The annual fall/winter Rowan Magazine has by now become a delicious ritual. Accordingly, I craved it, forgot about it, recalled that the previews usually become available in late July, searched it out, and discovered that Rowan 50 already been released, at least in England! Laughing Hens has a good comprehensive preview. The cover is beautiful, cables [...]
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You and your autumn sweater
Posted by melaniejoya on July 27, 2011
http://motionlessbirds.wordpress.com/2011/07/27/the-usurpers/
Gift knits
Somehow I’m simultaneously making four sweaters (Darcy in grey 80% cotton/20% wool blend, which is all knitted up and has been mysteriously waiting to be seamed for about six months; Manu in varigated navy merino, which I am currently and obsessively finishing; Polina in grey-green and beige organic wool, for which I have finished the back; [...]
Posted by melaniejoya on February 10, 2011
http://motionlessbirds.wordpress.com/2011/02/10/gift-knits/
FO: Autumn accessories
Autumn, the slow creep into eighty degrees. Sleeping with the windows open, and dark when I wake up. Doing much more yoga, as it happens every autumn. The finishing of many knitted accessories. Autumn is my favorite season. The Most Girl Part of You, titled after this Amy Hempel story while not really having anything to do with [...]
Posted by melaniejoya on September 22, 2010
http://motionlessbirds.wordpress.com/2010/09/22/fo-autumn-accessories/
FO: Baby Cables and Big Ones Too
Pattern: Baby Cables and Big Ones Too, by Suvi Simola, 50 villapeikkoa. Yarn: 9 skeins of Rowan RYC Cashsoft DK. Only used a bit of the 9th. Needles: US 6 for body, US 7 for sleeves. I only used 2 different needle sizes because I didn’t have a pair of size 6 DPNs lying around, [...]
Posted by melaniejoya on July 12, 2010
http://motionlessbirds.wordpress.com/2010/07/12/fo-baby-cables-and-big-ones-too/
FO: Hanami stole
Pattern: Hanami Stole, by Melanie Gibbons, available at Pink Lemon Twist. I did an extra set of repeats at either end. Yarn: 2 skeins of Malabrigo Lace in Vermillion. I had about a third of the second skein left over. Needles: US 3 – 3.25mm I started this on Dec. 3, 2009, and finished it [...]
Posted by melaniejoya on July 7, 2010
http://motionlessbirds.wordpress.com/2010/07/07/fo-hanami-stole/
Rowan 48: be still, my heart
Colorful Stitches has a preview of the unbelievably brilliant Rowan 48. Fall/Winter issues of Rowan have an undeniable magnetic pull on me and I think it’s best to just run with it. I want to knit this Dominika Cardigan so hard it hurts. The shape would not even be that flattering on me, but I [...]
Posted by melaniejoya on June 28, 2010
http://motionlessbirds.wordpress.com/2010/06/28/rowan-48-be-still-my-heart/
Reimer’s Ranch
The limestone at Reimers Ranch is so intimately shaped by water it looks alive and full of tentacles. We went climbing there on Sunday. It had been drizzling on and off all day so we had the park virtually to ourselves! Below, the Pedernales River snaked blue-green. Little ferns are coming up for spring. We did [...]
Posted by melaniejoya on March 8, 2010
http://motionlessbirds.wordpress.com/2010/03/08/reimers-ranch/
FO: Accessories!
Carly Schnur, the designer of my book cover, wanted me to knit her a pair of fingerless gloves in exchange for her design work. I made these fantastic creatures and named them Humanimal Fingerless Mitts, after Bhanu Kapil’s book Humanimal: a project for future children, which is about Bengali wolf girls and many other things. [...]
Posted by melaniejoya on February 9, 2010
http://motionlessbirds.wordpress.com/2010/02/09/fo-accessories/
FO: Cheadle sweater
Pattern: Cheadle by Marie Wallin, from Rowan 46. Yarn: 8 skeins of Rowan Cocoon in Tundra. Needles: U.S. 10 and 10-1/2. My love affair with this sweater began simply enough, when I saw it in an advertisement for the Fall 2009 Rowan magazine. Over the days that followed, its image began to consume me, and I started looking [...]
Posted by melaniejoya on December 21, 2009
http://motionlessbirds.wordpress.com/2009/12/21/fo-cheadle-sweater/
11 noviembre
For the globetrotting knitter, there’s much legend and lore to the yarn shops of Buenos Aires, many of which occupy both sides of the street along the 800-1000 blocks of Av. Scalabrini Ortiz in southern Palermo. I had heard many stress-inducing things about the scene at these shops. Mainly that you may not touch the [...]
Posted by melaniejoya on November 11, 2009
http://motionlessbirds.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/11-noviembre/
My novella, City in the River, City in the Forest, available from Hag's Head Press
Incident at Love Canal, with Christine Shea!
