Dear hearts,
If you've
been with me since the beginning of this adventure, you know that designer
Fiona Ellis and I are kindred spirits. She was among the first to produce a
pattern with one of our yarns–the
beautiful Re-Gathering Intentions–and has done it
again with exciting results.
Fiona, like your present correspondent, is compelled by
insatiable wanderlust. Born in England,
she now lives the life of an expatriate in Canada; even so she cannot help
seeking new horizons.
Last year she lived abroad for an extended time in
Buenos Aires, Argentina. There, bewitched by the colors and textures of the
city, she captured a stream of vivid images...
...and
grew fascinated with the city's
fabled tango culture.
The tango as it is danced in Buenos Aires is no prim,
arid combination of steps to be taken across the floor in between sips of cream tea. It is self-evidently, as dear Robert Frost put it, "a vertical expression of a
horizontal desire." He wasn't speaking specifically of tango,
so far as I know; but he might as well have been.
Fiona is herself a dancer; so it surprises me not in the
least that the sinuous movements and unique beats would have influenced her to
design Milonga in our own, dear Steamer Trunk.
Milonga is the name for a tango gathering...
...and in this
asymmetrical (but perfectly balanced) cardigan I detect the swoops and turns
and clutches of a tango pair in full flight.
If you'd like to join the dance, Milonga is available via Ravelry.
I'll
be pleased to burn the floor with you any time, Fiona darling.
Yours Ever,
Mrs. Crosby
Mrs. Crosby
San Francisco, California
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