today, it is a knitting blog

[mylittleredgirl]

I finished the never-ending sweater of neverendingness!! I still can't believe it took this long -- it's not that complicated -- but I suppose the extended mono of doom is a valid excuse.



The gleee and relief lasted about 8 seconds, and then I went "oh, crap. *Now* what am I going to do?"

I think socks next. Or baby stuff, for all of my friends (and by "all" I mean "two") with new babies or babies-who-will-be-new-in-less-than-a-week. Maybe tomorrow I will go and buy new project goodies.

And, heh, it's actually cold enough in my house right now to warrant wearing a wool sweater. I'd yell "What the heck is up with the freaking weather!?" but I've lived in the Berkshires for a long time and am therefore not that concerned.

-- Little Red, who insists that knitting in the summer isn't weird.

Comments

Great job!

[dingc.livejournal.com]

If I tried to do that it would look like a fish net! Looks great!

Re: Great job!

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

Thanks! And fishnets were the origins of knitting, I'm told...

Re: Great job!

[dingc.livejournal.com]

First, let me just say that you're really hot in that pic! Second, I'm still a pervert! Third, this on MSEncarta:

The oldest form of knitting is crossed knitting, in which the stitches, instead of aligning vertically, are rotated a half turn. This method, also called single-needle knitting and pseudo knitting, was highly developed in the fringes of woven cloths produced in pre-Columbian Peru by the Nazca culture, which flourished from 200bc to ad600. In the Nazca work, intricate human and animal figures were created by frequent color changes. Other early examples of knitting include pieces from about ad200, found at the Dura-Europas site near the Euphrates River; sandal socks, apparently from Saudi Arabia from the mid-4th century; and some socks and other items made with the crossed-knitting technique and found in Egyptian burials, the earliest possibly dating from the 4th or 5th century bc. Knitting apparently was introduced into Europe by the Arabs, probably in the 5th century. During the Middle Ages guilds controlled the manufacture of knitted goods such as woolen caps, and the craft flourished in England and Scotland in the 14th and 15th centuries. By 1589 a machine to knit stockings had been perfected in Nottingham by the English clergyman William Lee, whose knitting frame was so excellent that few improvements were needed for 250 years. Later English developments—a ribbing device (1758), a warp-knitting machine (1775), and a circular knitting machine (19th century)—made possible the shaping of hosiery and other garments, and by the 19th century machine-knitted underclothes were common. Commercial knitting centers developed in English cities such as Nottingham and Leicester, and in the U.S. in Germantown, Pennsylvania, and other cities.

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[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

First, let me just say that you're really hot in that pic! Second, I'm still a pervert!

Er... I know you mean well, but you're scaring some of my other friends.