Whoops!
Sorry to bloglines subscribers out there – yes that post about going to the Raptor Foundation is an old one – I’d just noticed that I’d totally messed up the formatting – all better now I hope…
And another whoops – we have no ‘big’ computer – it’s dead. Very dead. Possibly all our data gone dead. 
John thinks he’s worked out what happened (it died – but apparently it died with a beep and a whirr rather than just a clunk – I’m not entirely sure whether this is good news or bad news). And of course it’s been rather a while since the hard drive has been backed up. (Just don’t say it, we know, we don’t need telling… )
So although there has been knitting, I have yet to discover how to get pictures onto the laptop. (It’s probably not hard, but there’s not actual instructions written on the machine itself saying anything like “Anne, plug the camera in here” ).
So you’ll have to make do with descriptions (for now).
Having spent a portion of last Tuesday’s KTog dissing white baby clothes, I’ve started… a white baby kimono. My excuse – I’m being pretty firm about knitting from my stash and Ruth’s childminder’s daughter is having a little boy in the next couple of weeks. A year or so ago my cousin gave me some Phildar Oxygene partly knit-up that her daughter had already outgrown. (Tee hee, yes, you’re right, it’s not just white, it’s white acrylic… but it’s Phildar white acrylic… ) She also passed on a pattern magazine, that for some reason I assumed I could follow – I can sort of read French, I can read knitting patterns – stands to reason I can read French knitting patterns – right? Wrong. To start with I’m not exactly sure what the item is actually supposed to be – apparently it’s a brassiere (and no, that’s not underwear – it’s a baby vest), but the picture doesn’t show the back, so I can’t really work out what’s supposed to be going on – the two back pieces are 31 sts each wide, the front is 50 sts – so there’s obviously an overlap – so I’ve turned it back to front and am going to call it a kimono – I could never be doing with back-fastening baby clothes anyway.)
Oh, and the Shetland Garden Stole is still growing – we had a long car journey last weekend, so I managed to get onto the last chart – way hey!
And my mother is ever so impressed that I’m knitting her socks that are custom designed to fit her ankles.
But all that would be so much more meaningful with pictures.
Sigh.
three comments:
Alas about your computer!! crosses fingers Hee hee – well, um, white acrylic, easy to wash, right?!Chris () (link) - 29 April '07 - 23:47
There’s a useful French knitting terms dictionary at Chez Plum.http://chezplum.com/knitting-from-the-fr..
I’ve used to translate a Phildar pattern, although admittedly I haven’t actually tried knitting said pattern.
Pigwotknits () (link) - 30 April '07 - 11:57
Poor Anne! Dead computer, other people’s knitting… I bet the white acrylic kimono will look very smart. I just hope you can knit to the same tension as the original knitter!But I really want to see that shawl!!
Mary deB () (link) - 30 April '07 - 13:15
