peeking through in this picture and that people who live in snowier parts of the world are not impressed. But it's a little deeper today and any day when I get to wear my Sorels is a good day. The kids across the street somehow managed to get enough snow together to build a massive snow woman, complete with strapless evening gown. But she didn't survive the night and is now a massive blue cone.
The multicolor moebius is now off the needles and I've started a pair of silk/wool blend socks. I'm long since bored with plain, rectangular scarves, but I'm finding these moebiuses (moebii ?) endlessly fascinating. There are so many posssibilities for color, style, size and form. Cat Bordhi is correct in her two moebius books A Treasury of Magical Knitting and A Second Treasury of Magical Knitting, this is magic. I have done a couple moebius scarves in Elizabeth Zimmerman's style, where you basically knit a long rectangle, then join the ends with a twist, creating the moebius. But Cat Bordhi's cast on to a long needle with the twist built in adds magic to the knitting. I'd like to think that Elizabeth would have loved it, had she lived to see it. I'll try to get some pictures up this weekend of some of the various moebius projects I've done this year.Well, with me in my moebius and pa in his cap, the kitties are
tucked in for a long winter's nap. Not that they confine their napping to winter! Smokey is doing her monitor top impressionist/Mona Lisa impression and we're about to head out for winter provisions (AKA cat food and yarn). The school quarter is all but wrapped up and I'm trying to talk "pa" into a downtown gallery walk tonight sponsored by the Whatcom Museum.
Despite the darkness and the cold and the short days. I really love winter. It's the height of the knitting season. It's easy to find plenty of days to curl up on the couch with yarn and needles. Cats, yarn, books...Life is good!
2 comments:
I'm just starting my first moebius now. This knitting method is just too cool! I'm trying to figure out what to do about accumulating needles - I do like my Boye interchangeables, but they don't have long cords the way Denise does. And 47" for Addis is an awkward size to find, not to mention expensive.
If I *did* spring for more Addis, what sizes have you found most useful for moebii?
Actually I use my Denise interchangeables, which allow you to join 2 cords to make a longer one. They have also now come out with 40" and 52" cords, which I think I will acquire tonight at the yarn shop when I go to sit & knit tonight.
I did buy one 40" Addi Turbo in a size 7 and have used it for a couple of the arrow scarves. But I do prefer the Denises.
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