Erica
I finished the cardigan which was commissioned by a friend of my mum on behalf of her mother. The recipient’s name is Erica, which apparently is Latin for heather. Perfectly fitting for this colour. Mum made me pose with some heather.
Obviously it doesn’t fit me at all, but I didn’t think finding a model it did fit would be too easy and it’s so cozy and pretty that I wanted to wear it. Hopefully the real Erica will send me some pictures of her wearing it. And if it doesn’t fit her, well I’m quite prepared to eat cakes until it fits me. (Or I could take in the seams, so that I don’t have to replace the rest of my wardrobe).
My intentions for blogging are always so far ahead of what I actually get around to doing. I took almost done pictures on Wednesday, but found them still on the camera today. I was still trying to decide how to do the neckband then. I ended up going with my original plan, and my worries that it wouldn’t work turned out to be completely unnecessary.
Still not totally well, although with the return of the sun I’m feeling much better. My spring cleaning mission, is even getting somewhere. I spent the afternoon sorting through piles and piles of paper and in the end the ‘to file’ pile was satisfyingly small, while the recycle and shred piles were not only large but have already been taken care of. This is something I’ve clearly needed to do for a while, there were things from 2003 there. I’ve moved house 6 times since then. Oh dear.
I found something kind of disconcerting out on Wednesday. Quite randomly I ended up getting an eye test, only to discover that my poor wee right eye can’t focus on anything more than a couple of meters away. The strangest thing is that I had no idea at all. I have to get glasses to remind my brain that I still have two eyes, which is the only good part of this. I’ve wanted glasses for years, but as far as I knew my vision was perfect. This was most likely caused by spending too much time looking at computer screens and reading books and peering at teeny tiny stitches, in other words I brought this upon myself. If you, like me, think your eyesight is fine and have never had an eye test, go get yourself to an optician. Now. Granted, hopefully I’m the only one crazy enough not to realise that she’s only using one eye but you never know what they might find. Then if you’re as surprised as me you can join me in walking around winking at everything. It’s like having my own macro preview.
Posted: March 31st, 2007 under Uncategorized.
Comments: 20
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Comment from loribird
Time: March 31, 2007, 11:59 pm
“Erica” looks fantastic! A great commisioned piece.
For what it’s worth, it sounds like you may be nearsighted in your one eye (you see better close up than far away) and it’s very unlikely that you caused that problem by knitting and reading. In fact, your ability to “macro” focus might have been helping you without your knowledge!
Comment from carole
Time: April 1, 2007, 1:10 am
It’s lovely– are you going to publish a pattern?
Comment from kate
Time: April 1, 2007, 4:58 am
this july after 25.8 years of perfectly good eyesight, i was told i needed glasses (although my discovery was aided by killer migranes and a sudden refusal to drive at night due to my insistance that because i couldn’t, noone else could see, either and it was very dangerous). the first question i was asked: “do you do any repetitive fine detail work?” it took me a few weeks to adjust to glasses (the reeducation of the reluctant eyeballs) but now i am amazed at how clear the world is!
the sweater is beautiful — i’m sure the recipient will adore it.
and no pressure, but how is the grey hoodie coming? i am very excited to see that pink lining…..
Comment from emily
Time: April 1, 2007, 7:41 am
any chance of a pattern? or is that violating the exclusivity of the commission ; ) ? because that sweater is awfully nice.
Comment from Bobbi
Time: April 1, 2007, 2:57 pm
Lucky Erica! I hope she likes it. You’ve done an awesome job!!!
Comment from Tricia
Time: April 1, 2007, 4:43 pm
The cardigan is fabulous, I desperately hope that you publish the pattern as I am in total love with all things ‘wrap’ at the moment.
I too wear glasses and am convinced it comes from too much computer and knitting!!!!
Again beautiful cardigan, I’m sure Erica will love it.
Comment from Catie
Time: April 1, 2007, 5:31 pm
Yes, beautiful cardigan - and I’m hoping for a pattern for it one day, too.
Comment from purlpower
Time: April 1, 2007, 5:32 pm
I only realised I had eye problems in my final year of university. I was at a lecture and stuck behind a pillar and so kept moving my head to look round it one way and then the other, “that’s funny” I remember thinking to myself, “when I look round the pillar on that side I can see the lecturer fine but when I look round the other side he’s all blurry” I was so accustomed to thinking I had perfect eye-sight that it took me a full ten minutes of alternate peering to realise that perhaps it was my eyes that were at fault and not a strange trick of the room. Turns out I have one long-sighted eye and one short-sighted but my brain had got so used to compensating that I didn’t notice.
Gorgeous cardi by the way!
Comment from Alice
Time: April 1, 2007, 5:58 pm
It really is beautiful! What an amazing thing to receive!
Comment from Projektleiterin
Time: April 1, 2007, 6:35 pm
The edging looks really nice. Good job. :)
Comment from anushka
Time: April 1, 2007, 9:02 pm
The cardigan is very pretty; I can just see how great it would look on The Full-Figured Woman (giggle).
Not that your figure isn’t full, my dear, but, well, you know what I mean.
I got glasses when i was nine. I realised I needed them when I couldn’t see the music when I was playing the cello. For months the music stand was, quite literally, inches away from my nose. (I compensated by getting purple glasses. I now have green ones, but you can’t really tell.)
Comment from Crystal
Time: April 2, 2007, 12:19 am
I just adore this! Everything you knit is always so pretty and elegant. I really hope you get a chance to publish some of these patterns soon, including this one!
Comment from lupinbunny
Time: April 2, 2007, 12:44 am
i too, have gone blind(ish) in one eye! though i did it before you.
i was quite embarassed when they told me only one eye needed a prescription lens… i was going to ask for a monocle, but thought that holding it in place might give me premature crows feet.
Comment from Ali
Time: April 2, 2007, 3:52 pm
Eric is beautiful. You really seem to have sussed the old modelling thing! I too thought I had perfect eye sight until I felt really tired after a day on the computer and low and behold I needed a pair too. The novelty still hasn’t worn off as they make me feel really intelligent!
Comment from Kate
Time: April 2, 2007, 8:11 pm
Beautiful cardigan! I really like the detailing on the edge.
I had the same experience in middle school when we had a mandatory eye test. My right eye was mostly fine, but my left eye couldn’t see very much. I hadn’t even realized it was so different from my right eye!
Comment from Marcie
Time: April 3, 2007, 3:54 am
I really enjoy reading your blog. Hopefully you will make the “Erica” pattern available? It’s very pretty.
Comment from Lesa
Time: April 3, 2007, 6:15 pm
what a pretty sweater! I don’t think I would have taken the comission.
Comment from Bloo
Time: April 4, 2007, 8:09 pm
What a gorgeous sweater! And a very lucky recipient! I like the shape, the colour, the edging, the cuffs… everything!
I had the same eye problem, diagnosed for 10 years before I ever wore glasses… my other eye was completely compensating for the bad one to the extent that glasses weren’t needed. So, don’t feel like you brought this on yourself, that’s not necessarily so: it may have been like that for quite a long time, and just happened naturally, and you didn’t notice because your good eye was compensating.
Comment from Alice from france
Time: April 5, 2007, 6:02 pm
Wonderful! The color is so nice!
Comment from Webbo
Time: April 6, 2007, 7:26 am
Me too! I’ve got a lazy right eye and a left eye which has adjusted to compensate. I have had the same optician since childhood and always been under the impression that I had perfect vision so imagine my surprise when he suddenly revealed that I would have to wear glasses, that he has always been aware of the bias in my vision, and that he could have fixed it but didn’t think it was worth suggesting that a small child wear strong prescription classes. Oh well. So at least you’re not alone in this, and you do have a very lovely blog for me to squint at, so thank-you.
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