Ooooh... What a Little Snow Day Will Do...


With Apologies to Billie Holiday

...So, yeah. WoT should probably now be called KoT, because I don't seem to be writing much, just typing about knitting. I suppose that's what happens when you fill your brain with mostly two things: work and knitting. Can't write about the one, not too much to say about the other, but hey - nifty pictures!

Yesterday's snowbound progress brought me to this place:

FOUR drop-ladders

There is a terrible, transgressive thrill to knitting something and then, carefully and deliberately dropping a stitch and letting it ladder all the way down. (Yes, I need to get out more). It's something that you usually learn to avoid at all costs - seeing a stitch drop and then take its neighbor down with it: this is the stuff of knitting nightmare. This circumstance generally makes a knitter catch her breath and gently place the knitting down (usually laddering two more stitches in the process - laddering stitches are nothing if not promiscuous) and scrabble in her bag for a crochet hook to slowly and painstakingly re-loop the dropped stitches. Anyone in the room with a knitter who is going through this has probably learned a few new words and the knitter usually shaves off about a minute of life due to cessation of breathing and elevated heart rate. Also, if you're me, you get so focused on the dropped stitches that you're re-looping, you miss the fact that the tugging on the work has caused another stitch to take a leap off of the left-hand needle and start its horrifying descent into ladderville.

So this piece is all about deliberately breaking the dropped-stitch taboo.

Okay - before I get too whacko with knitting, let me distract you with a funny picture of MacIntosh in from a half-hour in the snow:

Snowballs

...not distracting enough? Okay, here's a pretty picture:

Had to do it

See? Pretty flower with snow? Ignore the knitting content down below. Nothing to see here except pretty pictures of flowers and snow.

Posted: Monday - February 13, 2006 at 07:19 AM         | |


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