Lamentation and Woe!

[lwood]

Dagnabbit, I was chugging along quite well on Eunny Jang's Print o'the Wave Stole in the ever-popular Sea Silk yarn as a gift for erynn999 with a shout-out to Manannan MacLir...

...and I realised I'd used the wrong cast-on.

So it all has to come out, lest there be an unsightly ridge at one end, and really, that just won't do.

On the bright side, it means it'll be that much longer before I have to buy the second skein. Nova Scotia colorway, friends and neighbors, which wobbles through many greens, teals, and surfaces to peacock blue. Yum!

-- Lorrie

Comments

[erynn999.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, I'm sorry there was a bobble in the knitting, but I'm *so* looking forward to the finished stole!

*snuggles you liek whoa*

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, I'm sorry there was a bobble in the knitting, but I'm *so* looking forward to the finished stole!

Oh, it's gorgeous even in progress, and the smooth shininess of the yarn is a joy to knit. More, I now have the pattern pretty much cold, so that means that the do-over will go faster than the do did.

But still...dagnabbit!

Fear not, though: it won't leave my needles 'til it's gorgeous.

-- Lorrie

[ivy]

Wow. That's really awesome, and doubly so with the intention worked into every stitch of it. I can only crochet (blankets for the homeless -- I only know how to do one pattern), and my best-beloved deities tend to be more into stabby things and compost, but I am still ridiculously impressed.

[lwood.livejournal.com]

my best-beloved deities tend to be more into stabby things and compost

Yeah, I've never knit anything for Odin--but when I learned Japanese cord braiding (kumihimo), I did learn how to make a nine-stranded round braid, three blue, three grey, three black--and proceeded to make a series of nooses for all the Odin-flavored people in my life.

Do they have favorite colors? Motifs? Animals?

I mean, there's always something, like...





;)

-- Lorrie

[shantak.livejournal.com]

OMG, I love the digestive track, what with all my past troubles. I wonder if my pediatric gastroenterologist would like one before he retires.

I'll see if I can google it. Neat!

-smk

[lwood.livejournal.com]

http://www.strangebuttrewe.com/knitGI.htm

[ivy]

[laughs!] The GI tract is hilarious, but I would utterly not be able to use it as a devotional piece with a straight face. (Even though probably everyone could use a deity of well-functioning intestines...)

Most of the way that I relate to my deities is through doing their work, with the occasional overshadowing-embodiment. So my impending NoLA cleanup effort is vocational and devotional (Morrigan, Who is *pissed off* at that whole situation IME), my permaculture and gardening efforts and volunteer work and Save-the-Bay garbage pickup are sweated prayers (Danú), and my forest ecology volunteering is tending to Her creatures (Flidais). My altars tend to have 8,547 tree parts (fallen leaves, bark, acorns or seeds, interesting wooden bits) and relatively little that's human-made on them. I think I mostly get the feral flavor of Celtic deity, rather than the more domestic-friendly versions, and that influences how I relate to Them. (Then again, I think a lot of that is probably just me... I know other people that work with the same deity and have equally valid but very different relationships with Them.)

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Most of the way that I relate to my deities is through doing their work, with the occasional overshadowing-embodiment.

*waves at all the communication and agitprop filling her LJ*

I think I have some idea what you're talking about.

I just also knit--in quiet moments.

Hm. The Morrigan, eh?

Well, obviously you need one of these:



*grin*

-- Lorrie

[lwood.livejournal.com]

I meant THESE:

[ivy]

*waves at all the communication and agitprop filling her LJ*
I think I have some idea what you're talking about.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure we bat for the same team, as it were. [grin]

The eyeballs are hilarious! I don't think they'd fit my relationship with Her, as She seems to be (at least to me) even more of a minimalist than I am, though. Despite Her being my primary Goddess, I don't have a single item that she seems to really cotton to. I have a few pictures that remind me of Her up, and one that I consider a pretty reasonable portrait, but I get the feeling from Her that those are more for my benefit and that She doesn't really care much whether I have anything of the sort or not. My altars are a lot heavier on leaves/bark/stones/local-land-spirit-gifts than they are for my deities, strangely. (Though given my relationship with Danú, there's a fair amount of bleedover between big-giant-Her and local land spirits that operate in a Celt-friendly context. So, arguably, the assorted plant parts evoke Her as well.)

[lwood.livejournal.com]

I don't think they'd fit my relationship with Her, as She seems to be (at least to me) even more of a minimalist than I am, though.

*laugh* I kinda figured.

But I wanted an excuse to say, "LOOK! Crocheted eyeballs! Aren't they the cutest?"

I get the feeling from Her that those are more for my benefit and that She doesn't really care much whether I have anything of the sort or not.

This is my understanding from Odin, as well.

So if I even have an altar, it's minimal: there is a broad-brimmed black hat hanging in the corner. It has a nine-strand cord, tied into a noose, serving as a hatband.

Then dpaxson comes over and says, "But why don't you ahve more of an altar?"

I blink, "What do you do with an altar once you have one?"

"Er. Contemplate it?"

"Um. I have really good visualization gear in my head--that doesn't need dusting, can't be knocked over by cats, and has all the detail I want."

Now, that's Odin. There's another Person in my life who likes rather a few more tchotchkes, thanks, and by setting up her altar, I came to realize that it made some of my mental background processes a little more content and purry.

So I finally broke down and bought one of OberOtterTim Zell's Odin statues...'cos it sure is purty...

Then I have to proof it versus cats.

*eyes cats*

Everything connects to...everything. If I feel Odin in every errant breeze, every breath, what does a collection of intentional objects do for me?

Hm, maybe I should make this a post to encourage discussion; this comment thread, by LJ terms, is quite stale.

-- LOrrie

[wednesday]

*looks*

...whoa. We have a goal, ladies and gentlemen.

[lwood.livejournal.com]

To be fair, those pictures are of one done in cobweb-weight yarn. As I expect devotional works of mine to see a fair bit of actual use by actual human-type people, I do not aim for the traditional "wedding ring" wafty thing, but use heavier yarn and needles.

So, "much the same, only thicker and more opaque", but all the holes, yes, are in the very right places.

And? LOOK IT'S THE SEAWEED YARN YAY!

-- Lorrie

[wednesday]

Yeah, I've gone straight to a knitter's review thread to see how people have done with the laceweight/size 4 approach. Durable Is Good.

The seaweed yarn's out of my budget at the moment, which is okay -- I got the "okay, you're making a BAG" headclock first to worry about.

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Durable Is Good.

Silk is very, very strong, as is rayon/tencel. I usually bite through my yarn by rubbing my incisors to and fro, grinding it, and the sea silk takes longer to cut this way than any yarn I've worked with--including a lot of worsted weight stuff.

"okay, you're making a BAG" headclock first to worry about.

Groceries? Ritual doodads?

What size? Method?

I worked out a crochet/knit combo bag once, 'cos I wanted, essentially, a Crown Royal bag: stands flat, is otherwise a cylinder, has a nice drawstring. 8-)

-- Lorrie

[wednesday]

Silk is very, very strong

I believe it. It's the finished garment I'd be afraid for, though, thus, well, the likewise Wariness of The Wafty Thing. I break things by coming near them.

Groceries? Ritual doodads?
What size? Method?

Groceries are ritual doodads half the time, so answering is difficult. :) This is probably not the crane bag.

Backpacky-thing. Felted knit thing. This, except skipping the colourwork (the cord and straps will be white, but the rest dark green). Right now, I'm trying to work through the calculations to sort out whether I have enough of the Chosen Stuff on hand to finish it.

[lwood.livejournal.com]

I believe it. It's the finished garment I'd be afraid for, though, thus, well, the likewise Wariness of The Wafty Thing. I break things by coming near them.


Mind you, ahead on my devotional queue is one from a Japanese-inspired pattern that will be all delicate and wafty, but when it's not part of the job requirements, well, I don't wanna so I'm not gonna so THERE.

8-P

Groceries are ritual doodads half the time, so answering is difficult. :)

True, that.

Felted knit thing. This, except skipping the colourwork (the cord and straps will be white, but the rest dark green). Right now, I'm trying to work through the calculations to sort out whether I have enough of the Chosen Stuff on hand to finish it.

While I realise that the exact color combination may be a Requirement, and you have already bought yarn, using white for anything that:

1) Is going to see real use as a practical object.
2) Cannot, feasably, be run through the wash with bleach.

...probably shouldn't be white.

If it is not preaching to the choir to say it, you will want much more yarn than you think for a fulled (mmm, technical pedantry) project like this one. Plus, you will want to...I know, we all hates it...knit a test swatch and run it through to see how it shrinks, as proportion of shrinkage in fulling will vary a lot between makes and models of yarn.

Double-stranded Cascade 220 is often recommended to me for fulling, but what seems to really be important is that it's smooth, non-superwash wool (or otherwise all-mammalian and non-superwash), and not too tightly spun.

By the way, for the cost-conscious knitter that's not currently laboring under crazy requirements like "OMG SEAWEED!"?

Knit Picks (http://www.knitpicks.com/) FTW.

-- Lorrie

[wednesday]

"White" is flexible enough and a small enough component that point taken. (Would also be processed -- yeah, I know, but the relationship between me and the word "full" is Frought -- separately, avoiding bleed problems, so the main detail would be day to day wear.) I am not opposed to replacing that with J. Random Natural Organic Pale Neutral Brown Thing. It's the main body I've got to hand, and swatches of it have already been run.

'Course, am spoilt -- just got through an improv project with a striped dice bag, and the black didn't even *bleed* into the white.

I have a bunch of Nashua Creative Focus Chunky -- wool/alpaca, non-superwashy, single-ply, pretty darn loosely spun (not quite to the point of derogatory metaphor, but getting there)... and 3st/inch instead of the requested 4. The math involved kills me. The math is A Big Stupid Issue. But the yarn kind of jumped on my head.

Knit Picks seems to make a *lot* of people happy. Vote of confidence is a Good Thing.

[lwood.livejournal.com]

"White" is flexible enough and a small enough component that point taken.

Undyed is naturally dingy, so are some of the paler, frothier greys--any of these would show dirt less readily.

3st/inch instead of the requested 4. The math involved kills me. T

Have you considered changing your needle size? Going down one or two should bring you back to spec.

But the yarn kind of jumped on my head.

Yeeeeeah, I know that one.

Knit Picks seems to make a *lot* of people happy. Vote of confidence is a Good Thing.

Just don't take their standard shipping--it's parcel post.

Well, okay, do take it if you don't need that yarn before, say, the next Ice Age.

-- Lorrie

[wednesday]

(And then, after a few minutes, the "hey, you've got a few iterations of A Wedding next year -- why not make two?" realization hit. Ahgahd.)

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Aiiiieeeeeee!

-- Lorrie

[emberleo.livejournal.com]

Speaking of erynn999, I paid her for her Ogham book thingy, so you owe me a file, I believe. .pdf or somesuch?

--Ember--

[lwood.livejournal.com]

e-mail me about it, and I'll kick it to ya.

[emberleo.livejournal.com]

*shakes her head and laughs* Where does this message reach you?

Yeah, I know, you want something to reply to from home.

--Ember--