Sorry to have been so long in connecting! Life gets in the way and then of course there is the knitting! I need to organize my time better. I can sit and knit for 4-5 hours and not notice. Then I have a ton of boring things to do… shopping, cleaning, cooking. When do women have time to blog as well as all of the other stuff? If I could knit, weave, spin and blog at the same time, I would.
I have been toying with the idea of finding and knitting family patterns. You know the ones Grandmother would write out be hand because she made it so often? Or the pamphets or books that were used. The baby “sacs” and afghans, sweaters and tablecloths. I have several of my great aunt and grandmother’s patterns and books. I am asking friends if they have such gems. Either you can scan them and email them to me or send them to me and I’ll do it and return it. Then I want to knit them and post the pictures and directions giving full credit to the woman who knit them originally and passed them on. Kind of anthropology of knitting. What do you think? I’ll do knit and crochet. I feel strongly that “women’s work” involving needlework must not be lost. It is a link with our past to touch something handmade a generation ago.
On to knitting…
I am almost finished with the Mystery Shawl 3. I had two weeks of illness and it put me behind. I am working on the wing and it goes fast. So maybe by next week I’ll be blocking it. I am excited to go to a knit in with other MS3 knitters in September. I may or maynot be finished!
I am almost finished with a pink shetland lace scarf of my own design. Just finishing up the border. I am in the mood to finish up projects so my knitting bag will be empty before fall. Can’t wait for the change in temperature here in Hot’lanta! You don’t want to know what our electric bill is. Let’s just say a 50 year old woman and triple digit heat for a month. ‘Nuf said. (Luckily I have a DH who understands how important it is to keep his wife of ice!)
I planned a beautiful llama shawl on the loom. My first experiment with plaid. It was too fragile and I had to take it off the loom. So much work to dress the loom and then to take it off again! Oh, well, lesson learned. I loved weaving with chennile and also with linen. I’m thinking of cotton for my next project.
DD is back at school and settled in. DH is back at Emory and ready to be back to a normal schedule. DD at home is still on summer break. Ah, the beauty of homeschooling. We won’t start until after Labor Day. Remember when school waited until AFTER summer to begin? Now the neighborhood schools start the second week of August. It’s a shame. And it is way too hot to be having football practice or any other outdoor practice. Not to mention the cost of keeping the schools cool. And some schools in the Atlanta area have no air conditioning this year! That is abuse! (ok, enough of that. We homeschool in order to avoid public school. Can you tell?)
My, I’m full of ranting this morning!
I am looking forward to starting the German lace knitting workshop in September. My German is terrible! Of course the last German class I had was in 1979. And my youngest worked on German 2 years ago so I have the basics, but slang and knitting terms are new. But it will be fun to learn a little more German.
Must go knit!!
