etc.

Knitters will know what I’m talking about. Sometimes you read a pattern and it makes no sense at all and no matter how hard you try, your mind’s eye can’t see the stitches described transforming themselves into the knitted garment in the pattern’s picture. Lady Eleanor is my faith-based knitting project du jour. I’ve been admiring the stole all over knit-blogland (note: faith-based knitting is easier when others have gone before you and been successful), so I know it can be done. Last week, my copy of Scarf Style arrived and I cast on. On faith.

This is Silk Garden #86, which astute readers with better memories than mine, might recall was the yarn I used for Klaralund, lo those many months ago. Well, I’m not sure I ever did tell you, but Klaralund, once seamed, ended up too small for me by some bizarre error of gauge or pattern, I can’t remember which. Of course, once I’d done all that seaming, I didn’t have the heart to rip it all out, so I left her folded on a shelf and told myself that if I were to ever find another pattern for the yarn, I’d rip then. Which is what I did last week, during a rare mid-week day off. I’m not sure how many of you have ripped a Silk Garden garment from beginning to end, it’s not an easy yarn to frog, it breaks easily and sheds ridiculously, but press on I did, with eager anticipation urging me on.

So, yes, entrelac is faith-based knitting, but it’s easier than you can ever imagine, and plenty of fun to knit, especially with a lovely yarn like Silk Garden. And, oh, the texture! When I held it up to show the mister, he said, “cool. It’s 3D.”