while i've been out here on montauk, i've been able to re-read one of my favorite books. it's the third book of patricia reilly giff's nory ryan trilogy: water street. it's about a young girl named bird who lives on water street with the brooklyn bridge building up right outside her front door. the first two books are: nory ryan's song, and maggie's door. nory ryan and her family live during the irish potato famine and their story is how they struggle to survive and make it to america.
morgana just finished it and it's her favorite also.
we also just finished reading morning girl, by michael dorris. this is another of my favorite books about a young taino girl and her family living on an island in the bahamas in 1492. both books are written in prose, but the writing is so beautiful that they read like poems to me.
the knitting project that i've been working on so diligently is the feather and fan shawl that morgana's ballet teacher's mother commissioned from me. she plans to wear it at her younger daughter's wedding on july 27th; that is if i finish it on time! (which i had better do, so i should stop writing this post and start knitting again!)
i did two border rows top and bottom, with a two stitch border on either side and the 18 stitch multiple repeated six times.
the yarn is alchemy haiku in silver and it looks incredibly yummy.
i have to admit that i do prefer working with rowan kidsilk haze. the haiku two ply comes undone too easily. but, as morgana says, it's awfully scrumptious looking!
. . especially blowing in the wind by the sea . . (and now back to knitting!)
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san inspired me to write this post with the yarn along she follows:
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san inspired me to write this post with the yarn along she follows:
How lovely that you and the girls can share some reading together.
ReplyDeleteThe shawl is absolutely gorgeous. I can definitely concur that you must have the patience of a saint knitting such an expanse in two ply and as for the deadline, no pressure there eh?!!
Big Hugs to you San xx
So many new books I have never hear of! Thanks for mentioning them. How can you keep knitting in the summer? The beach must really help, I assume! What a lovely shawl! I hope it will be ready for the wedding.
ReplyDeletehello san, hello eva, i finished the shawl!! it's blocking right now. i can't wait to take it up tomorrow. it's such a light yarn, eva, that i don't mind working with it on warm days. now i'd like to work on a block for my mom's afghan that morgana has been knitting on for the past year. i also have two skeins of beautiful seacell yarn to make a shawl for a woman i know in santa barbara who lost her house in the tea fire a few years ago. and finally, i have six skeins of lamb's pride cotton fleece to make myself a ballet t-shirt . . so many plans! so little time! there's also the house cleaning that MUST be accomplished before september . . ay yi yi. always so much to do. and that's a good thing, eh?
ReplyDeleteCongratulations! You must feel very relieved, but probably also proud that you managed to get it done on time. And good luck with all the other projects!
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