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May 18, 2005
A good day to give it all away
If I ever wind up living alone again, this could well be me in a few decades; the crazy lady down the block who emerges from her house cowering from the television news cameras and clutching her giant silver dildo for dear life as Humane Society workers remove hundreds of cats and dogs from the property. Except there won't be any cages, because they will all be sleeping in my BED. All 271 of them.
I said I'd be knitting for summer, but started knitting for winter instead:
I bought several big balls of Icelandic Lopi for fifty cents each at a thrift store a while back, even though my relationship with Lopi in the past was turbulent enough for me to swear off ever using it again. It was the fifty cents a ball thing, I totally got sucked in. Last night while trying to choose what knitting to bring to a meeting that I knew would be long and I suspected would be contentious, I figured out what to do with the wool, and cast on for a child's cardigan for the Dulaan Project. While tempers rose and the meeting got sidelined again and again, I just kept knitting away, thinking about those little kids Ryan showed us pictures of, and it kept me from saying anything more than mildly bitchy all night. And I'm more than halfway done a sweet little stripey jacket that will keep somebody super warm next winter. I think I'll have enough wool left for a second, smaller sweater too, for a toddler.
And because today's theme is giving it away, I cleaned out my Paypal account and gave it to Claudia's bike ride for MS. Because my oldest, dearest friend has MS. (my oldest dearest friend with MS is also PREGNANT! Didn't I say as soon as I started knitting for babies more people would start spawning?)
I also did some work on trying to figure out the cable I want to use on Peter's sweater. It's based on this border pattern
from Folio 21 v. of the Book of Durrow. That's the page with the funny little dude wrapped in a crazy blanket. Here's my first attempt at knitting up the cables from my sketch:
It's hard to see because I used one of my less successful Kool Aid dyeing attempts to swatch with. But can you see the spirals? Whee!
Posted by jodi at May 18, 2005 01:38 PM | categories: sticks and string
Comments
Wow, that's amazing! You rock with your cables!
Posted by: Tara at May 18, 2005 02:51 PM
Your cable spirals are lovely, Jodi! I really like that.
Good luck with the Lopi pattern--I know what you mean about the yarn. It is not all bad, but it can be quite fuzzy and sheds everywhere. I like the stripe you did though, and it will be perfect for Dulaan--it is so warm.
Take care :)
Posted by: Lolly at May 18, 2005 03:47 PM
Jodi, you are awesome. Thanks so much.
Best of luck to your friend!
Posted by: claudia at May 18, 2005 04:18 PM
Your cables are truly lovely.
And after my kids move out, I will become that woman in Lancashire. I'm already well on my way with two dogs, four cats, and a parrot.
My dildo isn't nearly as fat, though. Must go shopping.
Posted by: Snowball at May 18, 2005 05:08 PM
Wow, that cabledy-cobbledy-thingamajig looks super-cool! You are very clever, lady!
Posted by: heide at May 18, 2005 07:19 PM
You got cables to swirl thats amazing.
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Posted by: Danielle at May 18, 2005 11:01 PM
Wow! That's absolutely incredible - and yes, you can see the swirls even with the kool-aid colours. Can't wait to see what the actual sweater looks like.
Thank you for the link to the Dulaan project too. Now I know how I'm going to be improving my hat making skills.
Kirsti
Posted by: Kirsti at May 19, 2005 08:35 AM