In Between Loads of Laundry…
Do you ever wish for the luxury of uninterrupted time? I do, even though I know I’m lucky that the thing I want to do (knitting) is the thing I have to do to make a living, but still, the washer buzzes, the phone rings, the bathroom needs cleaning, the dogs have to go out, it’s time to go to the doctor/vet/grocery store/bank…and I wonder what it would be like to have Help to attend to all that stuff. I’m listening to “The Help” on my iPod right now – it’s an engrossing story and beautifully read – and wondering what life was like for the upper-middle-class Southern white women of that era (1950′s and 60′s) when the child care, household chores, cooking, and all domestic tasks were taken care of by someone else. In the book, they go to Junior League meetings, swim at the country club, plan dinner parties and play bridge. I want that life!! Then I remember just how limited opportunities for women were in those days. Even though I was a pretty smart kid, everything I read or was told about women in the late 50′s and early 60′s suggested that I had three career options: to become either a secretary, a teacher, or a nurse. I would only work until I got married, then have kids and stay home and be a housewife and mother. What a career path! Thank goodness those days are GONE.
Enough of this idle musing – which has been interrupted by the dryer and the phone, by the way. (Where the heck is my ivory tower anyway?) Here’s a look at our Adult Surprise Jacket Knitalong wrapup. We had an adorable and delicious cake – made by The Well-Dressed Cake on Penn Ave:
and here most of us are, finished, or nearly so, with our jackets:
Everyone’s jacket is unique and all are really beautiful. I think everyone enjoyed the process of bringing Elizabeth Zimmerman’s design to life and figuring out how and why it works. I just loved seeing everyone’s yarn choices and how they all used color so differently.
Janice Bieber came in with another beautifully worked sweater, this time in crochet. She always is perfectly accessorized, too!
Two beautiful projects from Katie Perkins, a drape-y shawl/scarf in Hempathy – you should feel it, it’s lovely…
and a gorgeous afghan, and I’m sorry I couldn’t get the color right – it’s in a beautiful array of autumn colors of Encore, not the crayon colors that appear here:
Deb Hawk looks fabu, as usual, in a chic tank she made from Berroco’s Bonsai:
We’re adding a couple of crochet classes to the list we published last week. We’re going to have a Learn to Crochet session on October 9 and then a 2-session class to make this really cute hat in November:
I love it, and Lynne says it easy – although she always says everything is easy. I want this hat for myself, only in blue to go with this little jacket I made for myself for walking the doglets and running around in cold weather.
It’s a Knitting Pure & Simple top down pattern written for 2.5 st per inch. I squashed super-bulky Freedom Wool with a strand of worsted-weight mohair to give a really dense fabric so it would be warm. I think I can testify that it will be, since I knit it in the midst of the last (I hope) heat wave of the summer.
This might be the end of my blue phase. I’m really wanting to knit everything in deep forest green right now. We’ve gotten beautiful shades of it in Country 8-ply and Kumara and a couple other yarns – it’s calling to me!
Trish
