march 10 :: raglan rogue

i am sad to report the amount of fear i have about tweaking the rogue pattern into raglan shape. have strung yarn through these top rows for i imagine it will take more than one try to succeed. and i am not liking the voice in my head that is saying "you won't ever" i used to be a fearless knitter. and i'm determined to be one still. ah ho. especially now that i have chosen to make sleeves different color than body. the chunky highland wool color for sleeveis # 744, have forgotten what pretty heather name it had. body is my favorite red maple.

shadow's igloo has been literally hung up for a time. not fear in this case, just indecision after not being happy with the willow circle to hold the roof round, because it(the willow circle) wasn't big enough. there are beautiful long cedar roots on our hill that would work, but i am thinking that weaving wire along the edge would also work well. since spring weather has arrived here already there is no hurry for me to move onto the next step.

march 9 :: flowers

tho it looks fairly fantastic in the photo, i didn't quite like the roses knit from multi-colored noro, so i am going to try with a few other bits of stash. ..close-up of rose... also shows the variation in color in the highland wool that i find lovely .

i would like to make something this year with lots of embellishments.

will come back soon to show and tell my rogue progress.

March 7 :: this time last year

Do you ever do this, go back to see what you were up to this time last year? I was knitting a few things that failed and modeling one success, and there was this prize... Mary Oliver's spring poem, from Twelve Moons... have typed it out again tho I am not feeling as connected to the sense of possibility as I sometimes do. there are fresh yellow-green sprouting leaves everywhere here, a color I do love to knit.

I would also like to recommend her newest poetry book, Why I Wake Early.

Our library had a new knitting book this visit, new to me and the library, but it is a 2001 book called Simple Socks...uses short row technique for heels and toes which I wanted to try... (when I looked up this link, I see it is being re-published.) I got through one short row heel over the weekend, don't think this is for me, I am feeling that knit socks should have heels that are easily replaceable.

back to knitting...and waiting on official spring spring spring. ah ho.

Worm Moon (by Mary Oliver)

1

In March the earth remembers its own name.
Everywhere the plates of snow are cracking.
The rivers begin to sing. In the sky
the winter stars are sliding away; new stars
appear as, later, small blades of grain
will shine in the dark fields.

And the name of every place
is joyful.

2

The season of curiosity is everlasting
and the hour for adventure never ends,
but tonight
even the men who walked upon the moon
are lying content
by open windows
where the winds are sweeping over the fields,
over water,
over the naked earth,
into villages, and lonely country houses, and the vast cities

3

because it is spring;
because once more the moon and the earth are eloping --
a love match that will bring forth fantastic children
who will learn to stand, walk, and finally run over the surface of earth;
who will believe, for years,
that everything is possible.

4

Born of clay,
how shall a man be holy;
born of water,
how shall a man visit the stars;
born of the seasons,
how shall a man live forever?

5

Soon
the child of the red-spotted newt, the eft,
will enter his life from the tiny egg.
On his delicate legs
he will run through the valleys of moss
down to the leaf mold by the streams,
where lately white snow lay upon the earth
like a deep and lustrous blanket
of moon-fire,

6

and probably
everything
is possible.

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