Im Lauf der Reise erfährt man, wieso eigentlich Alice Starmore als militante Verteidigerin ihrer Rechte gilt - und dass sie eigentlich längst damit aufgehört hat - was es mit der historischen Figur Mary Tudor ungefähr auf sich hat, wieso Golf nicht funktioniert wie stricken (man kann einen daneben gegangenen Put nicht aufribbeln) und all sowas. Sie erzählt das alles großartig, finde ich, ich hab wirklich Spaß dabei, obwohl ich noch nicht fertig bin damit. Ich fühle mich so sehr verstanden und renne ständig mit dem Buch in der Hand rum, lesend, nickend und lachend.
Was ich ja sehr spannend finde, sie ist auch bei ravelry und hat (natürlich musste ich sofort nachschauen) dort nur eine Mary Tudor eingestellt, der sie einen äußerst unfeinen Namen gegeben hat, übersetzt soviel wie "Tritt in den Hintern". Immerhin, letzterer ist fertig, das lässt mich für den Rest des Buches hoffen.
Einzig bedauerlich ist, dass ich nicht lesen und dieses Ding stricken kann.
Today there's merely a tiny picture, although I'd have to show a bit ... Today I'm talking about my present book: "The Sweater Quest - my year of knitting dangarously" by Adrienne Martini. This book tells enchantingly about the journey of the author of knitting Mary Tudor. The latter is a pattern from "Tudor Roses" by Alice Starmore. Martini accompanied herself for an entire year knitting this cardigan. Remarkably this woman has two children, is working and writing. And she didn't possess "Tudor Roses" when starting (offered for stunning $934 at amazon.com, UK, Germany and France don't offer it at all; so Ms Martini and myself didn't do too bad with $150 each for purchasing the book), she had to collect the right yarn (the yarn knitted there is discontinued and "Old Gold" isn't even available as a substitute) and she wasn't experienced in knitting stranded with both hands. Being a thrower she started knitting a hat with her left hand in order to practise this technique. This hat, she threatens, will adorn the head of the next family member loosing their's.
In the course of the journey we learn about Alices Starmore's reputation as a militant defender of her rights - and that she stopped doing that a long time ago - who about is this historic figure Mary Tudor, why golf doesn't work like knitting (you can't frog a bad put) and other such things. She tells all this magnificentrly for me, I really have fun with this book even though I haven't finished yet. I feel very much understood and run around reading, nodding and laughing all the time.
Remarkably enough Ms. Martini is also at Ravelry. There in her projects (of course I had to instantly look at them) you can find a Mary Tudor with a quite rude name, which I will not utter here ... After all this one's finished, which gives me hope for the rest of the book.
And what am I doing with that? Well, hrrm, I started Whalsay by Ann Feitelsen, short clipping of the chart is given here. This is my kind of quest with an adventurous collection of colours (hopefully lightblue, orange, cyan and dusty pink will match somehow). I had to do this, even if winter season's already closed. It is fun after all to get lost in the development of colours, even if it is veeeery slow knitting.
The only thing commisurated with is the fact that I can't knit and read those two together.
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