Fair Isles' Imperfectionism

[muninnhuginn]

Seem to remember once hearing, so it's all Radio 4's fault really, that knitters in the Fair Isles when producing their characteristic sweaters used always to knit in one mistake--deliberately. So that all the bad thoughts and feelings they had during the creation of the garment would be able to escape. The alternative was ill-luck for the recipient of the jumper.

[Of course, all this goes against the grain of the ravens' habit of not allowing anything to go out until all known errors are fixed. We just know that letting one through knowingly adds to the one we've missed. So that makes two errors at least.]

How do we knit an error into the dress we're sewing? [Especially against our better judgment. And knowing how imperfect our sewing is.] Happy enough, maybe, wearing our own sorrows and ill-thinking, inflicting them on LL seems a bit unfair. Summer dresses ought to come with built-in sunshine, the scent of high days and holy days.

And all the foregoing blather indicates merely that the ravens' near infallible on-the-verge-of-tears-for-unknown-reasons mood as usual presaged--more snow.

Could do with one of those sweaters....

Comments

[marypcb.livejournal.com]

also Persian carpets, because only God is perfect

[muninnhuginn]

But not Persian cats, who know they're purrfect too!

[pickledginger.livejournal.com]

If there's not an imperfection in the dress by the time you're done, then you *are* one of the gods! But should you decline to accept that nomination, you could always insert an uneven stitch into the hem ...

[muninnhuginn]

Forgot, and then decided not to go back to, a French Knot in the embroidery on one of the sleeves. That'll do it.

[pickledginger.livejournal.com]

Embroidered sleeves? Wow! Sounds ambitious.

[muninnhuginn]

A handful of lazy daisies and some French knots on the sleeves and at the centre front of the skirt. Nothing too ambitious. Will go entirely unappreciated by LL (actually I'm doing her a slight disservice: she did once, unprompted, thank me for buying her a pink jumper and for making her a skirt) but always impresses the staff at nursery.

[pickledginger.livejournal.com]

Make sure you get pictures to impress her with later. :-)