Mitering Mary Tudor

I've joined a reading challenge! Eco-Challenge at Chris' Book-a-rama. I like that the rules say between 1-5 books and I can justify my choices with a spirited debate. Starts May 1 through Sept 30th.

I've gone from saying "Cool" to saying "Excellent." Not so much in a Ted & Bill Adventure way but more in a mad professor style. What I want to know is why? Am I going to start cooing  "darling" soon?

In knitting news, stupid mitered corner. Evidently you're supposed to pick up the edge stitches of the body and miter the corner of of the buttonhole band while you're attaching it.

Somehow, I don't think this is right.

She has a "marked stitch" at the end that I read as it's knit together with a picked up stitch from the body but then I still have only the one marked stitch and I'm supposed to be adding five stitches to the band. Shouldn't there be slipping in there? And picking up of more stitches?

It's the mitering one side and picking up the edge of the already knit part that's confounding me. I can miter a corner while I'm knitting the whole thing but half done? Argh. Any suggestions? (Not including setting it on fire. I'm too close to being done).

READING: I've been reading The Periodic Table by Primo Levi - I ran across it in a used bookstore Thursday night and it’s just fabulous so far. It’s the semi autobiographical novel of his life as an Italian Jewish chemist up to and during WWII (so far) and he’s done the fascinating twist of sectioning off pieces of his life using various periodic elements as the anchor to those memories.

                    Monday

Is anything sadder than a train
That leaves when it’s supposed to,
That has only one voice,
Only one route?
There’s nothing sadder.

Except perhaps a cart horse,
Shut between two shafts
And unable even to look sideways.
Its whole life is walking.

And a man? Isn’t a man sad?
If he lives in solitude a long time,
If he believes time has run its course,
A man is a sad thing too.

–Primo Levi
January 17, 1946
From Collected Poems
Faber and Faber, London, 1988.

Comments

[Cookie]

Wool won't burn.

I'm just sayin'...

xo

[melanie]

Good to know, thanks, Cookie -
will you list the books for the challenge? Even though I suck at challenges, never EVER finish them, I love to read other peoples' lists.

[Chris]

Marina will know the answer to that mitering thingie!

[marylou]

Does she miter the other corner separately and have you sew them? Can't tell from the picture, but really, back away from the lighter.

[Marina]

I'm glad I changed mine into a tunic!

[kmkat]

No opinion on the mitered corner (that requires far more brains than I have available), but do let us know when you start spouting, "Fabulous!" at every passing attraction.

[Aim]

Ooooh, yes time for a break if thoughts of pyrocide are surfacing! Walk away, walk away
=D

[bev]

Love the poem! It is truly "excellent". And "dahling", don't take the scissors to your mitered corner. Not a good thing, just ask me...

[Amy]

Great poem.

[Geraldine]

Of course you aren't setting any knitting on fire...it will be a FO and soooon...

Hugs, G

[Chris@bookarama]

Thanks for joining the challenge!

[Angie]

I use both those words but try not to think too hard about that fact. :D They work for me. Are there better words to use? I kind of like Kathy's Fabulous comment. hee hee.

I'll leave the knitting advice to those who can advise. :D No fires or miter saws, either.

Love the poem.

[opal]

just reading about the mitered corners gave me a headache. :-&

good luck! *hugs*

[Rachel]

I am so tempted to join the book challenge...I'll decide before I leave...it will dictate what books I take with me!

Mitering? Not a clue.

The Periodic Table? Sounds fascinating...and it's been added to THE list. oy. what a long list.

[Stacey]

Dahhhhling, that is most excellent progress on the sweater.

:D

/runs

[Brigitte]

Yeah, don't burn it, the smell would really be gross, and I don't think it'll burn anyway. Besides, I'll make you feel better - ask me about Isobel of Mar. Go on. Ask me.

[Carlyn Beccia]

Love the poem too. But I don't have a clue what Mitering is? Know any REALLY basic knitting books. I want to learn!

[Elspeth]

Wow this project just won't go away, will it? I'm very proud of you for staying monogamous so long.

[Knitnana]

Excellent.
:)

[obsidiankitten]

What a great poem.

Ex...cell..ent.

[joan]

If you finish M.T. before I finish chemo in a few weeks, I will be very worried. I'm puzzling over the pattern now.

[Julia]

I always think the ponies that go round and round so kids can "ride" a pony are pretty sad. In fact, I refer to them as the "sad eyed ponies". The true mad professor terminology is "most excellent". Take it from one who knows. I'd hit up Montse Stanley for the answer to the mitering thing. Or maybe there is a reference online. But yeah, Marina will know.

[Birdsong]

I can't help you with the mitering; good at sewn ones, but this is something I have never tried. I love the poem though.

[Sonya]

I'm no help on the mitering thing either. I hate stuff that makes no sense. Definitely no burning MT.

You've inspired me to get my reading habit back in gear. I joined TWO reading challenges.

[Lorraine]

Carrie- E-mail me and I'll walk you through it. I've done mitering, and I'll read the instructions.

There is more than one way to do it.

[Nora]

Whew - I'm glad someone chimed in to help!!

[Jocelyn]

I don't think I'm going to be much help with the sweater, except to encourage you not to look at burning as the answer :)

[CarolyninAlaska]

I'm sure glad Lorraine offered to help. The last time I gave you advice... it was for the "wrong corner" and wrong approach because I didn't look it up exctly what was supposed to be done in Tudor Roses. This time, I'll just keep my silly "mouth" shut!

[Literary Feline]

LOL I know about using "cool" and "excellent"! I seem to be using those words a lot lately too. The Periodic Table sounds really interesting. I will have to look for that one.

What a touching poem--so true!