bookbindery and housekeepery:

[thanate]

I have been contemplating posting things when I'm not near the computer, and not doing so when I am. Did I mention making a raised bed two weekends ago? The squirrels keep digging up one pea at a time and then moving them over a few inches and dropping them again. This can't be good for germination...

Last weekend we spent saturday wandering the world because it was nice out and grauwulf was avoiding his homework, and discovered a new age shop in downtown Linthicum, tucked behind one of the smaller buildings of shops where it sits just about directly below the Christian/angel bookstore. We resisted buying a small coffee table which we could have adapted into a doll-sized row boat to play "Lady of Shalot" with the resins, but this is quite all right. Sunday I went to a nice doll meet in Baltimore, and completely failed to take pictures.

This week has been fairly low-key, although I finally got rid of a few packages yesterday (including the one for the swap that has been irritating me) and I'm dancing around starting the project that's on my to-do list as "Sequiney Death" (I'm still dithering over the appropriate thread choice) and actually making grauwulf more fencing shirts. Soon...

Also various profound thoughts which mainly boil down to a) people who insist that other people ought to be having children irritate me, and b) here I am making value judgements about invasive plants, and I belong to the most destructively invasive species on the planet. Sigh. And the neighbor's house may be up for sale again, which means that we're once again looking at someone coming in and cutting down all the shrubs that the birds live in. I've ordered a native shrub assortment through Fairfax County which my mother has agreed to play frontwoman on, but it'll still take a year or two before anything I plant now is big enough to be nest-ready.

Here, have some pictures of Tisquantum: (I finished his sweater, and then discovered that the silly shiny witch boots I'd gotten for Lady are long enough in the toes to fit him. So of course I've been *cough* ordering other doll boots, because one pair is never enough...)






And the close-up, in which I have rudely cut off T's face since for some reason he looked cross-eyed from this angle. Aran pattern of my devising, done in worsted "wool-ease" on size 2 needles. The shoulder seams are a bit odd and it could have used a little more neck ribbing, but on the whole I'm fairly happy with it; it is not the least bit evident that it was done in two dye lots with the cable pattern repeat simplified for the second sleeve.

Comments

[amubleu.livejournal.com]

I was going to ask if you made his sweater. I'm quite bummed now that I didn't take the opportunity to talk to you in person about it when I could have (I love talking dolly knitting). Gorgeous job! I was just talking about cables to someone recently.

If you used two different dye lots, you can not tell at all. How is knitting "wool ease" in that small of scale? It's been a few years since I've used it but it was always for personal larger projects. Fantastic choice. The stitch and cables look so clear and defined.

[thanate.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

I picked the yarn mainly because I had most of a skein in the right color on hand when I started it, but I was fairly pleased with how it turned out. I think a DK or sock weight would have worked a little better in terms of stitch width, since with only 36 sts across each side of the body it was a little interesting to design a good multi-cable pattern, but I think the weight & bulk turned out pretty well in the finished garment.