Jon's Knit Blog

Hey, This Part Is Easy

I really like the current pattern section. It's very intuitive for me, I guess. I was reading Ann Feitelson's book on Fair Isle knitting last night (if you like this style, this book is a must!), and one thing she says is that in order to be good at knitting fair isle, you have to have speed, and an important part to speed is memorizing your pattern.

Now I have a good memory, but still... a 26 stitch pattern over 40 rows long? Well, there's only one row I've truly memorized - the single color one! But seriously, by the time you've done it two or three times, it starts to get intuitive and make sense. You start to feel where the stitches need to go, and by the time you've knit 13 repeats, it seems OK to be back at the beginning in time to learn another 26 stitches.

Or maybe it was just the fact that I had today off, and spent it mostly just knitting, and sort of got into the zen of it?

Anyhow, here's where we are:

I think I got 10 rows done today. Which is 3,490 stitches. Can you imagine how big that'd be if I were using chunky yarn? That's the only drawback to knitting with small yarn. It takes so long. But you know what? I love the feel of this fabric and while it will be a warm sweater, it'll be a lot more wearable than a sweater made from a superchunky.

Well, I guess that would depend on if either of them fit anyone, that is.

Anyhow, in television news, how cool was it to watch Geena Davis take the oath of office on "Commander in Chief"? Wow, I really liked that pilot! It gave me all the warm fuzzies that "The West Wing" used to - and more! That gets a season pass on my TiVo for sure! And speaking of "The West Wing," how heartbreaking was that job interview!??!

Do any of you watch "Nip/Tuck"? A friend turned me onto it, and at this point, I almost want to kill him. The show is decidedly a guilty pleasure, and on some level I feel almost... well... gross watching it. I mean, on the last episode, they did plastic surgery on a gorilla, and the character who's one doctor's son, who it turns out was really fathered by the other doctor, finds out that his girlfriend, the love of his young life, was really a post-operative transsexual, and so, in his quest for identity, he picks up a pre-op in a bar, flips when he finds out there's "something extra" down there, and beats her up. While his mom and his grandma are getting stoned together. Now that's what I call family TV. Not.

In other, non-disgusting-TV related news, because KellyO asked to see a photo of the wrong side of Zauberflote, I took one for you:

Posted by Jon at September 29, 2005 02:14 AM