It’s possible to knit manically once you’re onto something. The Negress had picked on a pattern called “Amelia” from the spring 2008 edition of the online magazine Knitty. The item is a seamless cardigan and it’s knitted together with the sleeves being joined to the body raglan style. The yarn in question? Debbie Bliss Alpaca Silk Aran. Much of this has been worked during the end of hockey season and the first round of the playoffs. The Devils have been playing in bipolar fashion, crazy with energy and forechecking one minute, lazily moving up and down the ice with no purpose the next. Through it all we knit.
But then, after a last second loss to the Hurricanes that tied the series at 2-2, we looked down at the sweater and realized something was very, very wrong. The simple explanation: I would have to reattach one of my arms to the middle of my back to wear it. One misplaced marker resulted in one misshapen garment. So, while various iterations of HGTV and “Law and Order” played in the background, the ripping commenced. The sleeves were detached, the markers were placed after triple checking the counting. This time we started the raglan shaping as soon as the sleeves were attached.
This relates to the Devils because they lost the game with .2 seconds left on a goal that got by Martin Brodeur, who was interfered with but also had no defenders around. He smacked his stick against the boards angrily. The Negress felt his frustration too. A pile of squiggly yarn, sore teeth and much use of crochet hook to fetch dropped stitches? I was so there.
