Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Inspiration

The grey henley was coming along nicely.  Then I saw something that derailed my plans a bit:

 







This sleeve on the arm of a friend at the Angel Choir practice, last Monday morning, was just so pretty that I could not resist.  The stripes are from the elbow until about halfway down the forearm.


Thus, I went online...



And bought some pretty colors.

It will be enough to make at least three sweaters with stripey sleeves.  Her sweater had red trim at the bottom edge, as well as around the edges of the sleeves and at the neckband.  I used the bright turquoise that I originally bought to make Pocoyo hats for the boys, but we won't be needing those this year.


 


And then I also bought myself these teeny little 12 inch circular needles. I feel very silly knitting with them, you almost have to hold them between thumb and forefinger, and I am not sure they save me any time.  I actually like knitting with double points, and if I do not get used to these soon I think I will go back to them.

 

As I am still slugging through A Canticle for Leibowitz, I thought I should document some of the books that my fifth grader has been reading this year. (Many are only e-books, so I could not capture all of them.) These were for "school", she can choose anything she likes to read over week-ends or when her book for the week is done.
  

The books on the left are those that she has to read before the end of the school year.  She loves reading and reads very fast, with incredible recall, so we decided that this year we will simply let her read as much as possible, keeping book reports simple and focusing on exposure to literature rather than on reporting and analysis. 



And this was just this morning, under the old oak tree.

I am linking to Ginny's yarn along, soon I will figure out how to add that button...

10 comments:

  1. I read "Canticle for Liebowitz" several years ago for our now defunct reading group. I love the writing. The book, well, it was different to say the least, but I loved the writing. Did I say that already? The word arrangements. The way Lazerus meandered throughout the book. But the ending? Bizarre. Never met an ending like it. And I like your colored sleeves.

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  2. Oh my, I soo want a sweater with stripy sleeves. What a fantastic idea.

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  3. I think a striped arm sweater is one of the best ideas I have heard. I am with you on the little circular needles and would rather use dpn's!
    Happy Yarn Along.

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  4. Love the stripy armed sweater! The colours mix so well with the grey.

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  5. Oh my I love the stripes too! You are so clever to buy the wool to incorporate your own. I know I can not really manage those short circulars and do much better on dpns. Your knitting is beautiful Emma, and your view is spectacular. I love old oaks.

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  6. I forgot to say how lovely to have such an interested reader.

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  7. Oh the stripes will look wonderful on this. Your 5th grader has some winning books there - I think we have a copy of practically all of those except the Red Fairy book. I wish my two younger boys would read more avidly.

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    1. You will not see me posting a pile of books in a post about my boy (8) either! Not soon, anyway. The Red Fairy Book is free on the Kindle (all of them are, I think), but I have to improvise endings when I read from them. Who ends with "and then the wolf ate Little Red Riding Hood"?!

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  8. Those stripes are fantastic--I want some now.
    Wonderful that your daughter is such a great reader--I see many old favorites in those stacks!

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    1. It is wonderful - I get to have a second literary upbringing, many of these are completely new to me having grown up elsewhere. Yankee Doodle Boy, for instance, was not prescribed reading... She also read "The Witch of Blackbird Pond", I loved it! I did not even know about the Little House series. How do you grow up not reading those??

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