July 14, 2009

cn4051_shakespeare3The Tempest, Act V Scene I

[here PROSPERO discovers FERDINAND and MIRANDA playing at chess.]

Plato.

July 9, 2009

Picture 1Opening the July Anthropologie catalogue this afternoon, I saw, page 4, this quote:

Is is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form. – Hans Hofmann

and immediately thought of what we’ve been reading in Greek:

εστω γαρ δη ημιν τουτο σχημα, ο μονον τυγχανει χροματι αει επομενον.

for, indeed, let this be shape, as far as we are concerned: that which alone happens to accompany color.

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plot plot plot.

IMG_0737Pattern: Gentleman’s Shooting Stockings, from Nancy Bush’s Knitting Vintage Socks.

Needles: sz. 0 Takumi DPN’s

# of Needles Broken While Making These: at least 3

Yarn: Knit Picks Palette in Black

Story: Eating lunch with a group of people last fall, I was knitting– Joe complimented me on the socks I was working on, and then proposed a trade– if I made him a pair of socks, he’d make me a couple of mugs. I agreed. Started a pair for him– but ended up giving them to Zac for Christmas– and thus have only just finished these now.

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IMG_0741Pattern: none at all

Needles: sz. 3 addi turbos

Yarn: Elann Silken Kydd (if yarns had stripper names, this would be one of them)

Story: A couple of years ago, I started a double-stranded mohair sweater, ice blue, covered in tiny cables. I don’t know why I ever thought it was a good idea. The sweater lived in a box until today– when it was cast off, ends sewn in, and dubbed a neckwarmer (all it needs is some kind of a pin). I think I’ll like it.

This was Mother’s Day:

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Pattern: Seascape Stole

Needles: sz. 5 addi turbos

Yarn: Jäbogarn, this beautiful swedish laceweight wool

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And this was Father’s Day

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Pattern: Latvian Vest

Needles: Sz. 1 and sz. 3 addi turbos, sz. 1 Takumi DPN’s for the ribbing

Yarn: Knit Picks Palette in Navy & various other blues; Lang Jawoll leftovers from last summer

I think both of these are beautiful.

désolé

May 15, 2009

In French, to say, sorry, you say, désolé.

“I feel so badly about what just happened that I am bereft of company” seems a little extreme, though.

From Tunis Sheep.

May 13, 2009

Got this wool on Thursday, from friends of Zac’s family; started spinning it immediately.

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“pergunt inde Collatiam, ubi Lucretiam…nocte sera deditam lanae inter lucubrantes ancillas in medio aedium sedentem inveniunt.”

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They then continued to Collatia, where they found Lucretia…spinning wool, sitting in the middle of the house, among her maidens, working by lamplight, late in the night.

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Livy, The History of Rome, Book I.57

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even better with laughing cow.

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Wool: Knit Picks Wool of the Andes in Coal; Knit Picks Palette in Cream (held doubled)

Needles: sz.7 straights

slightly larger than the other (obviously), because this is intended for wintertime.

I hope it is not too drab.

Note the spinning in the background!

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maybe a slight rip-off of the original– used cheap cheddar instead of the havarti & mozerella called for.

intended use: picnic.