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This has been a difficult week (coming at the end of a few difficult months). It has been a time of grieving, a time of sorrow, and therefore definitely a time for knitting. For some people comfort comes when picking up that warm latte, or that foamy mug of beer, or sinking into the couch while reruns of Law and Order: SVU play, but for me, it's knitting (it probably helps that it's my intentional replacement addiction after quitting smoking). But there's a slight problem when knitting while grieving ... one tends to pay just slightly less attention than one usually ought. Unless you are garter-stitching your way along a straight scarf in a single colour with no increases or decreases, chan
Guess what? I just finished a book. (I do this frequently, as a matter of fact). But since this particular book is on the subject of knitting, I thought I'd talk about it here—a quick mini-review. It's Knitting Outside the Box by Bristol Ivy, a designer you may have encountered (on Ravelry, her most popular pattern has been posted as a project 751 times, and another has been favourited 10,220 times. If you're unused to Ravelry, a project is your own whack at a particular pattern. People can favourite your version of the pattern). When I started knitting, lo these many years ago, I imagined knitting some wonderful three-dimensional weird angular yet curving Yohji Yamamoto-like garments ...
I'm cah-razy busy right now (you heard me--a three syllable crazy, that's how busy I am!) as my next show (I write musicals, when I'm not busy knitting, guiding, blogging, reading, or doing my day job as the Most Important Institutional Researcher in the country) is about to open in 7 days. Yikes! (And if you want to attend, go to The Broadway Chorus web site for tickets. Our show is called "Déjà Vu-Doo and it's both hilarious and touching and filled with amazing music). But I wanted to say a word about stranded knitting, commonly known as Fair Isle. To be rigorously scrupulous with the truth, technically Fair Isle should be reserved for a particular subset of stranded knitting, where th