April 25, 2007
Sentimental Journey
Ah, I see Cookie was brave enough to ask the “Great Brie Debate” question. But are we brave enough to answer, even though this question has haunted us ever since we posted it, no thanks to some local smart-aleck cheese-lovers? Heck, yeah!
The Great Brie Debate had to do with a blog poll we posted a few years ago about whether or not one is supposed to eat brie rind. TMK and I staunchly declare that we would rather eat post-game, unwashed socks retrieved from the bottom of a baseball team’s laundry hamper than eat brie rind. The rest of the world says we are unsophisticated louts and, yes, brie rind should be eaten. Needless to say, we lost by a landslide in the poll but have continued in our loutish ways regardless. Neanderthals unite!
Julie was curious about my being beaned by the Mariner Moose. This has to do with the very first Stitch & Pitch baseball game, held here in Seattle in 2005. During the seventh-inning stretch, the team mascot, the Mariner Moose, came up to where the knitters were and threw balls of yarn to at us. I wasn’t paying that much attention since I was, you know, knitting, and kept getting beaned in the head. I don’t know what was more embarrassing, my girly inability to catch a ball of yarn, or the fact that the balls were being thrown by a grown man who makes a living dancing around in a moose suit.
Since the picture on the High Mesa Cardigan pattern is completely crapola (what gives with that, by the way?), I schlepped around the Net to see if there might be a better representation out there, and stumbled across this. These images aren't the best but they show the knit-ish, purl-ish, gansey-ish, Southwestern-ish motif I mentioned and give you a better idea of what the sweater is all about.
Work on the sweater has slowed considerably, though, since I seem to have developed The Pinky, the bastard child of The Claw. I suspect The Pinky is my family’s genetically unavoidable arthritis rearing its head for the first time but I’m still trying to convince myself that a little less knitting on a 177-stitch sweater for a couple of days will make the problem completely clear up. It will, won’t it? Won’t it?
Speaking of pink, this weekend I tweaked my “Change the Color to Fit the Charity” Ribbon Hat and churned out another hat for my employee's cancer walk, again using a basic, 90-stitch roll-brim hat pattern.
Here is the new chart, if anyone be interested:
Posted by Ryan at April 25, 2007 01:38 PM
Not to start the debate again, but I started eating the rind when I realized how much brie I was wasting trying to get it off. That's a violation of the 11th commandment: "Thou shalt not waste brie or guacamole."
Cute hat.
I love the Mooooooooose! I need to get a stuffed one, methinks. While I appreciate that you don't want to get beaned in the head (with anything, even if yarn is soft), you kind of have to admire someone who can actually throw with any degree of accuracy in that outfit. The antlers alone have to throw you off balance, you know?
Suddenly, I want a pic of the Mariner's Moose spinning on a Bosworth Moosie. Or is that a little too, I dunno...cannibalistic?
Posted by: moiraeknittoo on April 25, 2007 03:45 PMo.0
Ryan, I think you must have some freaks reading your blog because eating the rind is just wrong and icky. Thank you for explaining... I think. 0.o
I hope that pinky feels better soon.
Posted by: Cookie on April 25, 2007 03:46 PMI just ran into TMK at the gym! Seattle's such a small town.
Posted by: Jessica on April 25, 2007 04:06 PMbrie rind is blech. I get the kind that comes in a container, sans rind. sacrilege, I know, but better than eating rind!
Posted by: jen on April 25, 2007 04:12 PMThat Moose takes a nerve! :)
And slap a Neanderthal label on me, baby, because I wouldn't eat brie rind...ever. I can't even think of a way to end that announcement other than "ever." The cheese is delightful; the rind is totally gross. But my very favorite cheese is Havarti anyway!
Posted by: Julie on April 25, 2007 04:25 PMI'll be a Neanderthal right along with you and TMK. The rind is disgusting. Ewwwwwww.
Posted by: Lisa In Oregon on April 25, 2007 08:27 PMBring on the Brie rind! I am also told that it should not be baked into a pastry or any time.
Posted by: Angie on April 25, 2007 09:35 PMMaybe if you deep fried the brie rind into crunchy little slivers to sprinkle?
Posted by: aarlene on April 25, 2007 10:02 PMI'm a bit behind on the blog comments! Happy blogiversary!
I usually don't eat the rind either but at the monthly knitting thing I had some cambazola rind and it was really tasty. I hate to admit it but...Ok, maybe I've gone certifiable?
TMK - thanks to you(basically it is all your fault!) - my wheel arrives TOMORROW! I want to play sick especially since I saw the pics of the merino/tencel and the yak/alpaca!
The hat is very cool. I love it and I would love to knit it for a friend of mine.
Take care! See you guys Monday night?
Posted by: Naomi on April 25, 2007 10:21 PMthat pink ribbon hat is a fantastic idea. there are so many cancer sufferers out there.
LOL hilarious story about the Moose at the Stitch n Pitch game. I just noticed that there's a link on the stitch 'n pitch site for folks to purchase their tickets already. this will be my first game; can't wait! :-D
Posted by: anna on April 26, 2007 12:10 AMAbout that Pinky Pain...I sympathize, knitting along with bulky yarn.
Consider this (you're aware that I'm a newly- converted apostle of EZ, and am crazed with quoting her wisdom, no? So please forgive me for my slavish quote):
From "Knitting Without Tears": "Tight knitters lead a hard and anxious life. They grab needles and wool so tightly that great strain is put upon their hand muscles..."
This was a Great Insight for me, and my tennis elbow is resolving as I consciously relax as I whack at bulky yarn. Could this be the same solution for your poor Pinky?
Wonderful hat, brilliant design!
Posted by: Gail on April 26, 2007 01:05 AMvery cool! i may have to make some.
Posted by: marti on April 26, 2007 01:01 PMI like the rind, too. It gives the cheese its distinctive flavor. Cute hat, good design.
Posted by: Joan in Reno on April 26, 2007 01:22 PMI've noticed my hands get sore if I switch to larger or much smaller needles than my comfort zone. If I've been on a sock kick, and then work on a bulky project, my left hand gets sore. After a few weeks of working on 7s or up, sock needles make my right index finger crampy.
Hand exercises really save me.
Posted by: Lia on April 26, 2007 02:59 PMAdd me to the list of new readers who just finished reading all 4 years of your blog posts! And I enjoyed every minute of it. I am knitting a scarf for the Dulaan cause, hopefully only the first of many I can contribute.
My family lived in Seattle for four years about 14 years ago, and it's fun when you mention the places & sites I'm familiar with.
Anyway, I look forward to reading your blog from here on out!
Posted by: Traci on April 26, 2007 05:25 PMBut was it good yarn the Moose was throwing? And did you get to keep the stuff he beaned you with?
Posted by: Ruth on April 27, 2007 10:58 AM