Fand’s Stole
Posted by Lanea on Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
I’ve been so quiet about my knitting over the last several months because I’ve been working on some new patterns for publication. The first, Fand’s Stole, is now available through Spirit Trail Fiberworks.
It’s a very quick, simple knit, designed to show off Jen’s wonderful silk and wilk/wool yarns. I made the first one from leftover Spirit Trail silk yarns our friend Rosi put on the swap table at the Knitters Review retreat a couple of years ago. I was wearing it while working in the Spirit Trail booth at Rhinebeck and a few people asked Jen for the pattern. So I started over, pen in hand, with a different, gorgeous batch of yarns.
As simple as the pattern is, I have enough yarn on hand to make another one, and I bet I’ll do it soon. I had a hard time handing this shop-sample off to Jen, and I worry that someone is going to fall too desperately in love with the original, which I wear a few times a week.
For you mythology buffs, Fand (pronounced “Fahnd”) was the wife of Manannán mac Lir, the Irish God of the Sea. He had a magical Cloak of Mists, which he could use to hide things, or change perceptions, or any number of other wonders. When Fand fell in love with Cú Chulainn, Manannánwas only able to reclaim his wife by waving his cloak of wonders between the lovers so they would be forever parted.
Filed in blather,Celtic,knitting | 7 responses so far
gayleon 11 Mar 2009 at 5:22 am 1Hmmm… Have you noticed how possessive the gods tend to be?
I can easily imagine this stole as Manannán’s cloak, with its ripples of water and mist. Very nice!
Erinaon 11 Mar 2009 at 5:26 am 2How long until your Etsy shopped is filled with goodies like this for those of us poor souls who cannot knit?
Laneaon 11 Mar 2009 at 7:36 am 3Those Gods, they are possessive. Though, in Manannán’s defense, Fand had already decided to stop pursuing Cú Chulainn, so her husband was doing her and CC’s wife Emer a favor. I think they all behaved very well, as compared to some of the snits the Greeks got into . .. .
Erina, is there something you have in mind? I generally have bags in the Etsy shop, but I do naturally tend towards knitterly (and spinsterly) designs. I’ve caught several of my bags out in the wild without yarn in them though, so I know it can be done.
Jinannon 11 Mar 2009 at 9:38 am 4Wahoo! Congrats on Fand’s Stole! I’m definitely going to buy one for me….and maybe another for a friend of mine in Michigan that randomly sends me cool patterns when she finds them while on a shopping tour!
Rachelon 11 Mar 2009 at 7:18 pm 5Very nice. I love the stormy sea palette.
marfaon 12 Mar 2009 at 8:23 am 6Sweet Lanea,
It is beautiful & I cannot wait to buy your pattern from STF!
XOXO
minnieon 12 Mar 2009 at 10:54 am 7I LOVE YOU! even when you’re not talking about books, you inspire me to find them. Red Branch, here I come