Return of the Sticks
Oct. 6th, 2013 10:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chocolatepotThere's a fiber fair this weekend, so I went with Mom yesterday. I wasn't going to buy anything - I bought some beautiful blue roving last year and of course have not spun more than a handful of it - but I did end up with two skeins of different blues from a local farm (mix of Romney, Wensleydale, and Blue-Faced Leicester) to knit Christmas presents for Dad and Melissa. Was going to be socks, but I would have needed more, so a hat for Dad and a lace scarf for Melissa. Started in on the hat last night, found that my dpns in that size are metal (damn) and are a set of four so not quite compatible with the organization of the pattern (DAMN), so it was not fun getting it started, but it is. I always forget how much I like knitting - haven't done it in probably about two years. Also forget how much I dislike winding center-pull balls.
At the local fiber mill's booth, I picked up a copy of Interweave (from after I stopped subscribing) with an adorable "Downton sweater" that I'm going to make someday, though it involves a lot of stranded colorwork so maybe I'll just knit it plain, and a copy of Knitting Traditions because their global designs are usually very classic.
No more clothing complaints, but now I'm a bit disappointed with the politics. At the time, there was pretty much a three-way split - an equal split, or so I'm told - between loyalists, revolutionaries, and people who didn't care. And of course in American fiction, only bad people support not cutting ties with Britain. I had hoped that because the book was written by scholars, they'd be more nuanced ... but so far, the only loyalists are Fanny's father, who is a dick, and whose loyalty to the King is an almost direct comparison to the unfair obedience he demands from his daughter (not very subtle at all), and a portrait sitter, who's a show-offy dick who only cares about making money. So I'm not very impressed there.
I'm just so tired of the standard narrative. Surely we are far away enough from the Revolution to be able to portray characters on both sides as humans?
At the local fiber mill's booth, I picked up a copy of Interweave (from after I stopped subscribing) with an adorable "Downton sweater" that I'm going to make someday, though it involves a lot of stranded colorwork so maybe I'll just knit it plain, and a copy of Knitting Traditions because their global designs are usually very classic.
No more clothing complaints, but now I'm a bit disappointed with the politics. At the time, there was pretty much a three-way split - an equal split, or so I'm told - between loyalists, revolutionaries, and people who didn't care. And of course in American fiction, only bad people support not cutting ties with Britain. I had hoped that because the book was written by scholars, they'd be more nuanced ... but so far, the only loyalists are Fanny's father, who is a dick, and whose loyalty to the King is an almost direct comparison to the unfair obedience he demands from his daughter (not very subtle at all), and a portrait sitter, who's a show-offy dick who only cares about making money. So I'm not very impressed there.
I'm just so tired of the standard narrative. Surely we are far away enough from the Revolution to be able to portray characters on both sides as humans?
