Lingual Tremors

Sunday Morning Knitting Progress

Felted Bag, still on the needles

Bamboo Silk Scarf, ribbed pattern, completed!

For those of you who follow such things in my life: HURRAY!

At last! I have finished my dad's Advent/Lenten stole (purple is the liturgical color for both seasons). Just in time for the last Sunday in Advent. Hurray!

Berroco Soft-twist Yarn
100% silk
Size 8 needles (straight)
30 stitches
105 inches
783 rows
14 months in the making

Pattern: 
R1  Knit
R2  Knit
R3  Knit
R4  Purl
R5  K2 [P2, K2]
R6  P2 [K2, P2]
Repeat

Linky, Linky!

Seriously. Cool.  Environmentalism.  Cityworm.  Check it out!  And, make sure you see "this dirt museum."

Fellow knitters, see also the "one red worm" instructions here.

I've also linked to Naomi's blog "a little red hen" in the new & improved blogroll (look right!  it's back!).

If You Love Me, You Will Knit Me This

because I'm just not that good of a knitter. But I NEED this:

See the whole pattern here.
Hat tip: Chaos Theory

Subversive Knitting...

When I was in the seventh grade, I had an unfortunate encounter with knitting.  My Girl Scout leader, well intentioned, brought in horrible pastel yarn and needles with the intention of wanting us to learn how to knit baby blankets.  I wasn't much into babies.  At that age I either had my nose in a book or I was climbing the tree in the front yard.  I thought I'd be an astronaut or a marine biologist.  While I knew that my mother and my grandmother both knit, neither of them did so at the time.  They were both heavily involved in their careers at the time.  My grandmother was traveling the world and my mother was starting her dissertation.  So, I was bored by the very notion of knitting.  Girl Scouts didn't last much longer.

So, when I started knitting two years ago, I entered a little dubious.  By then, both my mother and my grandmother had returned to knitting, and we had collected many other people who knit along the way.  They were all cool, doing things like buying amazing yarns and making sweaters, bags, hats, and gloves.  And I couldn't participate much, so I jumped into the frey.  Two years later, oodles of hats and scarves and 2 bags later, I'm hooked.  I spend my free time in yarn shops and I have more yarn than I have time to knit.

So today, when I went to the Museum of Design to see the Radical Lace and Subversive Knitting exhibit, I was really excited by the yoking of politics and knitting.  Of course, in the meantime, radical protests like the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt had also changed my understanding of art and protest. 

The exhibit features an internationally diverse group of artists seeking to challenge traditional expectations of textile arts.  I was most excited by Althea Merback's micro-knitting on medical needles and by Sheila Pepe's installation, "Midtown."  Pepe's installation, which stretches the length of the room is two to three layers deep of floor to ceiling blue and white and black cords knitted together.  It's the single best representation of New York City ever!  I love the sensation of webs encompassing you from every direction.  It's the sense of the city I have when I walk, the interconnectedness, the all encompassing nature of the environment.

It's an excellent exhibit and one that really presented many visual and textual challenges to the traditional notions of knitting.  If you're in New York before June, it's a must see!

Some artists featured in the exhibit:

Anne Wilson

• Hildur Bjarnadóttir 
• Dave Cole
• Liz Collins
• Janet Echelman
• Sabrina Gschwandtner
• Elena Herzog
• Yoshiki Hishinuma
• Cal Lane
• Ruth Marshall
• Edward Mayer
• Cat Mazza
• Althea Merback
• Freddie Robins
• Niels van Eijk
• Erna van Sambeek
• Eugène van Veldhoven
• Henk Wolvers
• Barbara Zucker

• Good Article on Feminist Art in Feminist Forum

Is it Possible? This Thing Knits Slower Than I Do!

Well, we know what you're not supposed to do with Lite Brite pegs these days (thanks, Boston, for limiting our creativity!), but what CAN'T YOU DO WITH LEGOS?  This is seriously cool:  Thomas Johnson's Lego Knitting Machine.  Slow, but cool. 

Knitting Madness!

New Yorkers!  Head to the Museum of Arts and Design located at 40 West 53rd Street for the "Radical Lace and Subversive Knitting Exhibit" from January 25th to June 17th.

A link to the exhibit:  here.

Happy Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

Well, while slow, I am making definite progress on my knitting.  One of the fun moments of this fall was a knitting class at Downtown Yarns, where I learned how to make hats.  Here are a few of the wonderful (although slightly flawed, I'm sure) hats I made for Christmas to warm the heads of the Tremor family (modeled by the newest addition to Chez Lingual, Daphne, our green head, purchased solely for the reason of displaying this season's hats!):

As we speak, the Tremor clan is ripping open packages with hats for everyone, in custom colors.  Sadly, due to my novice ability, they are all of the same design, with the exception of Soule Mama's had (immediate left--red hat).  You can see more hats (and, for fellow knitters, notes on the hat designs and yarns) at my flickr site in the "Knitting" set. My favorite hat is the middle one, made for the Quixotic Tremor, from all natural fibers.

Scarfdom...

Pretty in pink!

And yet another scarf

which didn't photograph well as my camera doesn't do great zoom pics:

This is an easy knit, but the yarn was very cool!  Cherry Tree Hill hand-painted yarn!

Helix Scarf

A quick (!) Easter weekend project--600 stitches in row 4!

Reader Feedback

To the anonymous reader who e-mailed me off-blog:

So, you knit a scarf to match your blog's colors?

Yes, yes I did.  Call it the blog scarf...

79" Striped, Ribbed Knit!

Nope, I did not graduate from Syracuse or the University of Florida or the University of Virginia.  I just like blue and organge!  So, here it is, my first striped and ribbed project at 79" (sans fringe).  And the ribbing, up close (ignore the ugly edge where I "carried" the yarn along...don't think I'll do this on my next striped project):

Only 1 week after the blizzard...

And, check out the bloggosphere's newest star:  Knitting Momma!

Confetti Scarf--2 Threads!

Scarf or Stole? At 110", You Decide!

Maggi's Irish Wool Slub--110 inches of pure beauty!

Appliques!

Sexy Scarf

Warm and Cozy Knitting!