Oh, friends, the swine flu thing has laid me low. (But not too low to start my post with an accidental iambic pentameter, I note.) I’m flattened. This is partly – even largely – because the Feaster has yet to shake the last few symptoms: he’s unusually limpetty, coughing and snotty, and sleeping like a baby … by which I mean, of course, that he’s up half the night, and hence so am I.
So it’s not too surprising that crafting activities around here have slowed to a crawl. Time to dig into the UFO files: that up there is a lace shawl in Rowan Kidsilk Haze, which I’ve been knitting since time immemorial, dammit.
If I ever knew what the pattern was called, I don’t now. It came by e-mail through a chain of friends, back in the pre-Ravelry dreamtime. I must try and trace it, in fact, because I’m uncomfortable using someone’s work without acknowledgement. I may even owe someone money, come to that.
[Edited: As evident from the comments below, this is Birch, by Sharon Miller, from Rowan 34, and it's available for free.]
It’s quite a thinky pattern, this, not really suitable for TV knitting – which is one reason it’s progressing so slowly. (Though that’s a Catch-22, because if I worked on it more often I’d eventually learn the pattern by heart, wouldn’t I?) I do like the fact that you start on the long side and work towards the point: by inclination I’m a front-loader of effort.
(The wine-glass thing looked better in my head, in case you’re wondering. There’s only so much setting up one can do in the 8-second intervals between nose-wipes and milk-feeds!)
I think the wine glass thing looks lovely.
Gorgeous!
I think it’s a Kiri or a Birch, either way via hfnuala. But I may be wrong!
If it’s starting from 299 stitches and going down, it’s a Birch. It certainly looks like one.
Oh! Now that I can see the photo properly (ie, not jagged rendition on phone), I can see when @ailbhe wants to nom it. It looks delicious! Like raspberry sorbet. Which makes the glass very suitable. Don’t want all your sorbet melting over the bench
@Ailbhe: Thank you!
@Glitzfrau and @Nuala: Yes, it seems it’s a Birch – thanks
@Mollydot: Sorbet! Yes, that’s exactly what it reminds me of. Mmmm … sorbet …
Mmmm. Nice.
(Tells you something about me that the only post I clicked on from Havi’s chicken had Lace Shawl in the title.)
Hmmm – might be time to get me some of that Kid Silk Haze I keep reading about…
@Andrew: Oh, the Kid Silk Haze is a beautiful thing. I made a pair of gloves in it a while ago – one ball made two gloves, and they were like gossamer.