I found Anne Hanson/Knitspot from Stephanie/Yarn Harlot‘s web blog. Anne drove to the Represent tour in Cleveland, so she’s a midwesterner of some extraction.

I looked at Anne’s designs. She likes lace and I’m not big on frilly, girly lace. However, I’ll concede that a few yarnovers (artful holes) are OK in something not intending to cover the body. (I do not like lace clothing that isn’t lined.)

Well… I love love love Elsabeth Lavold’s Silky Wool yarn. I have wanted to make a lightweight wrap in it, but have not found a pattern I liked that was un-lace enough. I like geometrics, not flowers and frills. One friend made a beautiful wrap that was pretty darned good in the lace department. However, it was a triangle and I just don’t like to wear triangle shawls.

But now I’m tempted. Anne’s Hypoteneuse Shawl is wonderful. It’s geometric and made of tweedy yarn, and my beloved Silky Wool is listed as one of the yarns that works for the project. And the model? I’ll never do this piece justice next to the very fine urban dude (with amazing dreads) modeling the wrap in Anne’s photos. Wow. This is totally my kind of shawl.

Now, if I could only truly be urban as well… if I knit this shawl do I get to move to Chicago or New York? Or Paris, or London?

I dream, dream, dream of being a true CityGrrl. Maybe wrapping up in this lovely shawl will transform me as fast as a nod of Barbara Eden’s head in I Dream of Jeannie, or a twitch of the nose in Bewitched. I can only hope.

Meanwhile the only guarantee would be that after the knitting I’d be the midwestern middle-sized-city dweller that I already am, but in a stylish wrap. I’d like it.

Now I just need to find the time to knit for me. Not a sample for a shop, not a design in development, not a project for the runway at the Dallas-Ft. Worth Fiber Festival. Knitting for the joy of it, for a piece I could keep when it was done.

I can dream, can’t I?

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