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Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Almost-almost-almost done

alienor yoke
So I had this idea for a sweater, and I swatched extensively and knit it halfway in purple and then decided it should be green. Then I started it in green, and divided for the sleeves in the wrong place and frogged back, did it right, made the plain bit too long, frogged back, finally finished it, decided the sleeves were too tight, and frogged again. In terms of stitch count, I have probably knit this thing three times over. I still like it, though, and will probably be quite pleased when I can finally wear it. alienor waist

Wikipedia says AliƩnor is an alternate spelling for Eleanor of Aquitaine (because Ravelry lists one zillion projects named Eleanor), and I thought of her because the sweater seems kind of high-middle-agey, though there wasn't much in the way of knitting back then. She was a big proponent of the cult of courtly love, something DrBob has written about - well, he writes about courtly love in Spanish literature, but it was Eleanor who brought it to the French and English courts. So there you go. Can't you just hear the lutes a-twanging?

3 comments:

Kelly said...

Wowo- gorgeous!

Elemmaciltur said...

Twang the loots away! Can't wait to see this one when it's finished!

Elemmaciltur said...

BTW, you've been nominated for a Blog award. Go see on my blog.