Thursday, March 09, 2006

Knitting my husband understands

The man reads physics texts before bed. So when I pulled out my new copy of A Treasury of Magical Knitting to cast on a Seasilk Moebius [you can just let those words dribble over you for a moment...], I showed it to him.

"Yup," he said.
I said, "this is mental."
He said, "don't try to understand it."

Which is the same advice Stephanie gave me last night. Just follow Cat Bordhi's clear instructions and don't think about it too hard. I have not the slightest idea how any human being could expand their brain sufficiently to grasp the spacial concepts required to create a Moebius Cast On and make it work. But Ms Bordhi has done it. Is "genius" too strong a word?

If I'm very lucky and this does actually work [aka I don't mess it up], I'll be knitting Seasilk/crack as I tip a Strongbow back at the Duke tomorrow night with the Team Canada folks. I figured I'd better get the hard part done tonight.

Friday. Blessed Friday. Some weeks it seems further away than others.