Robin Goodfellow

I have found my home on Ravelry: Folklore and Fairy Tales.

This group is really active in a cohesive way: every season they have a read-and-knit-along with a certain fairy tale and its retellings, and they have themed swaps. The fantasy buffs there are articulate, friendly, and capable of silliness. Which is the best one can look for on Internet communities. I love it!

This summer they’re doing A Midsummer Night’s Dream, as the theme. This sparked off a great idea for using a beautiful roving I got as a gift…

a gluttony of fiber-kinds

It *was* awesome.

But it wasn’t mine yet. And with Puck on the brain, I decided to add a little chaos.

The Stuff

One strand is just the roving by itself, but the other has bits of greens, pinks, purple, and bright blue. Since the original roving had glitz, blue-string junk, natural off-white wool, and cotton or silk or mohair or bamboo, but most likely some combination, it’s a sort of whimsical yarn.

bright chaos

My literary theory behind this “Puck” is that Robin Goodfellow, though established as a prankster who amuses Oberon, is the only one in the play operating without motive, without blindness caused by fairy mischief (received or inherant). He’s the stable force in a crowd of madness.

“Believe me, king of shadows, I mistook” he says when his dispensing of the potion to the wrong couple is found out. The plea is sincere, concerned.

Puck ~ Agent of Good?

This is one of those yarns I got tired of before I finished it–the hand-selecting of the colors does that. It doesn’t flow, it chugs… But that’s what I like to have made, so I guess I’ll just have to keep chugging away.

I carded up some pink stuff that will be a little alike, but I already added my own touch. It will be less labor-intensive, yea-yah!

That will be somehow dedicated to the other fairies. I’ll be watching for a clever title on this reread…