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I have an idea

this is a dangerous thing I have discovered

it means i'm about try to construct something that wont work

Despite everyone telling me I'd hate sewing, I love the fact I can find this particular thing out, much more quickly and in the pattern stage.

Its based on an arran where the pieces don't go straight up and down.

I had a picture of an Aran jumper where the pattern was not on the vertical, it wandered at angles. I can’t find the picture, I have only the vision and the beginnings of a plan.

I have something of a love/hate relationship with Arans. I hate it when people do them in cream yarn that doesn’t show the cables knitted in the wrong gauge and they droop on the hanger like so much sloughed skin. However, cables I like cables, cables in the right wool I love, twisting shoots of yarn. My cables don’t follow set patterns, they wander and repeat at will.

So I figured my arran jumper should as well, the center panel wont go up and down it lurches across me to snuggle my left shoulder, the rest of it descends in puzzle pieces each with their niche. Each ignoring the pull of cables to be anchor ropes, straight up from the floor and thinking more of plants, nets and shooting stars.

More tomorrow…
In the meantime, have a Brooklyn Tweed blog entry, which is along similar lines of what I’m aiming for, without the collaborative aspect.

Though that would be awesome also

to begin I shall talk about finishing
I’m not sure if this is nicely circular or just slightly contrary

A few weeks (read 8 or so) I decided I wanted to make another cool neck shawl. Not a granny shawl or a big lacy thing you wear over your jacket. Something more hipster, that acted like a scarf but had lots of folds and more fiddly. Fiddly to make as the shape is usually semi circular or triangular, and fiddly to wear, as there is lots of layers to arrange and tuck into the drafty gaps (though that ability is primarily why I want one).

I decided on Vertices Unite, by the ultimate hipster knitting designer, Stephen West.

I picked wool out of my stash, I plotted what to wear it with, I perused the pattern.
I went to find a project bag, and decided I needed more project bags

Admittedly there have been project bag fatalities, at least two with socks in progress have gone missing. One of these losses I am basing on not being able to find one size of a set of my nice wooden symphonie sock needles, it would seem unlikely to lose the needles without also losing the project. The other I know I took to Whitby, but when I came back, gone, lost to the sea or in a diesel flavoured haze.
This accounts for 2 project bags, another set would be £10 (I use the clear plastic tolitiries bags you get in sets of 3 on amazon). Except I already had 3 sets of 3 (less 2). Where on earth are they all??
One is at BF’s, holding his WIP.
The others are on my shelves, with projects in them
Quite a few projects…….quite a few unfinished projects
The projects below are now finished, AND I HAVENT STARTED ANYTHING, I believe this is technically called finishitis.
(the project bags are now full of proto projects, who are starting one phase of waiting in knitting)

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