.
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