Knitting, the cure for midterms
It’s midpoint in the quarter at Drexel. I’m just beginning to get freaked out over all the assignments that have to be turned in over the next couple of weeks. So, naturally, it’s time to obsess over future knitting projects!
Earlier this fall I decided that this year, I would manage to knit a sweater during cold-weather season. There followed much looking for patterns, much philosophical consideration of the merits of cardigans and pullovers, and much scouring the web for creative inspiration. Eventually I decided that the Next Big Project should be 1) fitted, not boxy; 2) not insanely complicated, but not plain-vanilla either; and 3) cabled, if at all possible. Eventually serendipity and Google (or possibly del.icio.us) led me to this very cool cable-edged sweater. I figure if I blog about it at the outset, I’ll be more likely to follow through and actually knit it. Now, to find the yarn.
Speaking of cables: I’ve been intermittently following the news about the (by all reports) depressingly altered film adaptation of Susan Cooper’s The Dark Is Rising. And amid remembering how much I loved that book when I was twelve, and shuddering at the thought the disappearance of so much of what I loved about it, it occurred to me that one could probably design a cable pattern to look like the six Signs (a circle quartered by a cross, repeated six times). Maybe when I’ve knitted enough sweaters to design my own patterns, I’ll try it. But only well after the movie buzz has faded into oblivion.
[Update: Woe! I went to my local knitting store and found a wonderful yarn (luxurious but not bank-breaking, subtly variegated, with a really lovely texture), in a color like winter twilight. Did they have any more of that color, I asked. They checked, and no: they only had four balls of it left, and a bit of web searching revealed that the yarn in question has been discontinued. I may just have go with brown or dark blue instead.]
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