How is a Dovetail The Same as a Bible?

I usually write on Sunday or Monday but here it is Wednesday.  What happened!?!?!  We went to Traverse City for a long weekend and Red Wings Training Camp.  Hi, Lori on LTB!  Some time when we come to TC, I'm going to get my act together and we can meet for coffee and knitting. It was a fabulous weekend except for the fact I couldn't visit Yarn Quest one of my all time favorite LYS.  Last July, a car drove through the shop and they were unable to reopen.  This will the first time Dick and I visited Traverse City without me going to a yarn shop and buying yarn.  Sad! We got home Monday but I brought the crud home with me so I've been drooping around until now.  Enough excuses!  Let's get down to business.

​How is a Dovetail the same as the Bible?  Well, when it is the shawl pattern Dovetail and the book Poisonwood Bible, the answer it simple.  They are two of my favorites and I couldn't put either of them down.  

This is the Dovetail pattern.  I fell in love with it as soon as I put it on my needles.  Just like I fell in love with The Poisonwood Bible on the first page.  I couldn't put it down.  I read it, reread it and listened to it audiobook.  As soon as Dovetail was on my needles, I couldn't knit anything else.  Dovetail is a slip stitch pattern.  You only use one color on a row slipping stitches to get 2 colors on each row.  Magic! It is one of my favorite techniques.  The pattern looks so complicated but it really a 6 stitch repeat. I tried but I just didn't want to knit anything else.  I think part of my infatuation was using my favorite yarn of all time, Kauni EQ.  I have 7 balls of EQ in my yarn stash just in case I feel the need.  I have knit with Kauni EQ more than any other single color of yarn.  I may have knit with Twisted Fiber Art more than Kauni but not with one color.  

I made a wall hanging when I was in my 20's using the slipped stitch technique and my Gram put net on the back so it wouldn't stretch.  It hung on my wall for many years.  I was so proud of it.  It seemed to me after finishing that I got this knitting thing.  It never occurred to me that this was a complex technique.  I just rolled up my sleeves and jumped in.  I even taught myself to read a chart since this pattern was in chart form.  Now let's take a look at my Dovetail.

Isn't it beautiful!  I love the pattern but don't get the Dovetail name.  There's nothing that looks like a Dovetail to me.

Ahhhhhh!  Yummy!

Everything always looks better on Lydia.

Remember when I told you I read, reread and listened to Poisonwood Bible on audiobook?  I really did much the same with Dovetail Shawl.

I decided to knit Dovetail again using 2 balls of Kauni EQ starting at different color points.  This is going to be amazing.  I can't wait to show it to you.

​I just realized my last two posts support each other.  They are both about my love of reading and knitting.  I didn't realize how aligned knitting and reading are in my brain.   I've really talked about 3 loves; Dovetail Shawl pattern, Poisonwood Bible and Kauni EQ.  Give me these three any day and I'm a happy girl.