1) i am a news junkie
2) bbc has the best unbiased news coverage
3) knitting is great for calming one down during hours of war coverage
so what did you knit last night while watching the news?? (come on, own up, you did watch didnt you?)
Seaweed Stole
as i dozed on the sofa off and on all night long - with the BBC News on one of the local public tv stations - i worked on a stole designed by Alice Starmore
i hadnt worked on this in months and months - its out of her new yarn and in a gorgeous color -Clover
interestingly when i first got this pattern and yarn - last fall/winter - i had a really hard time working the pattern cause i wasnt used to intricate lace patterns - so it was very slow going - checking each row (there are 6 pattern rows each different with the first and last five stitches different from the repeating pattern of the row) as i went along
however! last night and early this morning i realized that i was starting to "read my knitting" and was memorizing the pattern for each row - at least for the row, if not remembering it after just doing one repeat on a row while checking against the card... woohoo! now i cant sit down right now and rewrite the pattern (probably should try that to really memorize it) but its going a bit faster than a year ago. i find it encouraging to see improvement like this in my personal life.
check out Alice's website
virtual yarns
its full of GORGEOUS patterns and yarns and stories about life in the hebrides isles... sounds like heaven to me! i am trying to justify a trip to scotland and the hebrides islands... anyone need some computer consulting work ?
keep knitting!
