Sunday, September 9, 2012

September

Oooh, it's September. Even though the sun's shining and it's warm, there's a chill in the air and the sunshine is slightly ... diluted. The first sign that September's here - apart from the stacks of Christmas cookies and gingerbread already in the supermarkets - is the proliferation of pumpkins. Ooh, I love pumpkins! As soon as I could, I got a nice, big butternut squash and made a crockpot (yes, this crackpot has a crockpot) full of vegetable soup:


which Mr Gingerbread and I ate with gusto. And a couple of slices of wholewheat bread.


The Summer Daisies is being tested by a group of nice women, whose eagle eyes will spot any mistakes in the pattern (I am numerically-challenged, so this is not an easy task.)



But in my head, I'm thinking about what I could do next. The Cathedral Rose pattern has fascinated me for a long time. But I don't want to do that one, I want to do my own pattern based on another cathedral rose window, namely the north window in the cathedral in Chartres:

beautiful photo by Eusebius (Guillaume Piolle)
So I lined up my yarn and looked at it.



And did some thinking about how you change a complex image of a mediaeval stained glass window into a crochet pattern ... why-oh-why did I not pay attention in geometry class? If I had known twenty years ago that all of that stuff Sr. Francis used to torture us with in maths class actually had a practical usage in the Real World - why, I might have actually listened! I might have done my homework!
Or not.

Too late now. I have to use my geometry set from the Euro Store and work things out on my cheapie calculator, with no guarantee that I'm actually doing it right. But I persevere!

4 comments:

Playing Hooky said...

And it is SO worth it. Because if you persevere, why, that means that we don't have to. Go Gingerbread Lady.

Lisa said...

You will make it. I'm curious about your next project.

Lisa

supertinks said...

Ooooh that window is gorgeous. Good luck translating it into crochet!

Anne said...

Your soup looks absolutely delicious!! Love butternut squash anything!! :) And Wow to your initiative to work on something so magnificent as the stained glass window idea. Can hardly wait to see it!! Hope you are doing well! :)