Here it is March and my daffodils look like they’re ready to pop and the few little crocuses in the backyard are blooming. Spring is trying but March is a treacherous month and not to be trusted. For example, it was almost 80º Saturday and today we’ve had flurries and will barely get above freezing.
It’s a good day to stay inside and bake bread and knit. I make a kind of ‘slow rise’ loaf that takes about 4.5 hours but most of that time is hands-off. So in the meantime, while I’m waiting, I’m knitting. (I tried sourdough bread making over the summer along with some so-called artisanal bread and finally realized after a few months that I didn’t much like either one.)
Fell into a rabbit hole of mosaic crochet a while back. It was fun and easy and I watched many videos about it by a jolly Icelandic woman named Tinna Thorudottir Thorvaldar. I even bought a pattern from her off of Ravelry. Now, I have been crocheting longer than I have been knitting, which is a long time, and I have never had any issues with my tendons or had pain of any sort from crocheting. This time, though, after a few weeks my right arm was so sore that I had to stop. I bought some of that K Tape (kinesiology tape) and that helped. I also cut the toes off of some compression stockings and wore that for a couple of weeks. My arm seems healed now, for the most part, but I am sad that I cannot pursue the mosaic crochet.
However, there is such a thing as Mosaic Knitting! I made a scarf as a first project and it turned out reasonably well. I made it to particularly go with this sweater coat.
I bought Barbara G. Walker’s book on the subject. (And what an interesting person she must have been.)
I have now embarked on the Nightshift Shawl by Andrea Mowry. Again, I bought a stand-alone pattern which is something I have seldom done in the past, but I don’t feel I have the time anymore to figure shit out, re-invent the wheel, and so I will now happily pay someone else who has already done the work.
The shawl calls for worsted weight yarn in 6 or 8 colors, but I had the idea to use 2 sock weight, self-striping yarns. It will take me forever, I am sure, but it is interesting to see how the different yarns interact. Banana for scale.
I am still knitting socks for Sweetie. This is Berroco Sox yarn.
2 comments:
Loving that scarf - it's perfect with the jacket. That's one Barbara Walker book I don't have - and, fwiw, I got lucky enough to meet her and hear her talk at Sock Summit lo these many years ago, and she really did seem like an interesting person...
Thank you for the compliment, Jocelyn.
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