tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48586512146970687542024-02-19T09:33:55.261+00:00The Wronicles of RedScotScribblings on a knitting singer's life...RedScothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17742069063068371641noreply@blogger.comBlogger158125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4858651214697068754.post-82154318352924365582017-08-23T22:42:00.000+01:002017-08-23T22:42:11.524+01:00And Now For Something Completely Different<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Having, um, ‘invested' in rather a lot of self-striping yarn recently, I decided it was time for another pair of socks. Or three. I'm still rather a stickler when it comes to knitting other peoples' patterns. Or perhaps I'm overly fussy? I'm not quite sure what it is, but I'm always thinking if I'm going to knit something, why not design it myself? <br /><br />Ah, you know what it really is? I must be living up to my Scottish heritage by never handing over any hard-earned cash for something I could do myself for free! Heh!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">ni julep by yours truly size medium</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br />knit picks</b><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> </span><i style="font-size: 12.8px;">felici sock</i><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> in 'mint chip'</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>schachenmayr regia</b> <i>4-fädig 4-ply solids</i> in 'borke'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The blurb:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"We want... a shrubbery!!"</span> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Technically this pattern is a mix of my </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Traffic Island</i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> socks, and my </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Twist of Citrus</i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> socks; a little bit of feather and fan, and a little bit of chevron knitting, and was originally meant for self-striping yarn. I was going to call it something mint </span>julep-y<span style="font-family: inherit;"> as the eyelet pattern looks rather Lamiaceae-y, but on working a non-stripey version I got to thinking that it looked like a shrubbery was working up the leg!!</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Shrubberies, in fact, with a little pathway running down the middle of them!</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And a socktail was born! Or poured and knocked over, maybe!<b>*</b></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Ni Julep</i> is an easy toe-up, Fish Lips Kiss Heel sock that works with all yarn colouring from self-striping to solid!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">ni julep by yours truly size large</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br />ice yarns</b><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> </span><i style="font-size: 12.8px;">mohair magic glitz</i><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> in 'green shades brown shades'</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">From mid-calf to short socks, too!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">ni julep by yours truly size small</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br />yarning yenta</b> <i>sock</i> in 'red fraggle'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>holiday yarns</b> <i>flock sock sock</i> in 'bloody mary mix'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The sock starts at the toe, with my favourite cast-on, the <a href="https://www.thespruce.com/turkish-cast-on-for-toe-up-socks-2116374"><span style="color: black;">Turkish Cast-On for Toe-Up Socks</span></a>. You can, of course choose your own favourite cast-on should my favourite not be your favourite! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">For my small and medium versions (the Red Fraggle, and Mint Chip colourways) I chose to have a contrasting toe, heel, and in the former, cuff as well, as I like how they look with blocks of colour breaking up the stripes. My large version (Green Shades Brown Shades... hmmm, Ice Yarns may need some help in creating enticing colourways names...) is knit straight from toe to cuff using the slow(ish) colour changing yarn. Of course, you can have contrasting heels and toes for plain socks, too. Because you can!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">The pattern itself is nice and easy - a 9-row repeat that is very easy to memorise.<br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">I used the marvellous <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/fish-lips-kiss-heel"><span style="color: black;">Fish Lips Kiss</span></a> pattern for the heel. I shall extol the utter delights of this heel until I reach well past my extolation date. No, it's not a free pattern. (Why should you pay a dollar for a heel pattern? Because it is seriously up there with the best fitting heels EVER!) No, I am not affiliated with the pattern or said pattern's designer. No, I'm not telling you you can only use this heel. There are many, MANY heels of which you can choose your own favourite to use in this sock pattern. I would, however, suggest most keenly (reminder to self: do not binge-read Jane Austen when working on writing blog texts) that, if you do prefer using a different heel, to choose one that keeps to the general form. So, peasant/afterthought, or a nice short-row heel will do just the trick.</span></span><br />
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The leg, as you would expect, continues upwards with the shrubbery pattern and once you get to the start of the cuff (roughly 2 inches before the total length you prefer) you have 2 options: the first is to continue with the cuff pattern as written (as in the medium version), or switch to a simple twisted rib (where you knit one stitch through the back loop to, yup, you've guessed it, twist it, then purl one stitch) to the length of cuff you prefer. If you're working the shrubbery cuff, I'd recommend doing 2 repeats. For the twisted rib, I'd work it for 2 inches.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And to finish up, I'm a great fan of Jeny's Surprisingly Stretchy Bind Off, a lovely video tutorial of which I'll post below. It's simple, stylish, and does what it says on the tin!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />So, there it is! Ni Julep socks! And how much am I going to be asking you for this little gem? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!! NOTHING AT ALL! 'TIS FREE!! WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!<br /><br />Okay, okay. I'm calm. Of course, Ravelry (to where you will be whisked if you click the button below) don't have a FREE, WHEEEEE button, so you'll have to put up with the BUY NOW clicky effort. However, as I think you may have guessed by now, there will be no actual buying involved!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>*</b> If you don't know (AND WHY NOT????) <i>The Knights Who Say Ni</i> are fictional characters from the film 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail'. For King Arthur to pass by the Knights Who Say Ni ("ni") he is instructed to find them a shrubbery. A nice one, and not too expensive. They return with a shrubbery (the laurels of which are particularly appreciated) but instead of being let past, Arthur and his knights must find... ANOTHER SHRUBBERY, to place by the one they brought already, only slightly higher to get a two-layer effect with a little path running down the middle...</span><br />
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Actually, there are many things that can be counted as 'Einstein's Finest', but because my mind is SO not of a scientific bent there are many things that make my brain go kablooey. Still, the Theory of Relativity is something that we're taught about from an early(ish) age, even if it's just so explain why we don't fall of the earth, considering that it's spinning around at such a velocity!<br />
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<b>sirdar </b><i>heart and sole</i> in 'skippy'</td></tr>
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This is a cuff-down, gusset-heeled sock, designed with self-striping yarn in mind.*<br />
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When Albert Einstein wrote his theory of relativity in 1915, he found a new way to describe gravity. It was not a force, as Sir Isaac Newton had conjectured, but instead a consequence of the distortion of space and time, conceived together in his theory as 'space-time'. Any object distorts the fabric of space-time, and the bigger it is, the greater the effect. </blockquote>
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Such, it seems, is what happens when adding and subtracting stitches to a line of knitting, distorting the fabric and creating an effect of leaning towards decreases, and away from increases, and all sorts of timey-wimey, spacey-wacey bends and whirls... In my mind, at least!!</blockquote>
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I found a picture of something resembling this stitch pattern on Pinterest the other month. I say resembling, because the photo must have been lifted from a stitch dictionary without any instructions or charts to help a poor knitter out. I was, however, taken enough with the potential that I reverse-engineered it to create something that would cry out, cry out I tell you, to be used with self-striping yarn.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">(this used an afterthought heel, but I found it too restrictive)<br /><b>zitron </b></span><i style="font-size: 12.8px;">trekking xxl</i><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> in '538 browns'</span></td></tr>
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What I didn't like was what appeared to be the use of diagonal lines of yarn-overs to make the increases. <i>Quelle surprise</i>, I don't hear you say. Or maybe I do, but you're probably saying it in a very sarcastic manner...<br />
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I have no idea what I do wrong in attempting the humble yo. Well, the humble yo in sequences of diagonal increases throughout a piece of fabric. No matter how many tutorials I watch on YouTube, nor how much written instruction I read (which, let's face it, isn't that much for such a seemingly simple stitch) I always, always, ALWAYS end up with a series of holes that look like my little sister c.1977 has been playing with the scissors again.<br />
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So I changed the type of increase from what was probably a yarn-over to a twisted lift increase. Which sounds a tad tricky, but really it's rather simple!<br />
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M1 (make 1) = using the right-hand needle and working from back to front (which means you automatically place the stitch with the correct leg at the front) you pick up the running thread between the stitch you just worked and the next stitch on the left-hand needle, and place it on the left-hand needle as a new stitch and knit it through the back loop as a twisted stitch. The twist will ensure that you don't have a hole where you've added the new stitch. (Although, that could be quite interesting - all the M1s worked as ordinary lifted knit stitches instead of twisted. You'd end up with small eyelets, which could be very pretty. That being said, if you're working the M1s as an ordinary eyelet (a plain, untwisted M1), then you might want to go down a needle size to counter the extra stretchiness of the added yos!)<br />
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See? Nothing to be scared of!<br />
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So, we start off with our favourite cuff to hate, the twisted rib: one stitch knit through the back loop, one plain purl, repeated until Hades starts to get a little chilly. Yes, yes, I know, I chose it, I shouldn't be so disparaging, but hoo-boy, for such a beautiful stitch, it's a royal pain-in-the-behoochie to work. But we loves it, we do, so one shall endeavour to suck it up, as our American cousins are wont to say!<br />
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And so we start, and yes, it's an easy one! Huzzah!<br />
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This pattern works very well with double-pointed needles or circulars, but I recommend using a stitch marker to mark the beginning of the round, even if you're using DPNs, because the way the pattern swoops and swirls, it's quite easy to lose the beginning point! Yes, this particular PSA comes from experience!<br />
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The heel is the old favourite, an eye-of-partridge heel flap with a short-row heel turn. I was originally thinking of using my new favourite, the Fish Lips Kiss heel, here, (I actually used an afterthought heel for the small pair) but I found after the first pair of socks, that it wasn't quite roomy enough around the ankle/heel/foot hinge for the nature of the fabric; with all the contrary motion of increase versus decrease there's a little less give than it would have if it was a plain stockinette sock. The heel-flap, which can sometimes look a little less impressive than it's short-row cousins, does have one major card up its sleeve (um, leg...) in that you can add extra repeats of the 4-row heel-flap pattern to accommodate a high instep, or sturdy ankles!<br />
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Moving on to the foot, I recommend that once you're finished with the gusset decreases on the sole to continue a couple more decreases on the sole, just bringing in the width of the foot a little for a better fit, remembering, of course, to factor this into the toe decreases. (The instructions are written out on the pattern, for ease of counting - I'm all for easing the horrors of counting!)<br />
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And there you have it! And although they were a bit of work to get the pattern just right, the pattern is now just right! Huzzah!! AND available for sizes S, M, L, & XL!! And how can you get your hands (um, feet??) on this little beauty? Click <b><a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/the-theory-of-relativity"><span style="color: black;">HERE</span> </a></b>and you'll be whisked away to the pattern page on Ravelry (of which you don't need to be a member to have a jolly good gander over the thousands of patterns available!!) and once there you'll find all the information you need to download this crazy wonderfulness!! Alternatively, you can click the button below which will take you straight to the PayPal page where you'll be asked for the paltry amount of €3!<br />
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* The yarn I used is more like light fingering yarn, slightly thinner than the thicker US fingering yarn I see. Please bear that in mind when choosing your yarn!<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Many, many thanks go to my Intrepid Testers™ <span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;">dizzybea, Ibecutest, jkob, KnittingNightElf, mandi216, mpindstrup, Mysewing2, Quilter05, sgeorge24, Sharpei4Kris, taraknitterb, and TurtlesOnDown.</span></span></div>
RedScothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17742069063068371641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4858651214697068754.post-72114031242275387382017-06-24T13:11:00.003+01:002017-06-24T13:24:29.860+01:00Her Grace, Mary, Queen of Scots<div style="text-align: justify;">
...bids you come and have a gander at these...<br />
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<i>Mary, Queen of Socks</i> is a companion pattern to <i>Gloriana</i> (my socks inspired by Elizabeth I) and is another design in the series inspired by costume and clothing through the ages. The main beaded motif is an adaptation of embroidered embellishments seen on the gown of a 12- or 13-year-old Mary in a sketch by Clouet c.1555, and the cabled eyelet pattern running parallel to the main motif is a nod towards the famous six ropes of black pearls given to Mary for the occasion of her first marriage (pearls that were coveted, then owned by Elizabeth I). </blockquote>
This is a toe-up, beaded, lace, and cable sock, with a Fish Lips Kiss Heel, and comes in four sizes from small to XL.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">black version: <b>the knitting goddess</b> <i>UK 4-ply sock 75/25</i> in 'onyx'<br />
and <b>holiday yarns</b> <i>flocksock sock</i> in 'bloody mary mix'<br />
white version: <b>ice yarns</b> <i>freddo aplpaca lux</i> in 'silver white'</td></tr>
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The main pattern is worked in one colour, and for this version I chose a cream and silver yarn as a nod towards the opulent gown in the Clouet portrait, but my second version used an onyx yarn to represent the colour Mary was known to wear continuously after the death of the first husband. The chains or red that I chose at the side are a not to the (possibly apocryphal) tale that before her beheading, Mary disrobed her customary black to reveal a crimson under-gown - the colour of Catholic martyrdom.<br />
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The centrepiece of the sock design is adapted from the gold embroidery found on the 12- or 13-year-old Mary's dress in a portrait by Couet c.1555,</div>
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and is flanked by two rows of stylised pearls representing the famous six strings of black pearls given to Mary on her wedding day to Francois, dauphin of France, by Catherine de Medici. These are described as "six cordons of large pearls, strung as paternosters [...] These are for the most part like black muscades (grapes)." You can see one of these strings in a portrait after Clouet (below), and if you want to see all six worn together, check out Elizabeth I in the Armada portrait!</div>
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The cables represent something a little more sinister - bindings for captivity, and in my onyx version, showing the colour of the under-dress Mary is reported to have worn under the black satin dress she wore for her execution - crimson red, the colour of blood and Catholic martyrdom.</div>
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The sock starts at the toe (with a nice easy cast-on like the Turkish cast-on that I used) where the square motif and pearls are introduced early on:<br />
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Knowing my horrifying way with yarn-overs at the best of time, you will no doubt be very impressed with this little effort! I always try to end up working towards my own strengths, or trying to cover up my weaknesses in my own patterns, and I think not shying away from my ancient yo adversary in this instance has... helped. Well, you can see the pattern I was aiming for, at least. I call this a WIN in my book. Or at least a draw!<br />
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You have the option to add a bead at the mid-point of the cross in the square part of the main motif, but if you prefer to keep the eyelet pattern complete throughout, or only add beads to the leg of the sock, there's an option for that in the pattern.<br />
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I chose the wonderful <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/fish-lips-kiss-heel"><span style="color: black;">Fish Lips Kiss heel</span></a> again, as it just seems to work. Like I said in my <i>Shirley Temple Socks</i> post, I've never made such a well-fitting sock! You do have to pay $1 for the heel pattern, but I will continue to laud it to the heavens and say that I think it'll be the best sock-related $1 you'll ever spend!<br />
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The leg section gives a bit of lee-way regarding where you start the pattern at the back. The directions for the heel (which I can't really divulge here, per the instructions of the heel pattern's designer) is to continue after the construction with another inch or stockinette stitch before carrying on with the pattern up the back of the leg. <br />
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Well. You can see above that in the white version (above) I started the 'pearl' pattern at the first crossover immediately after the heel (on the same row as the front) but didn't start the main motif pattern until I hit the first round of the internal beaded square. In fact, I did the start of this motif in exactly the same way I started the toe, just with the correct amount of stitches either side! But how and where you start is completely up to you, as long as you're working the same round as the front!<br />
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The onyx version continued the pearl motif at the same point as the white version (at the first crossover of the 'pearl' pattern) but waited an inch to start the main motif, which I began at round 1 when I reached it at the front.<br />
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I chose to start the colour-work section at the first bind stitch after the heel, and using 2 balls of the contrasting colour, one for each side, I slowly worked the chain cable. The key is to keep the yarn taut, but not too taut. I have one tester who decided to work the entire bind section from the toe to the cuff in a contrasting colour, with a couple of changes to stitch placement on the sole (details on the link to the project <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/projects/chocolatekate/mary-socks"><span style="color: black;">HERE</span></a>), and the effect is also pretty special.<br />
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And that's pretty much it. The cuff is more of a recipe than an actual set of instructions; basically you continue the knit stitches as twisted knit stitches, the purls and yo's as purls, and the bind cable as the rest of the sock, but without the cables. Simple!<br />
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<i>p1, (ktbl, p2) x2, B3 (or k3 depending on which round you're on), p2, B3/k3, p2, ktbl, p2, ktbl, p1, ktbl x2, (p1, ktbl) x3, p1, ktbl x2.</i> <br />
and for the onyx version I stopped on round 24 and continued: <br />
<i>p1, (ktbl, p2) x2, (k3/B3, p2) x2, ktbl, p2, ktbl, (p1, ktbl) x4.</i><br />
for about an inch and half or so, binding off with a nice stretchy stitch - I used <span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53Mtbkyf5CQ"><span style="color: black;">Jeny's Suprisingly Stretchy Bind Off</span></a>, but feel free to use your favourite! Of course, you are free to stop the leg for the cuff any place you want, but if you want to keep the wider bind stitches apart, then I'd suggest stopping either between rounds 8 to 12, or rounds 20 to 24. You'll see what I mean if you buy the pattern!</span></span><br />
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And talking of buying... (see how nicely I slipped that in there??) you can, you can!! and all you need to do is click <b><a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/mary-queen-of-socks"><span style="color: black;">THIS LINK</span></a></b> which will take you to the pattern page on Ravelry (of which you don't need to be a member if you want to buy any patterns there) or you can click the link below which will take you straight to the PayPal page, where you will be asked to part with a paltry €3 (or £2.62. or $3.34 at current exchange rates, plus VAT should you live in the EU) to have the royal pattern in your grasp! AND, because I'm such a nice person, for the first long weekend of the pattern being live, you can have a euro off at check-out if you use the code 'QUEENIE'!<br />
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Go on, you know you want to!<br />
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With thanks to my Intrepid Ravelry Testers™ ChocolateKate, confiance, crochestist, KnittingNightElf, knotginaj, Mimmyknits, MooseJean, Naehall, Purple TX, renater59, sharpei4kris, SitNKnit, Skalman277, and TigerSharkknits.</div>
RedScothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17742069063068371641noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4858651214697068754.post-88989294585258641132017-04-04T23:56:00.001+01:002017-04-04T23:56:28.347+01:00On The Good Ship Woolly Sock<div style="text-align: justify;">
My goodness, but it's been a while! But in my defence I hadn't been near any sticks and string for a while, too... Yup, as defences go, that's quite the lamest you'll hear for a while, but maybe this will appease the yarn gods for a wee bit... <br />
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My first published pattern in a couple of years, may I present:</div>
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Shirley Temple Socks</div>
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<i>hand-dyed knitting wool - sock/4-ply</i> in 'pentillie'</td></tr>
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A Shirley Temple cocktail is in fact a mocktail of ginger ale, a splash of grenadine, and topped off with a maraschino cherry garnish, said to have been invented to serve to the child actress at Hollywood events... </blockquote>
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The Shirley Temple sock pattern itself is another in my theme of alcoholic drinks, but in a happy twist of fate, it also manages to blend neatly into my other theme of costumes through the ages... Bubbles from the ginger ale, plus a nod to the curls for which Shirley Temple was known!</blockquote>
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Yes! Socks! In three different sizes, so less!!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">shirley temple socks by yours truly in <b>namolio</b> <i>pure wool</i> in 'oranges'</td></tr>
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I'll be honest - these cuties began their journey back in 2013 when I first put scribbled curls to paper, but were put on the back burner when I discovered I didn't hate shawls nearly as much as I used to. :: <i>a gazillion shawls later</i> :: Not nearly as much! </div>
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Looking back, I originally envisioned these as cabled socks with no eyelets in sight (sorrynotsorry) but my naive cable brain couldn't quite get a good swirl going that didn't appear more like the end result of drunken yarn brawl instead of the innocent non-alcoholic little girl curl that I was aiming for.</div>
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Eyelets it was. And yes, it was easy enough to make the pattern in eyelets, but it took a while to get the decreases <i>just-so</i>, again just to steer away from the yarn brawl. I got there in the end, but wasn't content just to leave it *there*, I decided that this sock needed to be a mirror pattern! I think my brain was trying to make up for the fact that it had been <strike>beaten</strike> temporarily knocked-back by the dastardly cables...</div>
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A sock worked from the toe-up, incorporating cute little faux eyelet cable ginger-ale bubbles that fizz up the sides of the socks, an excellent new (for me) heel called the Fish Lips Kiss Heel, and scrolling curls that swirl all the way up from toe to cuff.</div>
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A simple cast-on, like the Turkish cast-on can be used, and only after a few rounds the first curl will twirl its way into sight. (Ed. Please note that I will always be the first to admit that eyelets and I are not the best of friends. We get along ok these days, but won't be on calling-in-the-middle-of-the-night-to-bewail-the-state-of-the-world terms for a long while yet...)<br />
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The 5-stitch bubble edge pattern is also begun in the toe section, and pretty much everything is set-up and ready to go by the beginning of the foot pattern.<br />
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The <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/fish-lips-kiss-heel"><span style="color: black;">Fish Lips Kiss Heel</span></a> by <span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.ravelry.com/designers/sox-therapist"><span style="color: black;">Sox Therapist</span></a> </span>(Ravelry links) is a revelation to me. I won't give too much away, but I've never made such a well-fitting sock before. Like I say on the pattern, I have no affiliation to the designer, but boy, I'm going to be happy I discovered this gem for a very long time! You do have to pay $1 for the heel pattern, but let my voice add to the many others who think it's a real find, and say that it'll be the best sock-related $1 you'll ever spend!<br />
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See: that heel is just poetry in yarn!<br />
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Where you finish the pattern before the heel will determine where the curls start at the back. I wanted the curl there to appear like the first one in the toe (whether it spins clockwise, or anticlockwise is also determined by where you finished before the heel, and which foot you're working on) without the connection section. It's basically the same round as you'd work on the front, but without the extra yo and decrease to the side that joins one curl up with the next one.<br />
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(Note that for my Namolio version I actually used an afterthought/peasant heel, as I didn't want to disturb the colour journey up the sock!)<br />
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So, there you have it - my tribute to a Hollywood star, and the drink named after her! And you too can make your very own tribute by clicking right <b><a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/shirley-temple-socks"><span style="color: black;">HERE</span></a></b> and you'll be whisked off to the Ravelry pattern page, complete with its own linky-loos!<br />
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<b>ice yarns</b> <i>angora design</i> in 'brown shades'<br />
<b>ice yarns</b> <i>angora premium</i> in 'ivory'</td></tr>
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A caffè latte is more than just a milky coffee, even if it is exactly that when translated from the Italian! But if you're a coffee drinker, well, it's much more that that; it's coffee heaven!</div>
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To the Italians, a caffè latte is a brew made at home for breakfast, which would be accompanied by one of their many delicious sweet pastries, but to those of us brought up more on coffee-shop coffee than home-made coffee from a <i>moka</i> pot, then, mmm-mmm, lattes are a staple for day-long caffeination!</div>
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I find watching a barista steam milk and gently pour it into an espresso, then add some latte art on the top in the form of a latte-are rosetta (or fern motif) just the right balance of relaxing viewing to counteract the caffeine shot about to hit! Plus you have the added bonus of the extra yummy tasty coffee treats you can get; just by adding flavoured syrup you can be in caramel latte heaven! Or pumpkin spice heaven! Or gingerbread latte heaven (my personal coffee cloud 9)! </div>
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So, taking my favourite hot beverage as inspiration, the <i>Caffè Latte</i> shawlette has a latte rosetta edge, with lacy, frothy steamed milk:</div>
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RedScothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17742069063068371641noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4858651214697068754.post-77410601169817259962015-01-02T21:56:00.002+00:002015-01-02T21:57:54.016+00:00Merry VATmess And A Bamboozling New Year<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Micro-sellers roasting on a gov'ment whim,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">VAT nibbling at your costs,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Yuletide tax being slapped on to skim</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Tiny profit, all is lost,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It's a profit frost that doesn't help the little man</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Make the season bright of yore,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Puny sales not worth much, down the pan,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Won't find it hard to close the store.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We know it started in '08,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Before the digi world was fixed in any state</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">To understand just how the internet</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Would let the little guys soar like a jet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ravelry's offering a simple fix,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">To help those suff'ring this snafu,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And with Loveknitting, all the boxes have ticks,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">To bring patterns to the EU...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><br />All parodies aside, it may have escaped your notice that the UK/EU in their desire to crack down on those big companies who are avoiding paying taxes in the UK (there's usually at least one story a week in the British tabloids about some massive company or other's UK tax dodge) has issued new tax laws that come in to force, oh, yesterday, to try and get them to cough up. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Why is that a subject of YOUR blog post, Red?, I hear you ask... well... It appears that all this new VAT tax shall probably achieve is the shutting down of many, many micro digital businesses... It's a long, convoluted story on a </span>subject<span style="font-family: inherit;"> that I must admit to not completely understanding enough to be able to wax lyrical, so I shall take Ravely's own code monkey, Casey's explanation:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;">You can imagine the amount of pain this will cause to micro </span><span style="text-align: justify;">businesses</span><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"> and hobby designers, and I understand that there are not just a few of which have chosen (keeping to my specialist area, knitting) to stop selling their patterns completely, or offer them all for free.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">What do you need to do? Absolutely nothing. You can buy patterns as normal, through Ravelry, through my links, and now, also through <span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.loveknitting.com/"><span style="color: black;">Loveknitting</span></a>. Depending on your location, you will either be directed to pay through the Ravelry platform, or the Loveknitting platform. (They also Lovecrochet, too!) But thanks to this new VAT, prices will change, albeit only by pennies/cents, and each country will have a separate rate. You cannot BEGIN to imagine how thankful I am for this collaboration between Loveknitting and Ravelry.</span></span></div>
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Yes indeed, this fruity little number... erm vegetally little number... has been grown from the seed of home-made wine memories of my youth. My Dad's home-made wines, that is. The fruit or vegetable mash in the big tub which would slowly make its way to demijohns with their blip-blooping airlocks and finally to their final (temporary) destination in corked bottles under the floor where it was dark and cool. It must be pointed out that Dad never actually made peapod wine, and although his raspberry, his rhubarb, and above all his parsnip wine shall forever live in our slightly hazy memories, there's not really anything sock-worthy about tipsy root vegetables.</div>
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But really, this is a raised glass to my Dad, in sock form!!</div>
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The <i>Peapod Wine Sock</i> is worked from a pea-shoot toe up, with a peapod pattern foot and leg, short-row heel, and a calyx cuff, and you can find the pattern page on Ravelry <b><a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/peapod-wine-socks"><span style="color: black;">HERE</span></a></b>. (You don't need to be a member to view the page!)</div>
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Or, should you be so inclined, you can just jump straight to buying this little gem by clicking on the button below! At only €3 ($3.94, £2.37,<span style="font-family: inherit;"> or <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">¥</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">410</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">) it's a tipsy garden delight without the weeds, or the hangover!</span></span><br />
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And The Sharks Will Come!</div>
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Oh yes, Iron Man aficionados, Whiplash is HERE!</div>
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Jennifer at <a href="http://www.holidayyarns.com/"><span style="color: black;">Holiday Yarns</span></a> approached me a few months ago to create a pattern for her 'Heroes and Villains' sock club, telling me that the villain for May was in sad need of a designer. Whiplash was mentioned and I had to say yes!<br />
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I started without knowing the colour of the yarn, but I knew that I wanted flashes of electricity to feature strongly in the design, as the Whiplash's <i>Energy Whips</i> were an enormous part of his sinister appeal and, let's face it, his ultimate evilness. <br />
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But really, Whiplash isn't Whiplash without the stolen Iron Man<i> Arc Reactor</i> technology. I decided to place this just at the intersection of the leg to the foot, surrounded by <i>Energy Whip</i> strikes!<br />
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Jennifer worked up one test herself in the Whiplash colourway - an evil concoction of armour and electricity. I suspect it cackles in an evil manner when it's being knit up. Evil and AWESOME!<br />
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You have 2 options with this pattern - the first, and more importantly the reason for its existence, can be found <a href="http://www.holidayyarns.com/sockkits.htm"><span style="color: black;"><b>HERE</b></span></a> on the Holiday Yarns Sock Kit page. Sock and yarn together in one deliciously heinous package. (I feel a 'MWAHAHAHAHAHAH' needs to be inserted here...)<br />
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You can also buy the pattern by itself for only €3.50 from my <b><a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/whiplash-socks"><span style="color: black;">pattern page on Ravelry</span></a></b> (of which you need not be a member to partake) or, if you want an even quicker fix, you can click on the link below! Simple in its villainousness! (Totally a word. That red wavy line only shows that spell-check is scared.)</div>
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RedScothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17742069063068371641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4858651214697068754.post-29532243604916049272014-02-15T09:52:00.000+00:002014-02-15T09:52:11.696+00:00Ovens and Banners and Sales, Oh My!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
<span style="text-align: start;">So, my trusty tabletop oven, a little thing of only 20 litres capacity and bought ten years ago in France, has given up the ghost. Grilled its last tuna melt. Roasted its last red pepper. The lamp inside illuminated its final casserole when there were still two zeros in the year, and the glass stopped being completely see-through after The Great Baking Disaster of '11. But it was loved. And now it is missed. (Well, I say it's missed, but it's still sitting in the kitchen because I can't bring myself to throw it away. Yet. But once it has its replacement, then I will have a teary and fond farewell.)<br /><br />And so we come to this:</span></div>
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But not everyone is enticed into partaking of a wonderful sale opportunity by mentioning ovens in the title, so I thought this could be better:</div>
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But given the dates for the sale, starting on Valentine's Day, it was perhaps a little too on the innuendo-ey side. (Which, of course, was fully intended, but still... Not everyone appreciates a little euphemism with their sales banner.)</div>
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A reference to the 'Say It With Flowers' slogan that originated with the UK flower delivery company 'Interflora', but may have been considered too obscure., even though Interflora were taken over by an American company. (Sobs.) But better safe than sorry when it comes to intelligible sales banners...</div>
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Champagne - the most decadent of alcoholic beverages, and usually so expensive to prohibit it's consumption except in the most celebratory of circumstances. <br />
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So until you can get your neck around a glass (or indeed a bowl) of the good stuff, help yourself to some free bubbly socks instead!<br />
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Champagne! And what's more decadent than a glass of champagne, but many glasses of champagne, of course!<br />
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My<i> Champagne Tower Socks</i> are made from the top down, with a short-row heel, and were inspired by watching a 'how do they do that' TV programme that included the proper (or at least a successful) method of pouring champagne down a pyramid of champagne bowls! I love the idea of champagne and froth carrying on down the sock in luxurious stripes - a gentle froth topping some over-the-top twisted rib - the epitome of luxurious ribbing in my eyes!</div>
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<b>araucania</b> <i>ranco solid </i>in 'PT485'<br />
<b>kartopu</b> <i>kristal</i> in 'white'</td></tr>
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but the options are not few - there are a good many cocktails that include champagne that could inspire you to any number of colour combinations!<br />
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I think my ultimate favourite champagne cocktail is the Black Velvet - champagne and Guinness. Delicious!</div>
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And how often do you get offered free champagne? They're just one click away... Either <b><a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/champagne-tower-socks"><span style="color: black;">HERE</span></a></b>, which goes straight to the Ravelry pattern page, or...</div>
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(It says buy now, but the button just takes you to the paypal download page, but you pay nothing!)<br />
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RedScothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17742069063068371641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4858651214697068754.post-90247385330270472712013-11-14T12:16:00.000+00:002013-11-14T22:56:26.795+00:00Composition of the Stars<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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You may have noticed from my last post that I have a new pattern up - the <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/gold-star-for-effort-or-morning-star-shawlette"><span style="color: black;"><i><b>Gold Star For Effort Scarf/Shalwette</b></i></span></a>. I have to say I'm rather pleased with it, especially as it took a very long time for it to get to its finished state. Yes, I know - a designer of such simple items is perhaps not supposed to admit to taking months to get from the original concept to the finished item. I suspect it should appear more like the apocryphal stories about Mozart and his compositional style - where we're led to believe most of his works were written as-is. No revisions, no piano score to begin with, just pure and utter symphony (for example) in full score first time. (He did just that, it must be said, for quite a few of his pieces...) </div>
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No, I'm no Mozart of the shawls, I'm afraid, but I am quite interested in reliving the journey my little shawlette took to get from its starting point (from a comment by a Ravelry friend) to its final testing.</div>
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I explained in the last post how a comment about my first shawl led eventually to the latest shawl, but I thought it would be interesting to map out the journey in photos... So here, starting from the first swatch, is a cosmically yarny tale in (mostly) picture form...</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">1.the confirmation that a chevron stitch creates an <br />excellent lower edge for a star</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhScUcmtSOpScvzQi8toZYaLmgddq3jdXrS68GZ70SulE37kpZfvF91qK0mf9APHlMEibsUc9bZEee4i8dDvHEUUh225Wl3yYGrsEs_EiuOgk4qduZDSnctY13GptQLUGH1i0ZZcrL8uXg/s1600/Gold+Star+For+Effort+009.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhScUcmtSOpScvzQi8toZYaLmgddq3jdXrS68GZ70SulE37kpZfvF91qK0mf9APHlMEibsUc9bZEee4i8dDvHEUUh225Wl3yYGrsEs_EiuOgk4qduZDSnctY13GptQLUGH1i0ZZcrL8uXg/s320/Gold+Star+For+Effort+009.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2. but the horizontal points at each side are proving <br />
a tad difficult to line up properly</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2IurjidAG42dZ355Xfof_qs-G710dWWY8mNf85hNQIM2VXQ5yctAS0kJn4eFgO4XAG5dCgy-JfR4ZXY6gvFcYlwtgpGU_DoFQx90m7QQ2_OPpu7ZxzeqnKCsIGhC061xFZiezS9vyUwo/s1600/Gold+Star+For+Effort+013.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2IurjidAG42dZ355Xfof_qs-G710dWWY8mNf85hNQIM2VXQ5yctAS0kJn4eFgO4XAG5dCgy-JfR4ZXY6gvFcYlwtgpGU_DoFQx90m7QQ2_OPpu7ZxzeqnKCsIGhC061xFZiezS9vyUwo/s320/Gold+Star+For+Effort+013.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">3. but they being to work better in a smaller form...</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGpZLnDLUQEIh99cZsoY2W7XeCQYwwsRDAhS_W96WPNlHcAV_Uj9x5Cd87QVcRJ3bVW45ZrcA1af-ahoCE-V-s7MH-ZGcproBSRyO4DLInf0Xu6hdOkBQH0A2P234GuIEH3EPlECndNdE/s1600/Gold+Star+For+Effort+016.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGpZLnDLUQEIh99cZsoY2W7XeCQYwwsRDAhS_W96WPNlHcAV_Uj9x5Cd87QVcRJ3bVW45ZrcA1af-ahoCE-V-s7MH-ZGcproBSRyO4DLInf0Xu6hdOkBQH0A2P234GuIEH3EPlECndNdE/s320/Gold+Star+For+Effort+016.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">4. but then all definition is lost through an <br />
overzealous eyelet effort</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">5. which then changes to an effort at doubling the eyelet <br />
line which leads to a different kind of messiness</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">6. as does the second effort</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">7. but eventually the spacing begins to look neater</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">8. although there are still a few odd eyelets to fix</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">9. and the placement of a the upper double line to widen</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">10. there is hope and beads</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">11. and garter stitch</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">12. and enough yarn</td></tr>
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...Little Star shawl,</div>
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Poetry. Not my forte, as is rather eloquently shown above. What I can do, however, is turn out little cosmic creations like this:</div>
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May I present the <i><b>Gold Star For Effort (or Morning Star) Shawlette</b></i>. <br />
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I was inspired to create this pattern by a friend on Ravelry who told me, after they saw my <i>Cocktail Umbrella Shawlett</i>e, that I deserved a gold star for effort. It was an innocuous comment that never-the-less took root somewhere at the back of my noggin, which was then jogged to the front after perusing some of my favourite cocktail websites for pattern inspiration, after finding mention of the Morning Star mocktail*. And the final falling in to place came when Rain of <b><a href="http://rainsews.com/"><span style="color: black;">Rain's Obsessive Stitchery</span></a></b> contacted me about a potential collaboration - her yarn, my pattern! That plus a little bit of sparkle at the points of each star, and voilà! A Star (scarf/shawlette) Is Born! (Oops - sorry Barbra!)<br />
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The <i>Gold Star for Effort (or Morning Star) Shawlette</i> is a reversible crescent scarf-shawlette, worked from the star motif edging upwards, with some beads (60 to be exact) for a bit of added (optional) bling. The body of the shawl is worked in garter stitch using short rows.<br />
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My testers and myself have used varying amounts of yarn, from 400 yards, to 453, so to be safe, I've suggested that you have at least 450 yards of your chosen yarn before you start. (The <i>Fred Sock</i> by Rain that I used for the gold version is 463 yards long in total.)<br />
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And where can you find this little gem? <b><a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/gold-star-for-effort-or-morning-star-shawlette"><span style="color: black;">HERE</span></a></b>, of course. Ravelry is again playing host and this link will take you through to the pattern page, which is available to all, not just Ravelry members. Should you wish to purchase straight away (and why not?) feel free to click on the button below.<br />
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No, really, where on earth did you get the idea of bringing together twenty excellent singers from all over Europe, then barely ever let them sing over a mezzo-piano? In fact in the whole of the two programmes (which include bombastic gems like Vivaldi's <i>Gloria</i> and Tavener's <i>Svyati)</i> you only let us sing forte twice. TWICE. </div>
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Silver-lining: I have finally found my falsetto register, something I never had as a soprano. It's a shame that it may not last the week, though. I am preparing a black armband as I type, and a short eulogy to the effects of new life lost too soon to the hypocrisies of the singing world. Or something along those lines. </div>
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I understand, I do, that as a whole we make an extraordinary pianissimo. So many people making such a tiny sound. I hear it, (just, over my heart pounding with the strain of making long, l o n g phrases with an extraordinary pianissimo) but hell's teeth, man, you're slaying our chords with quietness. Too much of a good thing, and all that. </div>
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Now, please don't get me wrong, it's actually rather exhilarating to be part of such mammoth quiet, but not, and may I be crystal clear here, not ALL THE TIME. </div>
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Silver-lining: I'm not the only one who feels this, and have been surprised, yet at the same time not surprised, to hear from most of the female singers that this will be their last project. They, too, are concerned about the damage constant pianissimo does to their voices. I thought that perhaps my last (first) project with this ensemble was an anomaly (who really asks their singers to make such teeny-tiny noises for Mozart's <i>Requiem</i> or <i>Mass in c minor</i>) but it appears to be his 'thing', his calling-card, and party-piece all rolled into one. I guess this also explains why so many of the old alto and soprano sections aren't taking part this time around...</div>
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Then we get to those singers who have stayed... Yes, some of them have voices of amazing beauty, but... some of them don't. And of the latter it appears, to me at least, that you don't want to scare them off... The loud alto who constantly sings flat when she pushes her voice, (I forgot the cantus firmus in one of the contemporary pieces: loud and louder all the way through, although the rest are pianissimo-ing their way to the end) at which the rest of us try to tune up then get a mouthful for not being together, pitch-wise, with the louder lass. And do you *really* like the way she back-chats you and tells everyone what they're doing wrong, or are you suffering in silence? A bit like us... And the tenor with the constant vibrato. Baroque, classical, or contemporary, it's there distorting harmony and, if nothing else, my sanity. Yet for these, and other mistreatments of music, you say nothing, yet demand of the rest of us complete and utter homogeny of sound. Which is effing hard when you've got a flat alto, a wobbly tenor, and other small but annoying anomolies of the perfect sound you want. </div>
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RedScothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17742069063068371641noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4858651214697068754.post-2598266296570265932013-08-10T17:45:00.002+01:002013-08-10T17:45:39.557+01:00The Luck Of The Irish<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">irish ale shawlette by yours truly<br />guinness version in <b>ice yarns</b> <i>kid mohair </i>'black'<br />and <b>rowan </b><i>kidsilk haze</i> in 'ghost'<br />green beer version in <b>yarn chef </b><i>minestrone</i> in 'spring vortex'<br />and <b>bbknits</b> <i>prima superwash merino nylon</i> in 'innocence'</span></td></tr>
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The <i>Irish Ale Shawlette</i> is a companion piece (as they say in the art world) to my <i><a href="http://redscot.blogspot.nl/2009/07/n-is-for_20.html"><span style="color: black;">Irish Ale Socks</span></a></i>. I love these socks so much that I've been thinking about making something with a similar pattern for yonks... </div>
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The stitch pattern always makes me think of settling ale, swirling, newly poured, in a pint glass, and the bubbly head at the top (or in this case, the bottom) just cries out to be made out of such a pretty (if I may say so) ruffled edge - a somewhat stylised form of the main stitch pattern. </div>
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And so this little shawl was born. Or perhaps poured...</div>
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The <i>Irish Ale Shawlette</i> is worked from the top down and knits up well in most lighter-weight yarns, as long as you finish the body of the shawl after one full repeat, as the froth is calculated to work with that specific numbers of stitches. </div>
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My Guinness version was worked in lace-weight, and the Green Beer in fingering-weight. They both look extremely tasty and the stitch pattern is well defined in both weights. Try in sport-weight, or DK for something a little more substantial! Gauge isn't important, and as long as you have enough yarn, you're guaranteed of a darling little shawl, designed to keep the Autumn (or Spring) chills from your shoulders as you partake of an Irish Ale down the pub!</div>
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And BONUS! for the first month, you can take advantage of the introductory price of €3 - this price is available until the 10th of September, after which it will go up to the normal price of €4. </div>
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Further details can be found <b><a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/irish-ale-shawlette"><span style="color: black;">HERE</span></a> </b>on the Ravelry page (available to members and non-members alike). You can also click the button below, which will take you immediately to the paypal page. </div>
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<b>madelinetosh</b> <i>tosh sock</i> in 'grapefruit'</td></tr>
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I'd like to introduce something to you that I've been working on for a while... The <i>Cocktail Umbrella Shawlette</i>. </div>
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In keeping with my main alcoholic beverages theme (yes, I am indeed that clever... or fortunate that that I have a one-track mind) this shawlette is a celebration in little shawl form of that ubiquitous little paper drink accessory you find shading all your favourite exotic cocktails. (I have to admit to liking them on non-exotic cocktails, too... I find, for example, a cocktail umbrella balanced on the top of a pint of Guinness rather endearing, in a beauty and the beast kind of way... But I digress.) </div>
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Of those non-edible garnished for your alcoholic beverage of choice, none can come higher in the estimation of all (i.e. me) than the festive cocktail umbrella. It adds fun and frivolity to the most austere of drinks (and now I'm picturing a traditional spot of sherry in an old-fashioned sherry glass, adorned with a bright paper umbrella... I digress again.) and nothing else says 'this booze is FUN' any better than this little paper firework!</div>
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The <i>Cocktail Umbrella Shawlette</i> is made from the lace edging upward, and the body of the shawl is worked using short rows to give it that classic crescent shape. Adapted from my <a href="http://redscot.blogspot.nl/2011/10/if-you-like-pina-coladas.html"><i><span style="color: black;">Piña Colada Socks</span></i></a> and initially inspired by Barbara Walker's parasol lace, this shawlette is the perfect companion to watching the sun go down whilst sipping on your favourite cocktail!</div>
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So inspired was I by this little bit of yarny engineering, that I went straight on to make another one... It took 4 days. I may or may not have been obsessed.</div>
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Considering this is my first attempt at putting a little shawl together, I have to say I'm pretty pleased with the results! You must, if you have the time, take a peek at the other versions of this shawlette you can find on the pattern page (which I'll link to in a bit) as the colours my testers have chosen to make this are truly reminiscent of cocktail umbrellas - they look so festive and happy!</div>
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And because I am so proud of this little cracker, I'm offering it for €3 ($3.87, £2.55) until the end of June 2013 to all-comers, then will put it up to the actual price of €4 ($5.16, £3.40) after the month is up! You can't say I'm not good to you! :)</div>
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You can find the Ravelry pattern page <span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/cocktail-umbrella-shawlette"><b><span style="color: black;">HERE</span></b></a></span>, or if you want to cut out the middle man, you can click on the button below which will take you straight to paypal. All mod cons here, you know!<br />
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To make this shawl you need: size 3.5.mm (US 4) and size 3.25 (US 3) circular or straight needles, 380 - 400 yards of fingering-weight yarn, strong thread or similar for lifelines (optional but recommended), and around 20 stitch markers. The size is roughly 75" wingspan by 15" depth but it depends on how rigorously and aggressively you block it. I blocked both of mine to create scallops on the top edge, but it's just as simple (if not more simple) to block it straight. I liked the added tension on the lace created by the scallops, but YMMV!</div>
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I believe it's about time a classic shot drink was immortalised in sock form, and the B-52 is perfect for the job! Basically a layered shot cocktail comprising of coffee liqueur, Irish cream liqueur, and an orange liqueur, this little devil should, when prepared properly, separate into 3 distinct layers. The <i>B-52 Sock</i> has layers, too - 3 cabled layers of stylised coffee beans, Irish knots, and orange segments running in nearly worked striped from a toe-up cast-on, up the foot and onto the leg, with an afterthought heel and round toe.<br />
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The cuff gives you two options - the first gives you a ribbed cuff that carries the pretty cabled separator up to the top, and the second is inspired by the Flaming B-52, where the top layer of the shot is ignited. (If you wanted to truly make a Flaming B-52, you could add blue to the mix, as the flame burns blue!) Both are equally suitable to be the top to such cute socks!</div>
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<b>B-51</b>: a B52 with hazlenut liqueur rather than orange liqueur.</div>
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<b>B-52 with Bomb Bay Doors</b>: A B52 with Bombay gin.</div>
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<b>B-52 in the Desert</b>, or a B-52 with a Mexican Tailgunner: a B-52 with tequila rather than Irish cream.</div>
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<b>B-52 with a Full Payload</b>: a B-52 with a 4th layer of hazelnut liqueur and a 5th layer of rum lit on fire. </div>
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<b>B-52</b>: a B52 with Sambuca rather than Irish cream.</div>
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<b>B-54</b> - a B-52 with almond liqueur in place of orange liqueur.</div>
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The music was Ferrandini's 'Il Pianto di Maria' a quite astonishing cantata (which was attributed to Handel for many years) with a lovely group of baroque musicians from Leiden. I'd been dying to get my chords around this piece since I heard it back in, oh, 1996 or 7. Back in the days when people still thought it was written by Mr Handel. I did sing it once about 8 years ago in Germany, but managed to compliment it with a horrendous cold, and just couldn't do it justice, so I was delighted to be able to suggest it as a piece to sing with the Leids Barok Ensemble for a weekend of concerts this Spring. And extra bonus, I get to take it on tour to Portugal with them this coming Summer! </div>
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But back to Amsterdam. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Reformed_Church,_Amsterdam"><span style="color: black;">The English Reformed Church</span></a> (although now officially of the Church of Scotland) can be found through a door off the street in Spui in the centre of Amsterdam. I had no idea it was there until this weekend! Through the door and down a wee passage and you come across a tiny haven of old Amsterdam. The church is one of the oldest buildings in Amsterdam, and the enclosed courtyard has buildings that you associate with the porcelain and pottery Dutch-style houses you find in any and every souvenir shop here.</div>
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Another of the hidden gems of the church is what I presume was something of a sacristy from the times when the church was of the Catholic faith, before the reformation. Even now it looks like somewhere just waiting for a lady in Dutch costume and perhaps holding a vase of flowers to come in and be painted by Vermeer, or one of his Amsterdamse contemporaries!<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Here in the Netherlands, if you add 'tje' or 'je' to the end of a word, or name, it implies it is a diminutive, and can even be a term of endearment. <i>Pietertje</i> (Peter-che), for example, is Little Peter. <i>Worteltjes (vortel-chez) </i>are little wortels, or carrots. If you call someone <i>liefje </i>(leef-ye), you call them your little love. It's basically a Germanic version of the French 'ette', and rather endearing, linguistically speaking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Why do I bring this up? Well, I've been working on a few little things recently - <i>dingetjes </i>(ding-i-chiz) - and thought it about time to introduce them to the world...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>Truitjes </i>(trou [as in ouch] chiz)<i> </i>first - little sweaters! itisalwaysraining (Elin) on Ravelry put out a call for testers for her new baby cardigan (sorry - I'm a <strike>pedant</strike> traditionalist - the pattern is called '<span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/circle-line-icelandic-yoke-sweater"><span style="color: black;">Circle Line (Iclandic Yoke Sweater)</span></a></span>', but it opens at the front and has a button closure - that's a cardigan, dammit!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Anyhoo, it looked so cute that I had to offer my services (click on the link, and you'll understand), and I figured that it would be a perfect gift for my friend M's new little boy, Baby L. I love it when a plan comes together <br /><br />The first effort (above) was slightly flawed, however, as I didn't actually read the directions properly (my, what an excellent tester you are, said no-one), and ended up with a purely stockinette cardi (instead of a stockinette cardi with garter stripes) which had a few technical failings on my part. Although </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I <i>was </i>pleased with my first ever button band, which actually turned out well, </span>I didn't quite get the stripes on the sleeves to join up properly, nor did I manage to make an invisible 'make 1', but even with these little hiccoughs, on the whole I was enchanted. <br /><br />I was so enchanted, in fact, that I decided to start a second effort, in which I'd actually follow the pattern. So I did. And it became this darling thing:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The second lot of jes are the <i>laarsjes</i> (lars-yiz), or little boots (the closest I could get to 'bootees'!).</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">My sister has a friend in the States that has just given birth to a premature baby girl. She is a much-longed-for little body, and although a preemie, is doing very well indeed. DS asked if I'd make some booties for the new little human, and who was I to say no, especially as all the patterns seem to be equipped with an added aw-cute factor!</span><br /><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">... <br /><br />Okay, what I really mean is that all my patterns have 25% (see what I did there?!) off from now until after the second lustra of February! Okay, I'm getting a little too taken with the whole lustrum thing... So, from NOW until the 14th of February all my patterns will have 25% off. No special codes or coupons needed!<br /> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I thought I'd start the new year with an actual finished object! Yes indeedy - I'm a-hurrying with the old knitting this year because... well, because I've joined a 13 items for 2013 type thingy on Ravelry. <span style="font-size: small;">A</span> glutton for punishment, I hear you ask. It appears <span style="font-size: small;">so...</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I joined, perhaps in a state of optimism, a small thread on Ravelry dedicated to finishing 12 knitted items in 2012. Pff, thought, I (optimistically) 12 finished items in 2012? A piece of p*ss, as they say. 12 months later, (almost) and I have barely scraped through... I am in hope of finishing a 13th item, but boy, I'm cutting things fine. I'm aiming for Christmas for this 13th item, though, so I'm perhaps not cutting it fine for 2012. Unless, of course, 2012 ends on Friday. Maybe I'll have the item blocked by then. It would be a shame to go out with unblocked items lying around. What would extra-terrestrial archeologists of the future think of us, when they find caches of unfinished items of the knitted sort, languishing on bent and battered (and by then, ancient) needles. That the the human race never finished anything? That we lived by a code of ooh-shininess? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">But, they are done. Huzzah. And they're not 'just' socks. No-hoh. There are 3 - count them - THREE shawls in this. (Meh, okay, so they're shawlettes, but there's still an astonishing amount of stitching going on in them.) Maybe even 4, if you count the neck-shoulder warmer I finished last week. Them's a lot of knitting, eyellhavy<span style="font-size: small;">o<span style="font-size: small;">o</span></span>no. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">From the to<span style="font-size: small;">p, we have Dellezig<span style="font-size: small;">, which is basically a zigzag neck/shoulder warmer with a ribbed neck, b<span style="font-size: small;">y DROPS designs. I'm not going to link to the pattern, because I <span style="font-size: small;">find it ridiculously badly written. The item it<span style="font-size: small;">self i<span style="font-size: small;">s pretty<span style="font-size: small;">, though, and should do a fine j<span style="font-size: small;">o<span style="font-size: small;">b of keeping my Mum nice and warm</span></span>! I used <b>Eden Cottage Yarns</b> 'Fantasia' in <i>Delle</i>.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Oblique and <span style="font-size: small;">Acute socks (m<span style="font-size: small;">ine again) <span style="font-size: small;">are close behin<span style="font-size: small;">d the Hippies. <span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/oblique-socks"><span style="color: black;">Oblique</span></a></span> <span style="font-size: small;">uses <b>Munchkin Knitworks</b> 'String of Pe<span style="font-size: small;">a<span style="font-size: small;">rls Plus' in <i>Hodgeberry stain</i>, and the <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/acute-socks"><span style="color: black;">Acute</span></a> socks use <b>King Cole</b> 'Riot' in <i>Riot</i>.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">My sister gave me the yarn for the next project. She wanted socks. Who was I to not indulge this adorable trait? I made a mistake choosing the pattern, though - <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/kalajoki"><span style="color: black;">Kalajoki</span></a> - it was fiddly to make over 3 needles, especially considering it was a DK pattern. I ended up changing the toe structure to something that didn't break my fingers. The yarn is <b>Stylecraft </b><span style="font-size: small;">'</span>Life DK' in <i>Honey</i>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It sounds fowl (heh) but legend has it the Thanksgiving '<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turducken"><span style="color: black;">treat</span></a>' of a turkey/duck/chicken roasting hybrid is beyond delicious.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I on the other hand, not being of a Thanksgiving celebratory nationality, have decided to commemorate this long weekend instead with a mini sale of all the House of Socks patterns. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Indeed. You can get 10% off <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/designers/nicola-w"><span style="color: black;">any and all House of Socks patterns</span></a> from now until the end of Monday 26th of November by using the coupon code <b>TURDUCKEN </b>in the checkout page. (You see - there was method in my title madness!) The patterns are in 2 different currencies - the latest ones are in euros, the earlier ones in dollars - so you need to check to see if you're mixing and matching as otherwise you'll get Bob's 'crappers' problem page. If you need to go to the checkout more than once, don't worry - you can use the coupon code as many times as you wish! :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A few days ago I bowed to popular (more than 4 whole people) demand that I make a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/RedScotsHouseOfSocks"><span style="color: black;">facebook page for the patterns</span></a>. I did, and saw that it was good. I had been thinking about changing the name to something a little more grown-up, but decided in the end to stay true to my adult-but-not-grown-up persona. What wasn't so good was, it must be said, the rather lame profile picture. So, after looking online for sock fonts (more prolific that you'd imagine) but rejecting them as really just replacing one lame with another, I decided to get my socks and camera out for the boys.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've had this idea playing around in my head for a while now, thanks to owning some <b>Noro </b><i>Kureyon Sock</i> yarn for which I couldn't quite find a place. You know know how it is; they have great colourways, wonderful splashes of eclectically mixed hues (unless you get lucky and find one that's mostly all greens, or russets, or some such anomaly) that <strike>call</strike> holler your name in strangely hypnotic shrieks. And so it was thus, with colourway 256. A cheeky little number with what was originally thought to have a pleasant mixture of pinks, purples and blues, but with the discovery of a golden mustardy yellow and an altogether more in-your-face orangey-yellow, the cat was set amongst the pigeons. Or the tigers amongst the macaws, if you will. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But thus the paisley/60's-inspired <i>Hippie Hippie Socks</i> were brought into imagination.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">The daisies are very simply made, either using a hippie French knitting dolly (the method I used) or by working an i-cord. Either way, you need approximately 15 inches of knitting per flower. I waited until the end of both socks before continuing with the daisies, but you can very easily make half the flowers before the second sock, or even choose a contrasting yarn for the daisies, afterthought heel and toe, for example. They're made by pinning the cord out into a 5-petalled flower (as shown in the photo below) and joining up the edges with one of the cast-on/cast-off tails. They are simple to attach by sewing the tail onto the cuff in the configuration you prefer Try five per sock, or ten, or even just one - the sock equivalent of a flower behind the ear!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">According to <i>RedScot's Dictionary of Made-Up Words</i> (OUP 2018), an <i>Acute </i>ankle sock is a very simple pattern that creates three very sharp less-than-90</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 13px;">° angle points. An <i>Oblique </i>calf-length<i> </i>sock, on the other <strike>hand</strike> foot, uses the same basic pattern to create <i>four </i>very sharp angle points that aren't right angles, or multiples of the same...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I made the small size of <i>Acute</i>, for they may just be for someone whose fault they came into existence anyway (and my medium sock blockers were a tad on the large size for them, really...) but I made the <i>Oblique </i>in large for myself, and was so pleased with them I had to wear them as soon as they were blocked.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /><span style="line-height: 13px;">Click </span><b style="line-height: 13px;"><a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/oblique-socks"><span style="color: black;">HERE</span></a> </b><span style="line-height: 13px;">(Oblique) and </span><b style="line-height: 13px;"><a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/acute-socks"><span style="color: black;">HERE</span></a> </b><span style="line-height: 13px;">(Acute)to find the pattern pages on Ravelry (you can access the same pattern set from each page), or just click below to buy them now! Oh, how much? well, dang, but because they're so fast to knit up, I couldn't ask for more than a euro the pair! (Or £0.79 or $1.29 or AUS$1.23 or </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; text-align: start;">¥100 or </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; text-align: start;">₪5.05.)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(It says just 'Oblique' in the invoice, but both patterns are there!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, there had to be some kind of reference to Carlsberg advertising, considering we were in Copenhagen. ('Carlsberg, possibly the best lager in the world'...)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But what brought me to wonderful, wonderful Copenhagen? Brahms. Brahms and a smidgeon of Schubert. And a (non music-) student orchestra that didn't play like (non music-) students, thanks to their excellent conductor, a very dear friend of mine. <br /><br />Brahms with a mix of Sir Malcolm Sargent, I should say, as I got to sing Brahms in a wonderful new version (for mezzo-soprano) of <i>Vier ernste Gesänge</i> (<i>Four Serious Songs</i>), originally written for voice and piano, in a wonderful full orchestration by the afore-mentioned Sargent. So very lush and multi-dimensional! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The smidgeon of Schubert was Berlioz's orchestration of <i>Die Erlkönig</i>. I have a beautiful cd of Ann Sofie von Otter singing some of these orchestrations, and I was thrilled to find out the encore would be one of these glorious arrangements! Needless to say, I found all five songs so very different to sing with orchestra than with piano. Of course, you can still be intimate when singing with an orchestra, but I find it's such a different kind of intimacy. Piano and voice is quite stark in many ways, but is also very present. Just two people and their instruments creating expression and colour and their own little world. The palette is much more full with an orchestra, and it is always fun (and challenging) to try and create equally vibrant tones with the voice. (I suspect you can tell I've had more experience singing with orchestras and ensembles than with just piano!) But, needless to say, any given piece, on any given day, with any given singer, using any given accompaniment will create a myriad of different performances. It is, after all, what live music (to me) is all about.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />Copenhagen is full to the gunwales with strangely out-of-place architecture. Their city hall (</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Københavns Rådhus, </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">pictured above) looks like a northern European version of an Italian Renaissance palazzo, slightly clunkier and not having quite the right glowing red brick. And the inside is even stranger - walls, ceilings staircases all in 15th century style covered in tiles and </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">trompe l'oeil</i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> of the early 20th century Art Deco period. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There was intimacy of a different kind when we did our first concert, not in Denmark, but in Germany. (I would have mentioned this before, but it didn't go with the title of the post!) The lovely town of Münster played host to our fair company for a few days, and (apart from hellishly sleepless nights due to noisy incumbents of the same hotel) it was an interesting visit. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The town itself is lovely - the centre looks very old indeed and is surrounded by wonderful churches, but in reality 90% of the old town was destroyed in WWII. The old city has been rebuilt to look the way it did pre-war, and it is very charming, although slightly melancholy when you think of how old the buildings were before they were bombed.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We didn't, sadly, get to sing in any of these wonderful buildings, but instead were given the great lecture theatre of the university. Complete with the acoustics of a taxidermied donkey. The dusty and air-conditioned (and, strangely, central-heated) stuffy air of both backstage and front of house gave the impression that you were singing and breathing into an ancient velvet curtain, letting no sound resonate but instead smother it to death in a surprisingly efficient manner. This is the kind of intimate sound all performers can do quite happily without...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But back to Denmark, where we had acoustics in cathedral-loads. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Århus Domkirke was very generous with its sound. Perhaps a bit too generous, but after Münster anything was delightful! (And there was the added bonus of seeing the exterior of the rather amazing-looking theatre - found at the bottom of these five photos.) I shall always remember Århus, however, not for being a pretty town with lovely architectural features, but for supplying me with possibly the finest cappuccino I think I've ever had. <br /></span><br />
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