What the Friday?

 In which I am looking at amazing stuff I find for sale on the Internet. 

Like this 19th century skate in perfect condition.

Picture is from the ebay post.

It should be in a museum, I think.

Outlander Rent Shawl

 This is also something I wanted to knit for ages, I bought the yarn years ago, even before I made my Outlander outfit.

I even decided to start it and gone as far as taking out the yarn and print the pattern several times, but honestly, the pattern just confused me. 

Yes, I can see from the stills of the TV show the way the ridges of the garter stitch go, but I thought it is unnecessarily complicated way of knitting a shawl.

This year, we were having an event in Sirok, where the last two times we have been there for the March 15th celebrations, the weather was COLD, I thought, high time a pattern just cannot get the better of me.

I sat down and started. 

First juggling two colors, then three.

And then five balls up in the air.

So, this shawl is not knitted from top down, and adding the decorating two stripe, when one runs out of the base yarn, but knit from the bottom point and adds the stripes as intarsia, and knits the middle part first, then adding the two outward going edges later, one side at the time. 

I have knitted the shawl bigger than the pattern instructions (as if you remember, for me a shawl is the bigger the better).

I am glad I managed all of it, the tons of garter stitch (I am not fan of it), the juggling the colors, the intarsia, but still, I think, with the basic top down version, the achieved effect is the same, with a lot less fuss, with the added benefit, of being able to knit, at least the middle part, until we have yarn, and not having to take a chance of either ending up with a ton of leftovers or running out of the yarn before we finish. 

I still say that this way is unnecessarily complicated and I don't think that if this would have been knitted in the period, they wouldn't use the simplest way.

Of course I know that the knitwear in the show, Outlander is not necessarily historically accurate, at least not for the middle of teh 18th cetury. 

However, in the 19th century, from the early Victorian times, knitted shawls were around, that is -partly- I decided to wear it with my early victorian outfit.

The yarn I used is DROPS Soft Tweed, of which I just wrote an ode a week or so ago, so I will try not to repeat myself. 

But I do have to reiterate, that I ADOREthis yarn. It is so soft for being a rustic, tweedy yarn. Also, it is warm. 

And I would just LOVE if the colors it used to have would be available again... along with even more color choice. 

Photos: Norbert Varga @bodeszphoto

Yarn: DROPS Soft Tweed, I bought from Nordfonal

Weekly SO

 Last week I managed to mix up the English and the Hungarian translations of the same post and nobody told me, I only realized like two days later, when I -of course- promptly switched them, but it does make me wonder, if anybody reads these... 

Yet here I am with another of these. 

I hate all those videos/reels that keeps telling me what and how to dress, wear my hair, etc, so it would not age me. 

For god sake, I am past fifty, I have silver hair. NOTHING I wear would make me younger. I would be still past fifty, still silver haired and somewhat overweight, even if I only tuck half of a shirt in the waist of my pants.

Why can't I enjoy my life, without being reminded ever darn second, that I should scramble to LOOK younger? 

That reminds me of the Facebook meme:

Picture is from the Internet.

April fools

My face as I am trying to figure out something funny for you on april fool's day. 

Because I really thought hard about it...

Like announcing I will stop blogging. Or knitting. Or sewing. 

But I thought, I should just let it go...