Research Trip, Yeah, That's It...
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lwoodHey, are you at all interested in Scandinavian thingies and knitting? Do you consider yourself at least an intermediate knitter, capable of simple lace and cabling?
Then do I have the thing for you!
Look! There's a workshop in Seattle about just this stuff! I think I will take myself as a birthday present!
It includes those Mittens ofSámi Wizards Rovaniemi. It includes Icelandic shawls! Faroese shawls! Faroese booties!
It includes the author of Viking Patterns for Knitting doing a class on "The Magic of Runes":
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dpaxson says of this: "Oh, good. You can give her a copy of my book." This was also about the time she sat back and said, "Well, you have to do this, because you need to write about it for Our Troth.)
AND! And! Lookitthis!
Well, okay, gloves aren't useful where I live, but the same lady also does:
If I get into this, with classes anything like the ones I want, I cannot also go to Keepers' Crossing. I'm okay with that; I believe I've done what I have needed to do there, short of a full-on Hrafnar contingent. Besides, at last count,emberleo was going, and that'll do to represent our particular brand of insanity.
Then, of course, the whole thing gets balled into an extensive knitting article for Our Troth III, with charts. Oh, yes. There will be charts. Then the roundup ofvictims volunteers for a few words on spinning, weaving...
But back to this thing in Seattle, going to it will leave me to deal with other business the immediately proceeding weekend, which will ease a couple needs around here.
Now, gosh darn it, who do I know in Seattle to crash with...hmm...it'll come to me, just give me a sec...
-- Lorrie
PS: Props tofaeryl for the tipoff.
Then do I have the thing for you!
Look! There's a workshop in Seattle about just this stuff! I think I will take myself as a birthday present!
It includes those Mittens of
It includes the author of Viking Patterns for Knitting doing a class on "The Magic of Runes":
In Viking times, runes were associated with magic and special powers. Get started on knitting your own power emblem--your name or a short word. We touch on choosing runes with the correct sound value, spacing, and placement on your project.
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dpaxson says of this: "Oh, good. You can give her a copy of my book." This was also about the time she sat back and said, "Well, you have to do this, because you need to write about it for Our Troth.)AND! And! Lookitthis!
Introduction to traditional folk life, mythology, folk belief, and superstition concerning mittens and gloves. The magic is also a double knitting technique to make finger on gloves with two needles. (tube)
Well, okay, gloves aren't useful where I live, but the same lady also does:
Introduction to traditional folk life, mythology, folk belief, and superstition concerning mittens and gloves. The magic is also a double knitting technique to make a "Troll"--a little good helper from Norwegian mythology. Knitters can spin a "life-thread" for their little "being".
If I get into this, with classes anything like the ones I want, I cannot also go to Keepers' Crossing. I'm okay with that; I believe I've done what I have needed to do there, short of a full-on Hrafnar contingent. Besides, at last count,
emberleo was going, and that'll do to represent our particular brand of insanity.Then, of course, the whole thing gets balled into an extensive knitting article for Our Troth III, with charts. Oh, yes. There will be charts. Then the roundup of
But back to this thing in Seattle, going to it will leave me to deal with other business the immediately proceeding weekend, which will ease a couple needs around here.
Now, gosh darn it, who do I know in Seattle to crash with...hmm...it'll come to me, just give me a sec...
-- Lorrie
PS: Props to
faeryl for the tipoff.
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Date: 2007-04-30 07:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-04-30 09:37 pm (UTC)I mean, I do know other people in Seattle!
Just...well, okay, if it weren't
-- Lorrie
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Date: 2007-04-30 10:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-04-30 10:48 pm (UTC)-- Lorrie
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Date: 2007-04-30 08:25 pm (UTC)And yes, it would be awesome for you to do a writeup on it for Our Troth. :-)
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Date: 2007-04-30 09:35 pm (UTC)In other, better news--should we like each other well enough once we meet, I happen to have scored crash space for both of us in Seattle. ;)
I'd just plain say you were covered now, but it wouldn't do for me to vouch for someone I hadn't met--on the other hand, I wouldn't've even said so tentatively did I not already have an amiable hunch about you.
So count on a bit more yarn money. ;)
-- Lorrie
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Date: 2007-04-30 09:22 pm (UTC)I've been doing lots and lots and owmyachingfingers lots of spinning and research about spinning and the traditional magic and folklore of spinning and the modern uses of spinning fu and woo, mostly from the Frau Holle angle, with bits of Frigg, Freyja, and teh Norns for the certain piquant som'in som'in. So, y'know, mebbe we should chat.
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Date: 2007-04-30 09:38 pm (UTC)-- Lorrie, who has been in fanfic too long not to look at that and go, "One True Trio?"
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Date: 2007-04-30 09:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-04-30 09:38 pm (UTC)-- Lorrie
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Date: 2007-04-30 09:42 pm (UTC)I'm going to go pout now.
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Date: 2007-04-30 10:49 pm (UTC);)
-- Lorrie
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Date: 2007-04-30 11:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-01 05:02 pm (UTC)8-P
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Date: 2007-04-30 10:57 pm (UTC)My plan has been to make it to Keeper's Crossing next year. Of course, I had a plan to make it to the Palo Alto Morris Dancers this year, and I'm not gonna do that either.
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Date: 2007-05-01 02:23 am (UTC)--Ember--
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Date: 2007-05-01 05:02 pm (UTC)-- Lorrie
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Date: 2007-05-01 02:22 am (UTC)When last you asked me if I was going to Keeper's Crossing, because there was a question if you could attend some Other Thing Entirely, you had to say no to that thing because you were coming *with* me to Keeper's Crossing, even though I pointed out my ability to cope without you.
Now that it's knitting, I can cope? Then what about the Other Thing Entirely?
--Ember--
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Date: 2007-05-01 05:13 pm (UTC)After thinking it over, even then, I thought, "Well, you know, it wound up being a very useful part of the experience that I was alone, without a net. Assuming Ember, after having been fully briefed, is still willing to go, I wager that abroad and alone will be educational for her, too."
Note, please, that the whole "formal embassy" that had been proposed back in January fell apart when
Plus, you didn't seem to much want me to go at any point when I brought it up--you said you were quite capable, and I believed you.
For my own sake, I do not need to go again. You didn't seem to particularly need me to accompany you--or, if you did, you weren't clear in communicating it to me.
While I have ambivalent feelings toward both Keepers' Crossing and That Other Thing, I have none towards the knitting conference.
Lastly, no-one has been wholly told No...or Yes.
So.
Does that make more sense?
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Date: 2007-05-01 06:56 pm (UTC)--Ember--
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Date: 2007-05-01 08:38 pm (UTC)