A Bluestocking Knits

We had a nice holiday — I made pies on Wednesday, then we went to Grandma’s for Thanksgiving dinner yesterday —

The girls went home with their other Grandma for a sleepover, so the house is strangely quiet and subdued.

Word came down from Show and Tell Friday that today’s theme is "something special" — since my father-in-law is famous, nay, infamous for his puns, and the air was full of them yesterday, the first thing I thought of this morning was

In knitting news, my needles are clacking away at Cinxia, and I’ve been accumulating wool for my first Kaffe Fassett project — in fact, this is my first Rowan purchase ever, believe it or not!  (The Calmer for my Ostrich Plume was a gift.)  I realized that the discontinued Rowanspun 4-Ply was in fact a very close match, weight- and gauge-wise, for Yorkshire Tweed 4-Ply (having had the brilliant idea to read the substitution FAQ on the Rowan website), and so as a local yarn shop still has rather a lot of the Rowanspun, I picked up a number of skeins.

I have been finding the Rowan names very amusing, and was tempted to send out a pop quiz to some non-knitting friends to see what colors these names brought to mind, or even just to match names to colors.  Obviously, I would never be able to get a job at Rowan, worse luck (think of the employee discount!).

Left and right, from the top: 283 Whiskers, 281 Knight, 266 Highlander, 269 Blessed, 276 Radiant, 265 Shrew, 280 Deep Aubergine, and 268 Enchant.

From the top: 711 Sludge, 701 Swarm, 703 Rumtoft, 704 Slate, 709 Holly,  and 710 Burgundy.  (Curiously, I put these almost exactly in numerical order.)  These names are a little more sedate than the Yorkshire Tweed — Holly, Slate, and Burgundy I get, maybe even Sludge, so my score would be over 50%!  The Yorkshire Tweed Deep Aubergine has been discontinued — one of only two names that I could associate with any assurance, along with Shrew, so I’m suspecting that Rowan discontinues a color (or, good heavens, a whole line!) if they find that the names actually make sense….

And just because I feel a little frivolous this morning, here’s a little quiz from Quizilla.  These things are like potato chips, you start nibbling and then half an hour later realize you’ve eaten far more than is good for you.  But "Persuasion" is one of my favorite movies ever, not just Jane Austen movies, so I was pleased with the answer.

Which Jane Austen Character Are You?

You are Anne Elliott from Persuasion. You
might also be Harriet Smith from Emma,
or Fanny Price from Mansfield Park or
possibly even Jane Fairfax from Emma.
People underestimate you all the time. You are
somewhat introverted, so it is assumed that
other people can persuade you to do anything,
or even think that they can roll right over
you, even when they mean to be doing you a good
deed. The good news is, you have it within
yourself to stand up and take charge– you know
what’s right, and you know what you want, after
all! It’s just a matter of speaking up!

Which Jane Austen Character Are You?
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