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peaceable liberal peaceable liberal thursday february 28 2019 the recurring persian dream about two and a half years ago i found and fell in love with the persian dreams pattern wildjen s persian dreams on ravelry here that one is the one that really knocked me on my ass i could not resist it it remains the most beautiful piece of knitting i have ever seen a month later i had a come to jesus with myself and decided i was crazy enough to knit this but not crazy enough to make all the color changes called for by the pattern solution self striping yarn left from my felici obsession the amount remaining from knitting a pair of socks was enough to make one hexagon two and a half months later i was on block 6 of 24 and had redevoted myself to it two years later block 7 wasn t even close to being finished you know what s coming depth year mine ravelled here yesterday i finished block 7 it took me the entire portion of the non eating part of today s lunch break to get here i didn t have a crochet hook so i had to learn a new circular cast on in case you ever find yourself in a similar predicament and let s be honest why would you i recommend this video even if i didn t have the cast on delay let s be real about this project it s going to take for freaking ever there are 24 blocks all of those blocks have live edges 288 stitches of live edges that will be kitchner stitched to adjacent blocks i ve thought about the best way to do this without plunging into the pit of despair i thought about blocking the hexagons when i have a third of them done and grafting those eight together maybe breaking up the project into smaller bits would be helpful i could try to convince myself that things unfold as they should and trust that each hexagon was created at the right time in the right pattern with the right yarn just take a deep breath and work in tiny bits and believe that it s going to be gorgeous at the end i miss you so much president obama so after giving this a lot of thought i ve decided there s only one path to completion here abandon any hope of completion lean into it accept that the rest of my life will be me knitting stranded colorwork with fingering weight yarn if by some miracle i get finished with that before i die the remainder of my life will be kitchnering together said pieces at the end there has to be some sort of border around the whole thing some way of dealing with the remaining live stitches lots of people have done i cord rather than the 20 row border since i will never get to the border i m not bothering to think about it if i m not enjoying knitting this then i should quit there is no reason to keep doing it in hopes of a finished product because it will never be finished here comes block 8 posted by bonnie at 11 46 am 2 comments labels crazy knitting knitting blanket monday february 18 2019 cycles february i m beginning to understand that there are cycles of thought that should be respected rather than seen as a personal shortcoming for example i used to feel badly about the obsession i would feel in february to research and order new flowers i realize now that looking at seed catalogues and planning where i could plant new things is a very good coping mechanism for the gray and brown of february it give me hope that someday soon the grass will once again green up and plants will dare to bloom this was yesterday morning i ve started a wishlist of plants i d like to buy i want to try a couple plants that didn t work at all last year lisianthus and ranunculus they re beautiful enough that i ll try again i plan to buy more dahlias even though the ones i overwintered in vermiculite in my garage didn t come back last season hope springs eternal and that s just fine by me hold on spring is coming posted by bonnie at 9 14 am no comments labels garden tuesday february 12 2019 depth year i m doing a depth year this year it s based on the idea from this blog post https www raptitude com 2017 12 go deeper not wider i ve joined a facebook group built around the idea and i ve enjoyed reading how other people are interpreting it for their own lives here s what it means for me shop the stash start with stash and search for a project to go with the yarn instead of the other way around buy no yarn except felici yarn for donated items or if very specific gift requests are made that cannot be fulfilled by stash yarn try at least a pillowcase of yumiko higuchi embroidered flowers unless it makes me miserable set the goal of embroidering the pillow and the linen picture regarding the first two goals this may come as a deep shock to you but i own a lot of yarn i know i ll give you a minute to recover better good because i work at a computer it is easy for me to take a break by looking at yarn which leads to buying yarn i m particularly weak in the face of a sale as a result i own a lot of great yarn now to knit that great yarn the way this has taken shape these past few weeks is that i ve been working on projects whose raw materials i ve owned for an uncomfortably long period of time i knew exactly what this yarn would become but i d just never done it first up mr banana foster the sock monkey mr foster sock monkey mine ravelled here knit in knit picks essential discontinued i told you it s been in the queue a long time i bought the kit for mr foster in 2012 to make for a friend the pattern seemed fussy so i didn t do it now it s done spoiler alert it was fussy he s supposed to have a robe but i decided life was too short to knit it plus a robe would hide his adorable butt flap that seems like a tragedy then there came mawata mittens you take silk sheets that are nearly translucent in their thinness stretch them out until you get something that sort of looks like yarn cut the loop and knit with it it s strange and delightful basic mitten mine ravelled here knit in frabjous fibers and wonderland yarns silk hankies spilled ink colorway next up were thrummed mittens thrums are weird and wonderful you take roving cut them into bits a few inches long and knit them between stitches the outside looks like this classic thrum mittens mine ravelled here knit in fleece artist blue leicester aran the inside looks like this the thrums are supposed to felt some with wear creating a nigh impenetrable mitten i ve already worn them hiking this winter nocturne adored both the yarn and the roving for these mittens mine mine the strange thing is that these three projects took very little time granted i can be an obsessive knitter and i knit a lot but still it left me puzzled why i had put them off for so long i m feeling motivated to clean up my ravelry queue posted by bonnie at 9 14 am no comments labels depthyear knitting knitting mittens knitting toy monday february 12 2018 change of plans i bought some mineville wool project super sock from simply socks it s available in short runs at a fantastic price and i really like knitting with it i was working on a pair of socks for andrew and i noticed that the sock seemed really dense it didn t make sense to me it was not a weird yarn it was the needles i typically use i have knit this pattern before i mentally shrugged and carried on simple skyp socks mine ravelled here knit in mineville wool project super sock winter sunrise colorway we all know how this story ends the sock was unusually dense despite good yardage i ran out of yarn a few rows before the second toe the moral of this story is that sometimes you have to change plans unexpectedly when you thought you were close to the finish of something so change plans and move on it s fine and it might even be fun posted by bonnie at 1 17 pm no comments labels knitting socks monday january 8 2018 the year the not knitting wasn t i was ready for the not knitting every january it seems that i lose the desire to knit instead i read i ve gotten used to it and it no longer scares me that i ll never want to knit again and will have gajillions of dollars in yarn that i won t use i was mentally prepared for it this year i worked to get physically prepared as well i checked out extra library books i bought an embroidery pattern i read up on british mystery series i might want to watch then this happened christmas diagonal ribs mine ravelled here knit in west yorkshire spinners signature 4 ply in 989 candy cane and then this happened plain socks mine ravelled here knit in blue moon socks that rock lightweight in wavelength and now this is happening simple skyp socks mine ravelled here knit in mineville wool project super sock in winter sunrise oh well if the not knitting comes late this year i ll still be ready posted by bonnie at 7 18 am 2 comments labels knitting knitting socks wednesday december 13 2017 the wisdom of books awhile ago i shared some quotes i d written down from tv today i d like to share some book quotes these are all from louise penny s books louise penny s character armand gamache is particularly wise this first quote is how i feel about knitting i choose to do it anyway he walked briskly to the young couple and their son and joined them as they walked to the stall old mundin had set up it was full of furniture hand made a person s choices were always revealing gamache found mundin chose to make furniture fine furniture gamache s educated eye skimmed the tables cabinets and chairs this was painstaking meticulous work all the joints dovetailed together without nails the details were beautifully inlaid the finishes smooth faultless work like this took time and patience and the young carpenter could never ever be paid what these tables chairs dressers were worth and yet old mundin chose to do it anyway the brutal telling by louise penny stupid people worried gamache they were unpredictable the hangman by louise penny gamache listened but didn t nod didn t agree or disagree he was bending much of his will to disengaging from brébeuf while still listening closely a great reckoning by louise penny it isn t just inspector gamache that s clever though yes i m in debt never was good with money and now that apparently i m not allowed to steal life is much more difficult a trick of the light by louise penny do you think he d lost his mind clara asked i think said myrna slowly that peter could afford to lose some of his mind it wouldn t necessarily be a bad thing the long way home by louise penny posted by bonnie at 6 47 am 3 comments labels books quotes tuesday december 12 2017 book quotes books these are all book quotes about books a glorious world within an already glorious world bringing a book of your own to school was a no no and not to recess either where you were supposed to be getting balls thrown at your head carrying a book was practically against the law at summer camp where downtime was for forced mass song books are how cautious kids get to experience a kind of secondhand rebellion a safe way to go off the rails years later the literary critic liesl schillinger would dub these mumblenyms words mispronounced by heavy readers who d encountered them only on the page this is every reader s catch 22 the more you read the more you realize you haven t read the more you yearn to read more the more you understand that you have in fact read nothing it wasn t until i was in my thirties that i understood it was okay and even right to read what you wanted rather than what you ought my life with bob flawed heroine keeps book of books plot ensues by pamela paul there was a universe inside every human being every bit as big as the universe outside them books were the best way nina knew apart from sometimes music to breach the barrier to connect the internal universe with the external the words acting merely as a conduit between the two worlds the bookshop on the corner a novel by jenny colgan posted by bonnie at 7 26 am 1 comment labels books quotes older posts home subscribe to posts atom followers contributors bonnie bonnie blog archive 2019 3 february 3 the recurring persian dream cycles 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