I am currently in the middle of the Lacy Hug-Me-Tight from Tracey Ullmann's and Mel Clark's Knit Two Together. I have at last got past the Rib of Eternity, and into the fussy bit -- ah me, ordinarily I like lace, and I like knitting lace, but I'm very tired lately, dragged down with an ear/sinus infection, so that it took me 45 minutes last night to do one 12-row repeat, as I kept knitting a row in a kind of stupor and coming out with the wrong number of stitches at the end and having to shake myself and unpick and recount, and in the end I just set it down thinking I might do some colorful fingerless mitts instead, or a sock.
Well, at least I have the liberty of knitting or not, of saying to myself, "oh, I'll just do something quick and pretty!" --
This is Michelle Williams and Shirley Henderson in a scene from "Meek's Cutoff", just out this month. I've long been fascinated by the Oregon Trail, and this movie looks interesting because of that, because it gives more of a woman's perspective on the journey -- not just the adventure, the Indians, but the long hard slog, the difficulty of preparing meals for your family, of keeping them clean, keeping them safe. The image has stayed with me for years of a rocking chair left behind at the side of the trail because the wagon is too heavy.
Well, at least you can blame the knitting confusion on a sinus infection. When I do that, it must be old age! I keep thinking, well, what's so difficult about this pattern? Or looking back and seeing a mistake so far into the project that I don't want to rip it all out to fix it.
Posted by: Berva (Mom) | April 20, 2011 at 08:45 AM