Have you ever wanted to have a skill but didn't have enough interest to practice or put effort into learning that skill? That's me and photography (and drawing and painting and visual art in general). I like to pretend I'm good at photography, a pretense aided by the panorama function on my phone, but I can't stage anything to save my life and I know nothing about lighting.
As a knitter who reads a lot of well-photographed knitting blogs, this can sometimes be frustrating. Then I discover the High-Dynamic Range Imaging feature on my phone and I can trick myself back into thinking that I'm a photographic savant.
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| Look at that shadow/light composition. I'm great at this. |
I'm no longer surrounded by that panoramic view from above. I've returned home to the warm merino embrace of Knit Picks' Shadow Lace in Nocturnal Heather. It is bluer than the picture. It is also soft and it also reminds me of the person (or rather, character) that inspired me to add Travelling Woman to my queue. The explanation for that is for a later post, however. The explanation is very nerdy and ridiculous. You have been warned.
The East Gable Shawl is...progressing. The ellipsis makes it seem like I don't enjoy working on it, which is incorrect...but not exactly. It's not that it isn't gorgeous, it is. It isn't even that the yarn is taking longer to transition than I expected.
It's just that the shawl is the same 16 repeats, over and over again. While I'm sure this will turn out beautifully, it isn't the most interesting pursuit. I'm being tempted by Travelling Woman, even though it seems like there's a similar situation there.
Currently I'm still loyal to the East Gable, even if my loyalty is largely motivated by my resistance to the idea of winding 440 yards of silk weight into a ball. We'll see how long that resistance lasts.
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