Wanna see something amazing?

Check out how the Tsarina is playing with change ringing to come up with knitting patterns.  It is totally freakin' AWESOME.

Full disclosure:  I tried my hand at change ringing with handbells many years ago.  I wasn't very good at it, and didn't stay with it long.  But I used to love to write out the changes on graph paper, loving how the numbers that stood for bells moved back and forth and around.  And afterwards, when I went back and re-read The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. Sayers, the story made a lot more sense.  :)

But it never in a million years would have occurred to me to use it for knitting stuff.

The Tsarina is brilliant.

Comments

[tsocktsarina]

Ah, shucks, ma'am.

I envy your practical experience with change-ringing. I've never done it, not even with handbells; always wanted to try it.

I don't know how far back you've looked in the archives of my change-ringing ramblings - you do realize, don't you? that this whole crazy thing was triggered in the first place by my desire to design a sock based on The Nine Tailors. (Sock is slated for late fall.)

Somewhere out in the blogosphere I encountered a woman who had seen change-ringing patterns needlepointed on kneelers in a little church in Cardiff. There is no new thing under the sun - but how cool!

[Danielle]

That looks fun but intense. I would be interested to find what it sounds like.

thanks for sharing.

[KOARC]

Janice, you crack me up!!! Of COURSE I have an action figure of Jar-Jar Binks. (Doesn't everyone?)

Ian

[alice]

Oh, wow. My mind is boggled!