knitabit

The Winter of Our Discontent

I watched the PBS show about Shakespeare tonight so I felt a little Shakespeare in the posting title was somehow apropos. We then watched - also on PBS - the show about the Medici family (the "godfathers of the renaissance") which was also very cool. I wish I'd seen it before we went to Florence three years ago.

But from whence does our discontent cometh?

1. This is the second time I've typed in this blog entry because it got lost when I tried to save it the first time. I hate it when that happens.

2. My stupid cold has settled in comfortably, robbing some of my sense of taste. My voice is starting to go, too.

3. The outside temperatures are now miserably sub-zero; I just haven't been able to re-acclimate since returning from our beach vacation. Yes, I know I'm whining.

4. I'm having some sleeve frustrations with the raglan, the result of poor planning I'm afraid. I'm not following a regular pattern; rather, I'm using a "percentage system" approach. The first attempt resulted in a cuff that was too tight. The second attempt improved on the cuff, but now I'm about halfway up and this sleeve is still too skinny. My math all checks out - the problem lies, I think, with changes in fashion. Men's sweaters these days are pretty bulky and oversized, whereas the percentage approach produces something like the old-fashioned ski sweaters like they might have worn in the 50's or 60's. I'll get some sweaters that he likes out of the closet and see what I can come up with in the way of more sensible percentages for today's tastes. And I'll frog the sleeve back down to the cuff and have another go at it.

Still, I don't mind all that much. Plain stockinette has been very therapeutic for me the last couple of weeks, and makes for easier TV watching.

And we're headed up to the cabin this weekend...that means primo knitting time.

So I guess I'm not really all that discontent. Just whiny.

Comments

Well, it's c-c-c-cold. Even if we're not discontent, we can surely whine, pace http://users.thelink.net/tryon/blog/cold.gif

Hope you feel better soon.

Posted by: Patricia Tryon at February 12, 2004 05:13 PM

Er, make that:

http://www.ptryn.com/blog/cold.gif

Posted by: Patricia Tryon at February 17, 2004 02:30 PM