This is going to be a very knit-heavy week of posting. The needles have just been very busy. Its so nice to see the actual physical results of your labor, just piling up in your lap. All of the baby snuggles and goodness are a good sign of effort going rewarded, too. It is just remarkable the difference in the way Pan and I interact now. Its not like we had no bond before, but it was really, really rough for a while there after my surgery. He had to wean, cold turkey, and there were several weeks there where I couldn't pick him up, couldn't hold him. But we're making up for lost time.
Oh man, I totally didn't see this post going there. Back to the knitting...
I know that not everyone who reads this blog is a knitter, so this may not quite click for you, but to all my knittahs out there who can feel it, have you used the tubular cast-on? I think I am in love. I usually am annoyed by patterns that call for special fancy cast-on methods that I have to learn before I can get started -- but this one is different. Its so beautiful. And stretchy. And you get to CUT YOUR KNITTING UP for this big reveal of a very tidy-looking edge. I want to use this cast-on method for everything. Which means I can now only knit things that move directly into 1x1 ribbing after casting-on.
This yarn is called "Mansfield's Garden Party" (which is the best name ever and this yarn totally lives up to it. I read Mansfield for the first time in a performance studies class in college and just fell in love. My professor wore oversized sunglasses and silk scarves to class and had this divine old-school manner of gushing over literature. I've been wanting to do an performance adaptation of the story ever since reading it, and now I kind of sort of am?). It will be joining the "Vintage Frame" (from the September shipment of Magnolia Society) photographed above very soon to make a little capped-sleeve sweater as a Christmas gifty (that is a ravelry link, so if the recipient is reading, she can read no further! ha!).
This post went every which way, didn't it? But really it was about knitting. And works in progress. Tomorrow, I think, will bring another knitting post, this time one of the finished object kind.
Oh yes I did finish a project.
+Chelsea
