Have I mentioned that our friend Abigail is allergic to wool? This really is a shame, as that cuts out a lot of possible yarn. However, it doesn't stop her from knitting, don't you worry.
Abigail was in denial for quite some time about this wool allergy, if you ask me. Sometime last year I finished up a pair of socks for her when she started getting hives and having a hard time breathing every time she picked them up. I think at that point she also had started the Lady Eleanor Entrelac Stole from Scarf Style with some Silk Garden that her mom had picked out, but I may have the timeline confused.
At any rate, she kept putting off dealing with the stole; I could tell she really wanted to finish it because it was for her mom, but she also was having trouble. To top it off, I think she felt bad having someone else work on it, despite the fact that I offered and really did mean it when I said I had been wanting to try Entrelac.
Well then, one day Anabel went to Abigail's house and just stole the bag of yarn, the project, and the book out from underneath Abigail and brought it to me.
And then I let it sit; I couldn't say why. But after my triumphant victory over the sock yarn yesterday, I pulled it out and got going:
Abigail had done up to those last 2 squares on the upper right of that shot (the bright blue ones that are half folded over the chair. The rest I did yesterday -- pretty much a skein worth of Silk Garden. There are 4 skeins left I believe, and I need to save some of that to do the fringe (but let's not talk about that -- maybe I'll buy Abigail some gloves and a face mask to finish that part up).
And, lest any of you think that Abigail didn't try valiantly to finish the stole, here's how much is done right now:
wow, that is so gorgeous. i can totally understand the drive to finish it for her mom; my Sarcelle is hogging all of my knitting time right now because i want to have it DONE and BLOCKED and WRAPPED when i see my mom on the 12th. so sweet of you gals to help her out!
and no, puh-lease don't tell me how long it took you to finish Sarcelle, i need to think positive right now ;)
Posted by: al at September 26, 2006 9:44 PMwow, it's gorgeous...and must be terrible to be a knitter AND allergic to wool
Posted by: polly at September 26, 2006 10:40 PMWhat an excellent friend! I hope to soon have some good news for Abigail, though....
Posted by: Nathania at September 27, 2006 6:28 AMThat is just beautiful! Poor Abigail, that's just plain mean mother nature!
Posted by: Carol at September 27, 2006 7:56 AMA wool allergy for a knitter seems so much more unfair than say, a food allergy. Lady E is so charming!
Posted by: Gina at September 27, 2006 7:59 AMThe Silk Garden looks beautiful in entrelac! What size needles were you using?
By the way, I'm on the even section of my Sarcelle!
Posted by: Pauline at September 27, 2006 10:10 AMMmmmm, Noro + Entrelac = luscious. I swear the yarn & the knitting style were made for each other.
Posted by: not an artist at September 27, 2006 12:14 PMthat's absolutely beautiful! how many skeins of silk garden and what size needles are you using? i'm in love with the pattern and i thought about using silk garden, but i just wasn't sure how everything would work out... aparently it's amazing!
great job and happy knitting!
I think I started the stole before the socks. My thinking went like this: silk garden is only 10% wool, so it should only bother me about 10% as much as all wool would. I am not clear what my thinking on the socks was. I think it was, "I've had this sock yarn since I started knitting, I am just going to power through it!" Ha.
Wow, when you photograph it like that it looks like I made lots of progress. I thought it was smaller than that.
I think I was assuming 1 or 2 balls of yarn for the fringe. I was going to stop whenI had 2 left and see how it looked. I probably don't need 2 for the fringe but I didn't want to have too few balls. I have a face mask and a box of latex gloves already. I should be able to cope with the fringe with that. (Or perhaps I'm still a little bit in denial.)
Thanks again for doing this, you rock. :)
Posted by: Abigail at September 27, 2006 2:33 PMThat looks fabulous, I really fancy having a go at entrelac and the silk garden just makes it.
Posted by: Jo at September 27, 2006 3:41 PM1. Poor Abigail! But she can always try her hand at hemp, cotton, bamboo, and silk!
2. You are awesome. How kind of you to take up her knitting so she can get relief from her allergies!
3. I love those colors so!
Posted by: Kit at September 27, 2006 6:13 PM