Trellis is coming along beautifully. There’s something so satisfying about all those nice flat cables that isn’t marred at all by the amount of work I still have left to do. Sleeves always startle me with how enormous they are when flat, but it should be fine, and baby clothes often need to be cuffed.
They were actually pinned down to dry, but I removed the pins and then remembered about photography.
I’m also very pleased by how relatively seamless the cables look where I’ve grafted them together at the shoulders, though the moss stitch is still clearly wrong and annoys me
I have however cleverly obscured the flaw I am drawing attention to in this picture with a bit of yarn.
I’m also one sleeve down on my teal! Debated 3/4ths vs full sleeves endlessly, but went for 3/4ths in the end. Which I think looks nice, I just hope it works out for whatever I end up wearing the sweater on top of.
Look a sleeve! More exciting than the cropping of this photo, I hope.
I would also like to spread a sad reminder to wool enthusiasts. I adore your enthusiasm about breed specific wool and I admire the amount of research that you have done into it in the last few years. But gosh, that is a LOT of tirade against people who have wool allergies and find wool itchy, a sensation you don’t actually appear to understand.
To take one person who keeps having this confusion: I have tremendous respect for Clara Parkes’ knowledge and experience with wool, but seriously, the crispness and crunch of wool is completely different from its itch factor. I’m only picking on her here because she describes these sensations in such a straightforward way that it’s very easy to see the problem, it’s an ongoing thing in this discussions, I assure you.
This is too blurry to really make the point, but we’ve all sat on shitty chair fabric, right?
But look , this is an office chair. Look at this waffle-weave, hexagonal whatever plastic fabric. It is certainly rough and crunchy and crisp and all those words that Parkes uses to talk about hardier wools, whatever its superior qualities in terms of cleanliness and heat dispersal. But it does not make me itch. My skin goes “eh, that’s not very fun” and I don’t want to wear it as clothing, but it doesn’t make me want to scratch like there’s something rubbing off on my skin.
It’s honestly quite pretty!
On the other hand, here is some beautiful fluffy mohair blend. My fingers tell me it is soft and very silky. But they also itch like the dickens when I have to knit with it.
Lecturing people that they don’t need to be swaddled in softness all the time is addressing the wrong problem. I enjoy reading about sheep! But I am getting very tired of being told that my allergy is just me not trying hard enough to understand the benefits of hard-wearing wool. I’m pretty sure the allergic aren’t the ones ruining the market. That sounds like big business, to be perfectly frank.
(Let us not even get into how delusional it sounds when people claim that mittens do not need to be something you can comfortably touch. THEY GO ON MY HANDS, THEY NEED TO NOT BE PAINFULLY ITCHY. SOMETIMES I LIKE TO USE MY HANDS FOR THINGS. Ahem.)
Wips and a tragic lament was originally published on Wrap Around Purl
