Now is that knitting while upside-down or knitting triangles the wrong way round? Keep reading.
By some mistake of the commercial gods I received a Saturday NY Times, (Sept 5) which apparently nowadays comes with half of Sunday’s. So for the first time in years I saw the Book Review section. (Yes, I could have seen it on-line but I didn’t bother.) And I have to tell you I was shocked at how it has deteriorated – (or have I grown?)
Azalea doesn’t read thrillers or books on politics – there is enough in the daily paper – so skipped the first two reviews. The next is “a life of Françoise d’Aubigné, whom the libidinous Louis XIV chose to help deliver him from sin”. The entire page consists of a summary of the woman’s life, by a Professor of French literature (from my college, alas). Not one word on the quality of the book! I might not have noticed this had I not recently listened to Love and Louis the Fourteenth by the always admirable Antonia Fraser, which covers the same topic as well as all his other women. Is this new one better? worse? equal? It’s a book review, isn’t it?
Then there is the ‘review’ of The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker. The writer does consider the ideas in the book, as well as summarizing. “The narrator…is a man trying…to write an introduction to a book of poetry.” So theories of poesy and poets are legitimately discussed . But I ended up with no idea whether I, who am completely unable to read current poetry, could read this book, or whether one needs to be familiar with the poets mentioned. Am I mistaken in thinking that a review should be a guide for potential readers?
On knitting: being plagued with back troubles I spent the winter knitting upside down (lying supine on my spine, so to say! with my hands in the air)
And guess what? I have now knitted myself into carpal tunnel syndrome in both wrists! How’s that for irony?
So here is the latest project that is to blame, the triangle socks. Really fun to do, since each row is different. (And I had to do it over and over, not reading the instructions right.)
(A lot of ‘alliteration’s artful aid’ in this post, no?)
(Not to mention parentheses : )
top view
Sorry, this is under-exposed. Notice that the yellow band by the toe is a different size on each one – shouldn’t be there at all according to the picture. (shrug)
inner side
outer side
The line down the variegated section is an increase within one ‘triangle’ while some of the yellow and purple bands are actually two pieces. No sewing, all the pieces are picked up from each other (so to say!)
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