Only recently have I become aware that pink causes controversy among knitters. Pink’s a love it or leave it color. One meme that made its way around asked a simple question: red or pink? I thought both. But most people had a definite preference. Red is red and pink is pink, and never the twain shall meet. I admit that I am not much for the two hues together, a little too Valentine, but separately, I love them both. In fact, my wedding dress was pink. I have blue skin undertones, therefore pink makes me look healthy and awake, so I am always open to a new pink garment.<\/p>\n

A few weeks ago while browsing Webs<\/a>, I found a steal of a deal on a bulky yarn that came in a lovely shade of icy pink. The yarn even came with a free pattern for a wide V-neck raglan sweater, just the sort of sweater I could use to showcase some of my beaded jewelry. I couldn’t resist.<\/p>\n

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Valley Yarns Sherburne in icy pink and Cascade Yarns Baby Grand Alpaca in fuschia.<\/i><\/p>\n

I couldn’t help but add a few skeins of the baby alpaca for a scarf. If the chunky alpaca doesn’t get too fluffy, I will try it in a brioche cable scarf from the Winter 2006 Twists and Turns<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As soon as the yarn arrived I swatched for the sweater, and unlike my usual tendency, I had to go up rather than down a needle size.<\/p>\n

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I’ll be knitting on size 10.5 needles! Fast knit! Yay! As soon as the Landscape Shawl is blocking, the icy pink is on the needles.<\/p>\n

To stay with the pink theme, I’m trying a new author for some very light reading, The Secret of the Pink Carnation<\/i> by Lauren Willig. This is Willig’s debut novel, which reviews have described as a swashbuckling, romantic romp. The story takes place both in present day and during the early 19th century. The present day heroine, Eloise Kelly, is a history graduate student researching British aristocratic spies during the Napoleonic Wars such as the Scarlet Pimpernel, the Purple Gentian, and the Pink Carnation, the most secret of the flower spies. The present day part of the story is in first person with self-deprecating humor and a chatty tone. When she starts to make some progress in her research, the story switches to third person in 1803 London. I’m not any farther than this first switch, but I am pretty sure the story goes back and forth. There is a lot of witty repartee between the characters. It is a fun story so far. There aren’t going to be any insights into the human condition or humanity’s place in the cosmos, but it’s a nice bit of leaven during a rainy February.<\/p>\n

Well, the Landscape Shawl is hollering at me from the knitting basket, best get to it.<\/p>\n

Happy Knitting!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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