Apr 28 2018 10 mins 6
Episode 37 - 4/27/18 – The One With No Knitting
As you may have guessed from the title this week, I have no knitting to talk about! I went to the doctor just after the last recording and I got good news and bad news. The good news: I do NOT have arthritis. The bad news? No knitting for two weeks. It has been a rather frustrating few weeks but I have not cheated, not even once. I’ve done some spindling and I taught myself to drop-spindle ply with my other hand, which helped. I’ve also picked up some old cross stitch projects, and I’ll talk about all that in Wips. Also, I should add that knitting is my stress relief so Mama’s been a little on edge the last two weeks but by some miracle I have not throttled or defenestrated any family members. They are all still alive, lol.
No episode next week because I still cannot knit.
FOs
I finished spinning my very first 2oz braid! It’s a cotton sliver in the colorway Skies Over Pittsburgh from Hipstrings and to my great surprise I ended up with a whopping 654 yards! I was guestimating I’d end up with 300-400 yards. Boy was I wrong! The first half of the plied yarn is unfortunately chock full of knots. The first single I spun was not done well – it was alternatingly over spun and underspun, then that was one of the singles I used to learn to ply with my non-dominant hand and that was a bad combination. But the second half turned out well and definitely usable.
Wips
Today while getting the car worked on I started spinning another 2oz braid of cottom from Hipstrings in the A New Beginning colorway which is one of the first colors from their new Cotton Club (highly recommend!)
Lady and the Unicorm:
The Lady and the Unicorn is the modern title given to a series of six tapestries woven in Flanders from wool and silk circa 1500. The set of 6 tapestries is on display in the Musée de Cluny in Paris
Five of the tapestries depict the five senses – taste, hearing, sight, smell, and touch. The sixth hasthe words "À mon seul désir" or "to my only desire" and the project I am working on is based on this last one.
The pattern is from Golden Kite and when it's done it will look like this:
Golden Kite is a husband and wife team from Europe who specialize in making cross stitch patterns out of works of art in the public domain. They have everything from Van Gogh to Kadinsky to Edmund Blair Leighton to the cieling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican.
