(sum)Headway
Is the name I've given my first made up object for grown ups. Knit-wise I feel I am making headway, but check it out..
holey moley only some headway.
Hence the post (post) modernist title. What I'm trying to do is replicate the mock cable of Furry Goodness into a beret. Not just any old beret either, but a perfectly shaped beret like the one I bought in Vancouver last year ( which is machine knitted in fine cotton and so presents a challenge copying the increasing proportions in worsted weight alpaca) ahem...so..the mock cable stitch is easy enough on straight needles but in the round? Being too damn lazy to figure out a way to adapt it to circulars, I just do every 6th row backwards instead, giving me these lovely breeze holes. Serve me right for being so lazy.
So one last look before I rip that sucker...
Procastination-wise, I just can't decide whether these things are cute or kitsch. Like Bowie as Andy Warhol said in Basquiat
"Gee, I just don't know what's any good any more".
holey moley only some headway.Hence the post (post) modernist title. What I'm trying to do is replicate the mock cable of Furry Goodness into a beret. Not just any old beret either, but a perfectly shaped beret like the one I bought in Vancouver last year ( which is machine knitted in fine cotton and so presents a challenge copying the increasing proportions in worsted weight alpaca) ahem...so..the mock cable stitch is easy enough on straight needles but in the round? Being too damn lazy to figure out a way to adapt it to circulars, I just do every 6th row backwards instead, giving me these lovely breeze holes. Serve me right for being so lazy.
So one last look before I rip that sucker...
Procastination-wise, I just can't decide whether these things are cute or kitsch. Like Bowie as Andy Warhol said in Basquiat
"Gee, I just don't know what's any good any more".
posted by Carson at 1:24 pm
3 Comments:
Oh I love that scene in Basquiat! I can't even tell you how often that comes to mind during critiques and discussions in grad school.
I should also say how much I've been enjoying your site - really splendid!
I think they are cute and kitsch (maybe a bit more kitsch than cute). But I think you can do better, and have the "I designed it myself" pleasure! I'm thinking about giving the crochet tea set a go...once I finish one of the 100 other projects I've got dancing around my head.
vicki..oh I'm so glad someone else got that reference. one never knows when one's scatter-gun highly idiosyncratic referencing is going to resonate with someone else. hurrah!
thankyou & enjoy
rose red..yes you're quite right. they DO tip over onto the kitschey end of the scale. And yes, I'll have to add that to my ever-increasing mental list of projects as well.
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