Prologue: A Ravelry fun fling. This is a travelogue of sorts featuring one of the 50 sets of stitch markers which were made and sent to volunteer hosts in each of the 50 U.S. states. Each host takes photos showing the markers about their area of the state (while knitting something with them, of course). When their project is completed they send the markers on to the next eager host.
I am the third host in Virginia.
My first post acknowledged their arrival and wondered what their stay would include... what joys, what agonies?
My second post, a week and a half later:
I was, apparently, psychic when I asked what agonies might await the markers… I hadn’t planned what project they would participate in (not knowing exactly when they would arrive), so the first few days were spent deciding what item would knit up quick enough, but not too fast, be interesting to watch develop and still fun to do… and needed markers. And then, just as I was poised on the precipice of a decision…
The Plague Struck Me Down (cue the morosely maleficent music)…
The view from the couch for several days…
The view from the bedside table....
As I felt a little better I sipped chicken soup and ate Ben&Jerry's (neither of which I could taste sadly) and the markers browsed through inspiration with me…
I finally felt able to consider knitting again, and decided on the appropriate project, the simplest but prettiest of loose lace scarves, but the fever and the headache made it impossible to concentrate. Cast on and rip, cast on and rip… Drastic measure had to be taken…
An icepack wrapped around the head can do wonders for your ability to cast on.
Next… the markers venture out of doors!
1 comment:
That is the tallest icepack I've ever seen. Hope you are all better now and knitting whatever project you picked. Can't wait to see it.
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