It's cold enough not to need to put the sticks and string down for a while yet!
Hey! You can knit right through summer, even a wretchedly bletcherous one--just switch to lighter, smaller, projects. Which leads me to:
Have you considered including stuff for us blokes wot knit too?
Okay, perhaps I'm just coming at this from a narrowmindedly womanly perspective...but after obviously gender-specific garments (e.g. lace shawls), what would make a knitting section inherently womanly or manly? Mind you, I love making lace shawls, but they all wind up being given away and/or devotional garments...I like looking at it, I like working it, but the frothy stuff is not terribly me.
ANYway--the first time I ever knit at Trothmoot, it was to make bags for everyone on the Rede. Not big old handbags, more like rune/dice/Crown Royal bags: 20 cm tall, 15 cm wide, round bottom, drawstring, flat-bottomed so it could stand up straight. The thing that made them heathen was that I, having just bought Viking Patterns for Knitting reverse-engineered Lavold's Younger Futhark patterns into the Troth's bindrune.
'cos I could.
I was thinking of putting that pattern in my chapter, plus some discussion of the several stitch patterns and shaping techniques. But you, as a heathen knitter who also possesses the external plumbing: what would you like to see?
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Re: slowly heading towards Spring here but still knitting
Date: 2007-08-03 09:49 pm (UTC)Hey! You can knit right through summer, even a wretchedly bletcherous one--just switch to lighter, smaller, projects. Which leads me to:
Have you considered including stuff for us blokes wot knit too?
Okay, perhaps I'm just coming at this from a narrowmindedly womanly perspective...but after obviously gender-specific garments (e.g. lace shawls), what would make a knitting section inherently womanly or manly? Mind you, I love making lace shawls, but they all wind up being given away and/or devotional garments...I like looking at it, I like working it, but the frothy stuff is not terribly me.
ANYway--the first time I ever knit at Trothmoot, it was to make bags for everyone on the Rede. Not big old handbags, more like rune/dice/Crown Royal bags: 20 cm tall, 15 cm wide, round bottom, drawstring, flat-bottomed so it could stand up straight. The thing that made them heathen was that I, having just bought Viking Patterns for Knitting reverse-engineered Lavold's Younger Futhark patterns into the Troth's bindrune.
'cos I could.
I was thinking of putting that pattern in my chapter, plus some discussion of the several stitch patterns and shaping techniques. But you, as a heathen knitter who also possesses the external plumbing: what would you like to see?
-- Lorrie