Norwegian Sweater Fighting

I have to apologise for the series of planned posts that didn't materialise, owing to a combination of illness, indexing and the fact that the combination of illness and indexing isn't allowing me the time or mental energy to actually knit. Sigh.

As a peace-offering: Norwegian Sweater Fighting. Othar's Twitter is an entertaining little bagatelle purporting to chronicle the exploits of Othar, a Spark and gentleman adventurer from the Girl Genius web comic (pseudo-Victorian Mad Science!). The last couple of entries charmed me utterly by randomly inventing Norwegian Sweater Fighting, which handily defeats the odd white lady resurrected in the lab, who "knows not the way of the målet and is helpless against a true Genser Hersker". I'm seeing this latter as a particularly convoluted sort of wrestling hold, with the opponent tied in complicated and decorative knots.

knitting pome

Knitting poetry by Moira Linehan. Eve cable-stitches the serpent's back. You seasoned knitters are quite probably familiar with this, but it rather charmed me.

The banana fibre scarf is twice as long as my arm, and has only not made any progress in the last week because I've run out of X-Files. New seasons arrive in July, until which time I shall have to retreat into Buffy. I discovered, with some annoyance, that the two balls of wool are slightly different colours, so I've alternated them in huge chunks, probably not an optimal solution but I didn't want to rip it back and be more artistic as this yarn breaks very easily. The second colour is also slightly differently textured, not as smooth. Is this normal with hand-dyed stuff?

I will photograph it all soon. I will! I will!