Shrug-Along?
Just a quickie, because I am seriously under the gun for my dissertation--it has to be circulated to my committee on Friday, so I am not allowed to so much as touch a pair of knitting needles until then.
I can, however, fantasize about what I am going to knit next. See, the next step is my dissertation defense, where I get to sit in a conference room and be grilled by five people about the merits of my work--which I am not feeling so meritorious about right now--and I think I will be able to stand up to that much better if I am wearing something comforting that I knitted myself. Because I know I am ok at knitting, and it will be nice to have a reminder in there with me that I am ok at something.
So I am thinking shrug, a) because it's hot here, yet there is fierce air-conditioning and b) because it's smallish and I can get it done in the next two weeks, knock wood. And then Anna was saying, what should I knit next? And I said a shrug, and she said ooh maybe, and now I'm thinking it would be fun to have a shrug-along! Anyone interested? I don't know how to make fancy buttons or anything, but I can try to figure it out next week.
Edited: Turns out there already is a shrug-along. Why didn't anyone tell me? (I'm looking at you, Google.) If you're interested it's here.
Here's what I'm planning on:
It's from the Staff Projects page in the summer 2005 IK--I like it because it has a little cable detail, and is Regency-inspired which is good because my work is in the Regency period for the most part. Isn't that so dorky, that I am going to knit something because it's inspired by the Regency period? And yet I love it. It calls for Southwest Trading Co. Oasis, a soy silk, but I just might be crazy and see what happens if I try it in my new best friend Calmer.
I can, however, fantasize about what I am going to knit next. See, the next step is my dissertation defense, where I get to sit in a conference room and be grilled by five people about the merits of my work--which I am not feeling so meritorious about right now--and I think I will be able to stand up to that much better if I am wearing something comforting that I knitted myself. Because I know I am ok at knitting, and it will be nice to have a reminder in there with me that I am ok at something.
So I am thinking shrug, a) because it's hot here, yet there is fierce air-conditioning and b) because it's smallish and I can get it done in the next two weeks, knock wood. And then Anna was saying, what should I knit next? And I said a shrug, and she said ooh maybe, and now I'm thinking it would be fun to have a shrug-along! Anyone interested? I don't know how to make fancy buttons or anything, but I can try to figure it out next week.
Edited: Turns out there already is a shrug-along. Why didn't anyone tell me? (I'm looking at you, Google.) If you're interested it's here.
Here's what I'm planning on:
It's from the Staff Projects page in the summer 2005 IK--I like it because it has a little cable detail, and is Regency-inspired which is good because my work is in the Regency period for the most part. Isn't that so dorky, that I am going to knit something because it's inspired by the Regency period? And yet I love it. It calls for Southwest Trading Co. Oasis, a soy silk, but I just might be crazy and see what happens if I try it in my new best friend Calmer.
posted by Ashley at 10:17 PM
5 Comments:
That soft orange is so pretty! I didn't know there was a shrug along either. THere is some page out there that I think Cara, aka Earth Mother, put together. If you google 2005 knit-alongs, it will come up!
Happy knitting!
So totally not dorky to knit something inspired by your dissertation; extra genius points if you can figure out a way to work that fact into the defense as support for how in love with your research you are. :-)
out of all of the Interweave shrugs, that's the only one i like. What colour are you going to use? Regency is fabulously fashionable dahling (witness Alexander McQueen), so not only will your shrug be fashionable, but your whole dissertation is.
oh, and, in case i wasn't clear, i will be shrugging. alone, or with you, or with others.
so cute! and it says: "I am a nice person who wears sweet things like shrugs, so do not be mean to my dissertation."
Good luck!
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