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in the quiet
new 3-ply wool in ‘sandstone’ brought to you by mountain colors yarns.
‘quiet’ taken from 6:24 of job.
a little to the left
placement is key.
in trying to make these
mountain colors hand-painted mitts
simple enough that i could work them without a pattern
(after i’d gotten through two or three pair to learn the way),
i find that just where all the bits go matters so very much.
i started with one cable.
that left a big,
awkward swath of
reverse stockinette
at the base of the thumb.
no good.
without reworking the rest,
i tried a second cable
at the base of the thumb,
but then it seemed
to rise up out of nothing and
i didn’t like it a bit.
there aren’t that many
stitches
to work with here
so i figure
every time i knit them wrong,
i’m getting closer
to the few options left
of where they
really do belong.
slow but steady wins
the race.
as fast as i choose
i don’t often feel
rushed or hurried by outside forces.
i’m pretty easy going in my days and at ease in my nights.
but on days like today, the rate of speed at which my head
is churning out new ideas
threatens
to topple me into something like stress
or nearer to chaos than i want to choose to live.
time for ice cream, a breath of prayer and a little strumming
in my prototype mountain colors glove
to set me back on course.
do the twist
any yarn can be cabled,
but not all of them do it well.
with a yarn that is too soft, you loose the crisp detail.
with a yarn too stiff, the gaps from pulling to twist the cables don’t fill in quite right.
i adore this simple cable knit up in
mountain colors hand-painted yarns’ ‘3 ply wool’
(shown in the colorway ‘sandstone’).
lots of stitch definition
and enough give to make the cabling look unforced.
today i’m still swatching,
but i feel like the yarn and i have almost
come to an agreement over what it intends to be.
more pics and the inspiration behind the process soon…
‘give’ taken from 18:36 in the psalms.
rays
in the twilight
at the window
in the final light of day
sits the mountain colors waiting
for a time when i can sit today.
all the kids are winding down now
and the evening, it is nigh.
soon the 3-ply will set with me
as we muse on
the day gone by.
‘nigh’ taken from 24:32 of matthew.
nearly wordless wednesday: freshly plucked
new 3-ply wool in ‘sandstone’ from mountain colors hand-painted yarns.