tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7328996877751363067.post2863132365369418824..comments2023-10-01T14:22:47.269+01:00Comments on A Likely Story: Does it have to be perfect?Teresa Ashbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15350697922935549188noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7328996877751363067.post-19634230076823471892011-01-24T09:12:38.955+00:002011-01-24T09:12:38.955+00:00I do find knitting calms me, Suzanne - except when...I do find knitting calms me, Suzanne - except when I'm dropping stitches or finding I've got an extra one somewhere along the line. Then the patience snaps!Teresa Ashbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15350697922935549188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7328996877751363067.post-12517234860958906462011-01-23T19:11:45.769+00:002011-01-23T19:11:45.769+00:00I'm sure the hat's gorgeous.
I used to kn...I'm sure the hat's gorgeous.<br /><br />I used to knit - and do embroidery - but these days I have little patience and even less talent for it.<br /><br />XXSuzanne Ross Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08561888635304578484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7328996877751363067.post-79062171606485590742011-01-13T21:15:03.239+00:002011-01-13T21:15:03.239+00:00Thanks Teresa, will do!Thanks Teresa, will do!penandpaintshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17273388732451042663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7328996877751363067.post-7180538160353214382011-01-13T13:43:59.945+00:002011-01-13T13:43:59.945+00:00Penandpaints, this explains it better than I can h...Penandpaints, this explains it better than I can http://www.theknittingsite.com/cast-off.htm Go on, have a go - then do the same with your writing :-)<br /><br />Ooh I remember that, Jacula - we used to dance to that at school. Sadly that's not it. I still haven't watched the Sinking of the Laconia! What a lovely thing to do - bring Bonnie back :-)See you were a writer even then!<br /><br />Hydra, that reminds me how I begged my mum to let me have "bought" school jumpers like everyone else. It must have hurt. I did appreciate her knitting when I got older though!Teresa Ashbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15350697922935549188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7328996877751363067.post-43808324436929411682011-01-12T12:53:37.444+00:002011-01-12T12:53:37.444+00:00My mum was an expert knitter, too, and also sewed ...My mum was an expert knitter, too, and also sewed all our clothes until we were big teenagers insisting we wanted something 'new, from the shops', which broke her heart. She could read music and played Chopin so well it brought tears to your eyes (I started playing at the age of 3), and my dad, like yours, could play anything by ear. I love your analogy between knitting and writing. If only I could get started...hydrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17050622432144268086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7328996877751363067.post-43540733035686490192011-01-12T04:31:59.691+00:002011-01-12T04:31:59.691+00:00Hearing 'My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean' ag...Hearing 'My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean' again in 'The Sinking of The Laconia' reminds me that I thought the song too sad when I was 5 or 6 and so wrote a final verse where My Bonnie was brought back. LOL.Jackie Saylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13047994593375513101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7328996877751363067.post-64635489076717458912011-01-12T04:24:18.208+00:002011-01-12T04:24:18.208+00:00I wonder if that song might be Mairi's Wedding...I wonder if that song might be Mairi's Wedding (aka The Lewis Bridal Song)? 'Step we gaily on we go, heel for heel and toe for toe, arm in arm and row on row, all for Mairi's Wedding.'<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgiRY0rYuu4Jackie Saylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13047994593375513101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7328996877751363067.post-3075973582070618992011-01-11T21:44:14.185+00:002011-01-11T21:44:14.185+00:00Well I think it's fabulous that you've mad...Well I think it's fabulous that you've made a hat! <br />I think that's a great analogy, I can knit a scarf, I can't follow a pattern and when I come to cast off I can't figure out how to do it so it all stays on the needles...Come to think of it, that sums up my writing brilliantly. Unfortunately.penandpaintshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17273388732451042663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7328996877751363067.post-26846475648457421822011-01-11T19:41:51.950+00:002011-01-11T19:41:51.950+00:00I can’t pick up stitches if my life depended on it...I can’t pick up stitches if my life depended on it, Diane. Once they’re dropped, that’s it, I’m finished. Am I too old to learn?<br />Music – well I’m quite good at listening to it ;-)<br /><br />Thank you, Linda. Yes, we are lucky. I’d never really thought about it before, but it’s nice to know that no one will ever see some of the stuff I’ve produced. Actually very nice to know – phew!<br /><br />Thanks, Karen. I’ve even tapped the Monkey’s Wedding in to Songtapper which is supposed to identify tunes from the rhythm and it comes up with Afternoon Delight by Gordon Lightfoot, Mozart’s Turkish March and I Like Traffic Lights by Monty Python and it doesn’t sound like any of those! Maybe I’m just no good at tapping.<br /><br />I’ve never done a cable, Joanne. If it isn’t straight forward knit and pearl with two needles I’m lost. Ooh I do that with old stories too – I wouldn’t write them the same now. <br /><br />Oh Helen, that made me smile because I can’t sew knitted things up either. My mum used to do the sewing up bit for me. I’m fine sewing anything else, just not knitteds.<br /><br />Word has certainly made life easier, Patsy. I do have a photo of the hat, but… I also have my pride :-)<br /><br />I’ve done that this week, Carol. Gone right back to the beginning and started all over again and that wasn’t with the knitting.<br /><br />I loved that story, Lynne – by one of my favourite writers! I’ve been thinking about knitting myself an Indiana Jones doll, but the way I knit it’d probably end up looking like Corporal Jones :-)Teresa Ashbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15350697922935549188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7328996877751363067.post-85108177461601896332011-01-11T14:35:32.965+00:002011-01-11T14:35:32.965+00:00Lovely post Teresa. I've been thinking of inve...Lovely post Teresa. I've been thinking of investing in wool and needles but don't know what to knit. Perhaps some little dolls like the ones on the front of Fiction Feast that feature in a story by someone not too far away.Lynne Hackleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11584150621973821344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7328996877751363067.post-30197170766916888312011-01-11T14:13:47.660+00:002011-01-11T14:13:47.660+00:00Yes writing is very like knitting. I've just h...Yes writing is very like knitting. I've just hit one of those mistakes and have to go back to the beginning, but as you say it will be perfect next time- well as perfect as I can get it.Carolbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05578076528292643928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7328996877751363067.post-12726949065790439532011-01-11T10:36:07.926+00:002011-01-11T10:36:07.926+00:00This makes me so glad of computers - if I realise ...This makes me so glad of computers - if I realise I should have mentioned something at the beginning, I can just scroll up and put it in. <br /><br />I wonder if knitting machines let people go back and put in stitches missing from the first few rows?<br /><br />I agree with Joanne - show us the hat!Patsyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12263765378083045973noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7328996877751363067.post-61513744219598157982011-01-11T10:35:07.323+00:002011-01-11T10:35:07.323+00:00That's a brilliant analogy. It reminds me that...That's a brilliant analogy. It reminds me that I'm quite good at knitting, but hopeless at sewing the garments up at the end - which may well reveal something about my writing as well! I'm off to polish a story now and make it as perfect as it can be before I send it off.HelenMWaltershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16182100572365505905noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7328996877751363067.post-83262572534731788802011-01-11T10:22:11.785+00:002011-01-11T10:22:11.785+00:00I don't know The Monkey's Wedding - but I&...I don't know The Monkey's Wedding - but I'd love to see that hat! The only kind of knitting I enjoy is cables. I'm hopeless with fancy, lacy patterns or Fair Isle. Cables are more forgiving, I find. <br /><br />Plots and patterns are quite similar aren't they. But what's perfection? Stories I had published a few years ago were as good as I could make them at the time, but when I look at them now, I find things I would change. Partly I have perhaps improved (very slightly!) as a writer, but also it's about having a different perspective now from that of 4 or 5 years ago. We're always learning, whether it's writing, knitting or music.joanne foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12694158807826275846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7328996877751363067.post-67551563134013115322011-01-11T10:20:36.277+00:002011-01-11T10:20:36.277+00:00My mum and gran were perfectionists with their kni...My mum and gran were perfectionists with their knitting too and taught me when I was young that a dropped stitch here and there simply wasn't good enough! I haven't done any for ages, but this post has reminded me how much I used to enjoy it.<br /><br />Good writing analogy too - if I know a story needs reworking I put it away for a while until I can face it, and rewrite it until it feels 'perfect' - to me at least :o)<br /><br />I can't help with The Monkey's Wedding I'm afraid!Karenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05986874444030474719noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7328996877751363067.post-79356975529790200442011-01-11T10:18:06.997+00:002011-01-11T10:18:06.997+00:00What a lovely analogy - yes writing is like knitti...What a lovely analogy - yes writing is like knitting. Aren't we lucky that we can go back and sort out all the glitches before we have to show it to the world?<br /><br />Keep knitting and definitely writing!<br /><br />Lindawannabe a writerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06692361757891220849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7328996877751363067.post-71974968624886454182011-01-11T10:17:08.163+00:002011-01-11T10:17:08.163+00:00Ooh, I thought - a knitting post! And then it was ...Ooh, I thought - a knitting post! And then it was a writing post AND a musical post. Brilliant.<br /><br />Knitting: Our mothers were taught knitting by women who made them unravel the whole thing if they made a single mistake. I CAN pick up dropped stitches, although not with a crochet hook like my grandma did. But I learned so I wouldn't have to unravel the whole thing. I'm bone idle, you see. I'm knitting again too. I'm in the middle of an Aran.<br /><br />Music: My uncle couldn't read a note of music but he could pick up almost any instrument and play it by ear. My dad's piano party piece was "The Most Wonderful Night of the Year" (the waltz they play on carousels). My party piece is "Chopsticks". We can all play musical instruments in our family, apart from my mom. Who can knit. Brilliantly and without any mistakes.<br /><br />Writing: If I'm not happy with it, no-one sees it. Unless I can't for the life of me work out where the dropped stitch is, and then I get someone I trust to tell me the truth and what they really think.Dianehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06430125606844410229noreply@blogger.com