We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful. Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth. (Mary Antin)

Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Unbiased



I hate the name of this pattern because it's just plain wrong. This pattern is knit such that the bag ends up on the bias. However, I did knit it practically stitch-for-stitch from Knitty's Unbiased, so I guess I won't change the name.

The one thing I did have to do different from the pattern was knit two of the pieces "backwards": increasing at the first stitch and decreasing at the last stitch. This was because my pieces, unlike the ones in the pattern, had a right and wrong side--not because of the stitching (I used a garter stitch) but because I chose to do a contrast stripe to emphasize the biased nature of the pattern.

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We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful. Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth. (Mary Antin)