synestheticknits

the dreaded time of year.. the end of summer. bah. we did okay though... june: 1. outdoor concert at waterplace park in providence. 2. at the beach in matunuck, ri. 3. sunset. july: 4. the columbus theatre on broadway in providence. 5. the newport folk festival. august: 6. the zipper, at the washington county fair. 7. cape cod seashells. 8. gondola rides during waterfire. 9. the end. im memory: an end of summer treasury. i'll get over it soon enough.

so what i wanted was to knit with some handspun. i also wanted one of those scarf-type things that you wear around your neck like a cowl, and can pull up over your head like a hood. this did not end up to be one of those things. just means there's more knitting to do, is all. never a bad thing. but i got to knit some handspun, and really, this is something that one just needs to do that every so often. there's something that feels more real and dirty about it, you know? in the best possible way. lumps and fluffs and lanolin, a bit of hay every so often. real life, real yarn. i had a particular skein picked out. a big reason for it being that it has been in my stash for so so so long. embarrassingly long. years. i was never quite sure how to do it justice. now was the time. after much swatching, i found that the best stitch pattern for this would be.. garter. just garter stitch. on big needles, for some nice drape. but it wouldn't really look, or stret...