A shawl for Kathleen
Wednesday, 29 October, 2008
It's quite bad form to be knitting a person's gift right in front of them, but that I was what I was doing when I went to visit Kathleen. Anyway, I figured if she didn't know it was for her, it would still be a nice surprise!
I finished it not long after getting back from Brisbane, then blocked it on the following Wednesday. Being wider than previous incarnations, it took up more floorspace which meant I had less wiggle room for my chair. And I gave up on the spray bottle and instead wet the entire thing and pressed out the water with a towel. Amazingly it dried within the day—probably because the weather was warm:
I think I do like it wider.
It was mailed off to Kathleen the following day and it reached her by the weekend. Needless to say, she liked it!
Current:
Bible: Isaiah (ESV) 28/09/2010
seen: Tropic Thunder 26/09/2010
seen: The Life of Mammals 24/09/2010
seen: What a Girl Wants 19/09/2010
seen: Jerry Maguire 19/09/2010
seen: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 06/09/2010
seen: Tomorrow Never Dies 05/09/2010
seen: Nanny McPhee 28/08/2010
read: Mercury (Hope Larson) 27/08/2010
read: Spellcheckers Vol 1 (Jamie S Rich, Nicolas Hitori de, Joelle Jones) 16/08/2010
read: Solipsistic Pop Vol 2 (Solipsistic Pop) 16/08/2010
read: Chiggers (Hope Larson) 15/08/2010
seen: Josie and the Pussycats 14/08/2010
seen: Mr & Mrs Smith 14/08/2010
seen: Step Up 2 13/08/2010
Blinks:
How to recalibrate the home button on your iPhone.
Unsolicited manuscripts accepted by Pan Macmillan with certain conditions.
Thought Balloon is a group blog in which the writers tackle a new theme every week? month? with one-page scripts. This URL is for their Phonogram ones.
How to sew a zipper on a knitted garment.
Issues organised by tale.
Online magazine that publishes fairy tales that are not reworkings of old tales.
Journal that publishes fairy tale writing.
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It’s so lovely, like something made out of spiderweb! My “string” illustration was based on a sketch I made of you knitting it (although I didn’t know it at the time).
I wonder if there’s a name for that kind of creative/artistic circularity ...