Flagel Knitting Files

Let's start with the scarf, the UND scarf in particular.  When we last saw it, it was in the midst of the first UND logo being duplicate stitched on the front panel, it needed several more colour blocks and I was deciding if I would indeed do the logo on four sides rather than just two.  All is now complete, including the four sides of the logo.  (It is hard to photograph both sides so you will have to take my word for it, at 2-2.5 hours of duplicate stitching per logo, there are approximately 10 hours of UND on this scarf.) This is a long (think 6 feet/2 meter) scarf made of wool so it needs to be worn in a cold weather location.  It will be perfect when my son wears it to cheer on his favourite college hockey team.  This one is now just waiting for the arrival of Christmas.  BTW there is one more ¨O¨ scarf to make for Paul's cousin, then I think it will be time to retire this pattern for a while. Now for another helping of Ireland.  On the sec...

Sometime in mid-July I completely and thoroughly fell into a l-o-n-g stint of writer's block.  All the same daily knitting updates were being read, social media was filled with new and at least to some interesting ideas about the craft, but I didn't care.  Not that there is ever anything earth shattering written here, but at least I seem to find something to say about the most trivial of things. Being too busy with other things could not be used as an excuse either.  I was knitting on very simple patterns that I deemed to not be worth commenting on; so like others things I do for fun, I just didn't write for almost six weeks.  And true to form, some of you concerned about me asked if I was OK either by writing, calling or e-mailing.  Thank you for your concern.  Writer's block can have a full recovery.  I think it has now passed. I was preparing during that time to take a 14-day tour of Ireland and Scotland, taking everything I needed in one sm...

First an explanation, true it has been sometime since I last posted something new.  This happens periodically, it seems as if I have nothing to say, so I say nothing.  I continue to knit and will update you later.  Today I want to link you to a story in  The New Yorker .  Alison Lurie has an article lifted from her upcoming book, Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting.  The book isn't due out until November 2015. It outlines knitters' myth about knitting a sweater for a significant other, plus gives a quick, succinct, history about knitting.  Thank you Susan for sharing this.  (BTW, I am writing this post from Northern Ireland, Derry, up until two weeks ago known as Londonderry to be specific, so it is a one off until I get back.) Here  is the link:  http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-sweater-curse