Proof of Life
Posted by Lanea on Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006
I am not, in point of fact, all talk.
I am mostly talk, but not all talk.
Our new refrigerator is in place, on top of newly-laid tiles. And our hero Mike came by and did some lovely finish-carpentry for us over the weekend. Ahhhhhhh. We may finish the kitchen before, you know, any of the nieces or the nephew leave for college.
And there is knitting progress. Print o’ the Wave is clearly lace. See
Not the best half-assed temporary blocking I’ve done, but you get the point. It’s the prettiest dish-towel I’ve ever made. I might even keep going until it’s long enough for, like, a big place-mat. Or an ascot. But only if she says nice things to me.
The sweater back is complete:
The left front is past the half-way point:
The yarn is from Kiparoo farm, in Maryland, which is a lovely place. It’s a hand-dyed emerald green wool mohair blend. I heart it. It’s very silky, and not at all scratchy to me.
Now, things are going to get a little scary. I’m all about honesty, you know, and not everything is pretty lace and soft sweaters. Some knitting is scary.
Take this sock, for instance. I don’t have proof, but I’m pretty sure Trekking made the yarn out of ground-up clowns:
Honestly, it’s the section right above the needles I hate. Red and orange and lime green all mashed together. I’ve knit far past this point, but I think I’m just fooling myself. I took the sock to knitting this weekend, to warn the others. And some of them are obviously deluded. Many, many seemingly sane knitters said this is a lovely colorway. And then maybe they said I was cracked. But then again, we can’t really be right. We knit with Tom. And Tom knit this.
He actually knit it quite some time ago, and he travels with it. Which I take as evidence of some very frightening pre-meditation in action. I live in fear, as should you.
Run for your lives.
Filed in knitting | 9 responses so far
Whitneyon 03 Oct 2006 at 11:33 pm 1I know a knitter who loves Trekking 100, if you decide it needs to go đ
minnieon 04 Oct 2006 at 8:09 am 2can’t sleep, clown yarn will eat me!
rachelon 04 Oct 2006 at 11:51 am 3MEMO
To: Amy
From: Rachel
Re: ground up clown sock
You’re cracked.
Okay, maybe not cracked, maybe just, um, too uptight? Okay, maybe neither. But with Trekking 100, you really can’t fixate too much on a specific color without possibly going Yellow Wallpaper mad. You need to appreciate the overall effect. You need to step back from it and look at the overall sock, not the individual colors coming off the needles one at a time. Trekking 100 requires a zen-like approach. Or knitting while watching TV so you don’t even notice the scary colors until they’re mottled up with the less scary colors and you realize that they actually look kinda nice together.
The Purloined Letteron 04 Oct 2006 at 3:19 pm 4Ha! I love the mask. I just saw something awfully similar in the American Indian museum. I’ll get the post up eventually. Thanks SO much for the picture that will animate my dreams for weeks. (OOh, gotta make one….)
KnittnLissaon 04 Oct 2006 at 9:41 pm 5I heart the sock. And it’s largely green. Go clown, go!
laneaon 05 Oct 2006 at 7:53 am 6In defense of my (admittedly crazy) self, that’s a knee sock I’m making. A regular sock might win the right to exist. But knitting a knee sock is like knitting three regular socks, particularly for we percussive dancers, with the muscular calves. To keep going would require me to continue wallowing in ground-up-clown for thousands of stitches, and then to do it all over again for the other leg. Kill me now.
Beverlyon 18 Oct 2006 at 12:14 pm 7Ground-up-Clowns…what a wonderful name for that colorway! It looks lovely on my monitor. If you still have it/still don’t want it, I’ll be more than happy to relieve you of it đ
Thornyon 23 Oct 2006 at 9:44 pm 8Hi! So glad to meet you on Saturday!
I think you must’ve gotten the same fugly batch of Trekking 100 that I did, because my pair that I’m making out of that looks /exactly/ the same. And I sat there going, “WTF is up with people, that they keep going on and on about this godawful colorway?” And also, since I’d seen pictures of it, I kept going, “Waaaahhhh! Why doesn’t mine look nice like everyone else’s does?!”
And then, about a month ago, I found another skein of Trekking 100 at my LYS and you know what? It looks completely different. Like, there’s an actual /yellow/ stripe, you can even see it in the skein. It’s not that freako mix of orange lime and yellow which you and I apparently were “lucky” enough to get. In fact, once I saw that other skein I was all, “Heeeeyyyyy, no fair!” Apparently, with Trekking 100, it’s all Let The Buyer Be Ware. Grrrr.
(Okay, though I have to say? I’m so glad I’m not the only one, because I’ve been seriously battling a weird case of Trekking Inferiority Complex. grin!)
Thornyon 23 Oct 2006 at 9:45 pm 9Hi! So glad to meet you on Saturday!
I think you must’ve gotten the same fugly batch of Trekking 100 that I did, because my pair that I’m making out of that looks /exactly/ the same. And I sat there going, “WTF is up with people, that they keep going on and on about this godawful colorway?” And also, since I’d seen pictures of it, I kept going, “Waaaahhhh! Why doesn’t mine look nice like everyone else’s does?!”
And then, about a month ago, I found another skein of Trekking 100 at my LYS and you know what? It looks completely different. Like, there’s an actual /yellow/ stripe, you can even see it in the skein. It’s not that freako mix of orange lime and yellow which you and I apparently were “lucky” enough to get. In fact, once I saw that other skein I was all, “Heeeeyyyyy, no fair!” Apparently, with Trekking 100, it’s all Let The Buyer Be Ware. Grrrr.
(Okay, though I have to say? I’m so glad I’m not the only one, because I’ve been seriously battling a weird case of Trekking Inferiority Complex. grin!)