k1 (knit one) blog: Taking a Break

August 01, 2004

Taking a Break

sweater_workshop_sample1
I decided to take a break to show the progress on my sweater sampler from The Sweater Workshop. I just finished the short rows. I may have had more, but as you can see, I've been revamping this blog. I liked the yellow/green/orange thing. It was different. Maybe I'll do something like that again. But these days I just need to breathe. You know?

Where was I?

Oh yeah, back to the sampler, I think I may have thought that the sampler would be a little smaller from the picture in the book. Now I can see why someone used it as a knitting bag and another person as a dolly dress! It looks like it will be at least big enough for an interesting medium-sized knitting bag. I do get so stingy on the pics, don't I? I'm waiting to see how much all these pics come out to be since it's not in my account profile yet. If I believed in knocking on wood and all that, I'd do it right now!

Every now and then I just stop to read the book before continuing because there are directions given for flat knitting along with those for knitting in the round. If I had a complaint about the book, that would be the only one. I get mixed up sometimes while reading, and I don't want that happening while I'm knitting. Hence, the break. In the directions, I believe the next segment is a pocket or something for a sweatshirt while it's totally different for a cardigan. I'll keep you posted. It is a fun project though even if it isn't going to be a recognizable article by anyone but a Sweater Workshop owner!

Feeling a Little Turtely Today?

Sundays are usually slow days before the bustle of Monday. So in honor of everything slow, I took a pic of Donatello.

Donatello2
He's just chillin' in his freshly cleaned and then freshly soiled again tank. He was a little fussy today. Cleaning his tank meant I actually had to *touch* him. That's a big no-no for new baby turtles that aren't familiar with their owners yet. He wasn't happy about that at all. They are able to see so I do believe he knows who I am though. He trusts me enough to come out from under his aquarium log from time to time when I come to the glass. Usually that means he is hungry. So he knows the hand that feeds him. That's for sure! But, for all intents and purposes today, Donatello, or Donnie as my son calls him, was very irritable. Usually he eats from a can. But today he had a couple of crickets since he was in the backyard. He caught some sun too!

Donatello
Poor baby. He's a little camera shy, I think. Hope he's in better spirits tomorrow.

Passage of Time

bpark_painting
I am a painter primarily. This is a painting of mine that I have been living with for about a year now. When I say "live with," I mean I've had it around...moved it here and there...put it up, took it down...glanced at it when I passed by it...studied it sometimes when I was curious about it...thought about making revisions and then deciding not to over and over again (you get the picture). Sometimes I have paintings that I really like right off and after living with it for a month, I hate it and can't figure out what about it it was that I thought it had. Others I put away somewhere because I didn't like it. But when I come back to it, something catches my eye. I decided to post this painting because it's the first time I've lived with a painting that long in uncertainty and I just made up my mind that I like it. Usually my paintings tell me that my goal appears to be duplicating what's in front of me though I'm usually not after that at all. Or at least it never starts off that way. This painting did seem to capture something of the park without doing that. It's very simplified I think. I like that. It reminds me of how I like to keep things. Simple. And the color palette, though mostly green seems to be slightly different than what I normally paint. Still haven't put my finger on what that difference is. But I like that too. Anyway, I thought I'd share. Maybe some day, I'll be able to work some of what I seek to capture in my paintings into my knitting? Hey, it could happen. That sensibility is definitely working its way into my blog. We shall see.

Happy knitting tonight!

For Meredith

Editing here: After reading Meredith's comment, I tried to make this pic larger but it became, as one of my graphic design major friends used to say, "pixelated." Not sure how to fix that. Of course, after re-reading the post, it dawned on me that I don't have a painting for reference here of what a previous painting for me might look like. When I first started this blog there was an album for my paintings but I took it off. I doubt I'll create another. But, since this blog talks about a painting I decided to add a painting for reference.

beach_rowhouse_painting
This painting was done about a year before the painting above. I liked it because it was simple with some complexities to keep it interesting. I like working in that kind of mode. Maybe some of you will see what I mean by my further simplifying in the more recent painting. I think I mulled over it for so long because I felt like I may have been oversimplifying. In the end, I decided I liked it. They both work for me. But I am gravitating to the more recent one because for me and my way of working, it is different and unusual. You be the judge. You know what they say, "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."

Posted by stacey at August 1, 2004 06:48 PM

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