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Ah, seams. How we loathe them! (I know, I know, amongst you there's bound to be someone who loves to seam. I have a friend who loves to untangle tangled skeins, and another friend who, get this, knits for charity, so clearly some people will enjoy anything.) Still, on the whole, we don't like to seam. There are entire threads on Ravelry about converting seamed patterns to seamlessness, presumably because people prefer it that way. In my reading up about knitting history, it seems that seams came into vogue because sweaters could be knit in parts by different people, then assembled, so one could presumably specialize in right fronts and make a living at it. But in the olden days, sweaters we
You might think I haven't written much lately, and you'd be wrong! I wrote an entire script for a musical, hence I had less time to update my blog. But, as luck would have it, the musical has inspired this latest post. We're doing the Cinderella story, calling it The Shoe Must Go On. And I figured that if the Stepmother is so keen to hand out weird names based on proximity (she's called Cinderella because she spends so much time in the cinders), perhaps she does that to all her daughters, yielding such character names as Pine Tree Petra, Zero Interest Zinnia, and of course Dryer Lint Debbie. Good old Debbie collects dryer lint, you see, spins it, and turns it into knitwear. The moment I wrot