The textures (not to mention the colour ranges) that come out of plants is pretty amazing, don't you think?
Texture is something I love in knitting, though most of my choices over the past few years have been purely practical and stocking stitchy, because that's something I can do while I'm doing three other things.
Back in my late teens and 20s, I was all about Aran knitting. The thrill of getting to the row where you could cross a set of cables! And I was knitting with way bigger needles than I do now, so those rows seemed to come up a lot faster than, say, the next colour shift in a self-striping sock.
I wonder... I bet a pair of fingering-weight socks doesn't take me any longer today than a size small Aran sweater did back then. The difference is the amount of time I can/could find to focus on them.
Just now, working on my lace shawl, I'm enjoying the way increases and decreases produce a perfect leaf pattern. Symmetry: it's so amazing. And of course... it's making me want to knit another lace hat...
or an Aran hat...
or any hat...
It's been a while, after all. And hats are such a great vehicle to show off texture.
Do you ever look at a picture and want to knit it? Because that last picture there of sweet woodruff and wet flagstone - I really want to knit that.
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| Hey, does that mean I have to wait even longer? |
Sadly, no, Dancing Waters - as soon as the mail comes, all thoughts of hats will be thrown to the winds. I promise.
And for everybody else - hope you get to work on something today that you really want to knit - (and that I do too!)
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