I'm still trying to stay on purpose with a knitting blog, but, man, Ravelry really is so much more useful for all this stuff: projects and I know that only Rav users will be able to use this link (yeah, I know there is a non-member way to link, but I've totally forgotten it because, well, who's not a Rav member yet these days, huh?) but really, who's reading this blog anyway?
Suffice to say, there has been much knitting, so much knitting that I seem to have given myself an injury and I really should stop knitting, but I'm making socks with stripes now, and the urge to get through "just one more stripe sequence" is car--razy and I'm knitting myself into a repetitive stress injury and am powerless to stop it.
Only thing I can say right now is, thank Sod there are only 3 episodes of Sherlock extant, or I would probably be in a sling right now
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Focus
There has been knitting lately, but no photos, and no blogging, which, these days, seem to go hand in hand. I'm a crap photographer, have a crap camera, and don't set aside time to photograph my knitting, all very much required for a knit blogger.
But there has been knitting, as I've said, and there has been pondering about knitting, and crafting in general. I've been putting a lot of thought lately into the process/product argument in crafting. I'm still not entirely sure where I fall on this spectrum, because, you see, I am more aligned with the form/function end of things. Specifically, the function side. I can't say I'm all a product knitter, or sewer, or crafter in general, because I do, deeply, enjoy the fruits of my labours. But where I tend to fall down is in the aesthetic side of things. Because I really don't, and in a fairly terminal kind of way, care about how things look on me. I care, deeply, however, about how they work on me, and about how they make me feel.
Because I am deeply, embarrassingly excited by a multi-colour, clown-vomit, elf-crap variegated sock yarn, endlessly entertained while knitting it, and shamefully happy while wearing it, I can't say that I have no aesthetic sense whatsoever. It's just not one shared by, well, almost anyone else I know. What I do spend a large amount of my crafting time thinking about (and far too little time doing, comparatively speaking) is about how the garment will work for me.
I live in a city with one of the coldest, longest winters on Earth (I'm a knitter for a reason, it's not just the soft/shiny happy of yarn shopping that draws me in, and just ask me how warm any fiber is compared to wool, I guarantee you, I know.) My quest in clothing myself by hand is not to be fashionable, though covering my nakedness is a constant goal. It's the Quest for Warm that I'm hunting here. And that's where my mind's been for the last few years. And I realize that I haven't even begun to document that here, so, while I have some warm weather to relax in for the next few months, that's what I would like to focus on. Inspired by Kate's Winter Walking Outfit, and the realization that I spend a lot of time outside in the sort of cold that most people would think deathly, while dressed in clothes that just don't quite meet the needs of a Winnipeg Winter, and that I have, amply, the skill to make the sort of clothes that would keep me warm, dry and comfortable, I have formulated a plan for a year round wardrobe for walking and cycling that is both weather and activity appropriate, and, hopefully, not horrible to look at.
First up this month, a summer/fall wrap for chilly nights. Queued up on Ravelry, or on my personal knitting list, is a few more hats, cowls, scarves and mitts for various different temperatures and needs (yes, I really do need a summer night wool tuque here in Winnipeg), and a self-designed shrug for bike riding. Details to come, hopefully photos of FO's too.
But there has been knitting, as I've said, and there has been pondering about knitting, and crafting in general. I've been putting a lot of thought lately into the process/product argument in crafting. I'm still not entirely sure where I fall on this spectrum, because, you see, I am more aligned with the form/function end of things. Specifically, the function side. I can't say I'm all a product knitter, or sewer, or crafter in general, because I do, deeply, enjoy the fruits of my labours. But where I tend to fall down is in the aesthetic side of things. Because I really don't, and in a fairly terminal kind of way, care about how things look on me. I care, deeply, however, about how they work on me, and about how they make me feel.
Because I am deeply, embarrassingly excited by a multi-colour, clown-vomit, elf-crap variegated sock yarn, endlessly entertained while knitting it, and shamefully happy while wearing it, I can't say that I have no aesthetic sense whatsoever. It's just not one shared by, well, almost anyone else I know. What I do spend a large amount of my crafting time thinking about (and far too little time doing, comparatively speaking) is about how the garment will work for me.
I live in a city with one of the coldest, longest winters on Earth (I'm a knitter for a reason, it's not just the soft/shiny happy of yarn shopping that draws me in, and just ask me how warm any fiber is compared to wool, I guarantee you, I know.) My quest in clothing myself by hand is not to be fashionable, though covering my nakedness is a constant goal. It's the Quest for Warm that I'm hunting here. And that's where my mind's been for the last few years. And I realize that I haven't even begun to document that here, so, while I have some warm weather to relax in for the next few months, that's what I would like to focus on. Inspired by Kate's Winter Walking Outfit, and the realization that I spend a lot of time outside in the sort of cold that most people would think deathly, while dressed in clothes that just don't quite meet the needs of a Winnipeg Winter, and that I have, amply, the skill to make the sort of clothes that would keep me warm, dry and comfortable, I have formulated a plan for a year round wardrobe for walking and cycling that is both weather and activity appropriate, and, hopefully, not horrible to look at.
First up this month, a summer/fall wrap for chilly nights. Queued up on Ravelry, or on my personal knitting list, is a few more hats, cowls, scarves and mitts for various different temperatures and needs (yes, I really do need a summer night wool tuque here in Winnipeg), and a self-designed shrug for bike riding. Details to come, hopefully photos of FO's too.
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