A couple things for a Sunday afternoon.

First, one of my favorite short pieces of music ever (Bach's Prelude of the First Cello Suite) played on an unusual instrument:



It's a nyckelharpa, a type of keyed fiddle. I know it best as an instrument used in traditional Swedish music. (Yes, I like traditional Swedish folk music too. There are actually few forms of music I don't like...and most of the ones I don't are very highly commercial ones). I guess it's used in some other folk or folk-idiom music as well.

(Though to be totally honest, I think I'm moved more hearing it on a cello, as it usually is played.)

(One of the lovely things about YouTube? You can listen to many different artists' interpretations of a piece. Normally I don't get to do that, not having ready access to classical music radio, and as I generally prefer to have a broad rather than deep collection of CDs. I've been listening to different cellists play the above mentioned piece...have to say Pablo Casal's version [there's an old film from 1954 of him playing it] is my favorite, with Mischa Maisky a close second.

And as I am not a musicologist nor do I play the cello, I feel that I am free to be totally "wrong" and counter to the opinions on what "serious" musicologists would say on this. And I don't even feel that I have to defend my likes, not being a musicologist or such.)

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I began the Lace Ribbon Scarf:



This is the first...I think repeat and a half? It's a pretty easy pattern once you get going but that single yo is easy to forget...I wound up having to rip back a row or two because I'd forget them.

I will probably invariably think of this as my Hobbit scarf, as Hobbits famously are fond of yellow and green together.

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I'm working away on the various socks. I pulled a bunch of yarn out of the center of the skein of the Kureyon sock yarn (I'm knitting it from the center out) and found a knot. On one side of the knot the yarn was purple. On the other side it was peach.

Yeah, there was a break in the yarn and they just tied two skeins together. Way to phone it in, Noro.

So I took the skein and used my ball-winder to subtract that part of the sequence from the center of the skein (Journey to the Center of the Skein! Hah! I slay me!) until I got back around to the purple. So the stripes may be a little off, whatever. I didn't want a sharp transition right there in the sock. I just hope the progression is the same and it's not that one of the skeins goes purple-reddish purple-gray-green-peach and the other part is reversed relative to that, where it will go backwards into the yellow green I had just left. (I've heard of such things happening in the self patterning yarns, though not specifically Noro.)