Knitting ponderings November 29, 2005 ~ 3:09 pm
Posted by Julie in : Daily Grind , trackback
Sixteen shades of grey - Lake George, NY
I have somehow managed to hurt my left wrist. The ache in the top part of it seems to have started with the bug bites that made my hand swell up like a balloon, but then again, maybe that was just the first time I really noticed it. I can never really tell you how long I’ve been feeling funky unless I have an event to connect it to - it might have been going on for some time prior to that, but I don’t actually remember. Then again, the wrist pain might have nothing to do with the bug bites. It could be knitting-related. Or typing-related. Or even sex-related. I just don’t know. However I am now wearing a brace, since that seems to help. I suppose not typing or knitting would help too, but Goddess knows I have too damn much knitting to get done between now and Christmas to stop, so a brace it will be.
Speaking of the knitting…I was thinking about all the people I know who knit the other night, and realized something truly awesome about them. Every one of those people? Their personalities are reflected in their knitting. My friend Jordana, who is the funkiest white girl I know (I mean that in a good way…she embodies what I think of when I think “female urban fashion.” While I stick to Gap and Old Navy, Jordana prefers ethnic fabrics and designs mixed with sleek leather and denim, and she carries it off.), her knitting reflects that. She made a scarf completely out of a nice bulky grey yarn, then threw in three stripes in orange at the one end. If I had knit the scarf, it would have had stripes on both sides, but not Jordana. She wears that scarf, and damned if it isn’t perfect for her.
My friend Dawn, who I taught to knit this summer, emailed me the other day. Something you have to understand about Dawn: she is the craftiest person in existence. I will look at something and think, “How cute, I need to buy this.” Dawn looks at the same object and thinks “I could make this for less.” And she’s right. You know the pink bunny pajamas Ralphie’s aunt makes him in the movie A Christmas Story? Damn made those for her boyfriend in college. She had no pattern, she just made it. She can make anything. So it came as no surprise when we were emailing about knitting, she told me she’d already done a project with cables and knitted some socks. I haven’t done cables or socks yet, and here’s Dawn, who has only been knitting since June, and she’s already done them. It was very Dawn.
Finally, the Oldest, my knitting protege, knocked my socks off the other week. She showed me a scarf she was knitting for her aunt, and she is combining two yarns to do so - a fuzzy mohair one with cotton thread running through it, and a nice blue merino. She came up with this idea by herself. No one told her that you could combine yarns, she just decided to do it. That is totally the Oldest, and it was my proudest moment as a knitter to know that I had started her down that road. I’m pathetic, really. But dammit, you should see her scarf. A work of art.
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