John Cage and Fair Isle

HaveI linked to this before? I love it when people mix two things they love to make something original and seemingly so easy, so right.

http://tomofholland.com/2013/05/17/aleatoric-fair-isle-alea-iacta-est/

Aleatoric:

But wait a second: what is this “Aleatoric” when it’s at home? In musical terms, aleatoric music is “music in which some element of the composition is left to chance”.

That is a little taster to encourage you to go to the main link.

Beautiful knitting patterns from KNITSONIK

Yellow, green etc

Brown, white, green, grey etc

I am stunned by how lovely these are.

Yarn Bombing and Yarn Graffiti

I was looking up something on YouTube and these caught my eye:

Hackney

and

Houston

Knitting and knots

Taking out my knitting is a real ice breaker in a waiting room. The couple sitting opposite us asked about it, I showed what happened at the end of each row, we chatted about using YouTube to find out how to cast off.

Then we chatted about knots, sailing ones, how they are of two sorts: the type which get tighter when the line is pulled and the type which are easy to loosen quickly.

Squares

I have started on a knitting plan. Brown, red and golden squares will make up one blanket and blue, green and purple ones will make up my second blanket.

I am on my 3rd square so far. Apparently it is normal to feel tense when knitting. I had expected to feel all at one with the universe, but got a pain in my back. I shall experiment until it is no longer a problem.

The needles are quite pointy so I have sore first fingers. To relieve this I am knitting as loosely as possible. Mind you, if my hands are dry and slippery the needles slip away entirely onto my lap. Learning is a stop/start business round here.