August 29, 2005
Martini Landscapes
Thank goodness for friends who come over and drag you away from your computer and make you knit and enjoy a nice martini while romping with the Large Ones (Harvey and Grazzi). This produces pictures:
The Landscape Shawl. Don't let it fool you-- it is beautifully simple yet effective. But that simplicity can trip you up. You have to watch what you're doing!
The idea of different stitch patterns in V's within V's for a V-shaped shawl was pure genius on the part of Evelyn Clark. It would be really pretty, I think, to take that same idea and use different lace patterns within each V. If you didn't want to think up your own lace patterns or consult a stitch dictionary, you could cobble a shawl together using existing shawl patterns.
For example, Sharon Miller's Birch is knit as a triangle, and so are many other lace shawls. You could just take a portion of each chart, add a yarnover, k2tog at the end, and go on to a different chart. Buy the landscape shawl pattern if you don't already have it, substitute lace patterns, chart it out and voila!
A little bit of Ireland came back to us last week in the form of four martini glasses we had ordered while at the Waterford factory. These are the Seahorse martinis, even though our pattern is Lismore, because the Seahorse's are much larger!
Here, for comparison at the left is one of our formerly favorite martini glasses which, as anyone who has ever drank from them realizes, holds quite a large martini. On the right is the new Waterford Seahorse martini. Which one delivers the most delicious martini? You be the judge.
You are the Queen of the variegated shawl. I don't know how you do it, but somehow you always manage to find patterns that work exceptionally well with handpainted yarn (Wool Peddler, Keepsake, and now Landscape.)
Posted by: Beth S. on August 29, 2005 11:14 AMWhichever glass you are holding, dear... I can't manage to enjoy drinking out of a martini glass at all, though I admire their look quite a lot. I leak from the sides.
Posted by: Laura J on August 29, 2005 03:31 PMOh, those new glasses are most excellent! What kind of vodka are we serving, madame?
Lolly (who believes that, for the perfect martini, merely *thinking* about the vermouth is really quite enough vermouth)
Posted by: Lolly on August 29, 2005 06:28 PMYou're making me thirsty!!!
Posted by: Jon on August 30, 2005 10:34 AMThe heck with the glasses----as long as they hold liquid, that's the important thing. But that yarn is absolutely delicious! Those colors look like they were made just for me! Now if I only knew how to knit....wait a minute, silly me, like I NEED another hobby.....