Jon's Knit Blog

Venezuelan Beaver Cheese

I have said it before, and I'll say it again:

Knitting while trying to watch Monty Python is a bad idea. In fact, anything with John Cleese. I tried to both knit Rosetta and watch a few episodes of "Fawlty Towers" tonight which I had TiVoed on BBC America over the weekend (sorry if all of those should have been hyperlinks; I'm feeling sleepy and lazy.) Anyhow, it's a good thing they have commercials, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to get any knitting done. As it is, I got 7 rows done. Rosetta is now over 20 inches long! Sadly, that's nowhere near long enough, as the blankie is around 36-ish inches wide. Even though I know it's ok for one measurement to be less than 36, I have this compulsion that the height, ie, the direction in which it's knit, must be longer than the width (ie, the selvege must be longer than the cast on.) And that's going to take a number more rows and squares and madness yet.

Oh, and I almost entitled this entry "The Mayor of Intarsiaville" - because I shook Mayor Mike's hand this afternoon, and I somehow think he'd be amused to know that the hand he shook was knitting intarsia mere hours later. (And we're just not going to tell him about some of the other naughtiness that hand gets up to, now will we?)