Random Monday

1. I took this picture last week. I'd love to see behind that wall. Where there are giant fake, artsy trees, there is other good stuff. It's, like, the law.

2. I finished sewing up Flicca this weekend, buttons and all. I need to at least steam the seams aggressively and possibly wash it before I can wear it though. It's hanging a little stiffly. But it fits perfectly — Anna can draft a sleeve cap like no one's business!

3. I've had this song in my head all day. Love.

4. I realized this weekend that now that Flicca is done, I don't have a simple knitting project in the works. I went over to Zoe's on Saturday to watch Anne of Green Gables and eat her delicious lasagne and I had no knitting. Everything I have going requires charts and directions and looking. I mean, whatever, it's not that big of a deal. I can (and did!) certainly watch and enjoy a movie without it, but it's nice. So yesterday I started a top-down raglan pullover in some handspun mohair/wool. I really love this yarn. I thought I had posted when I finished spinning it all, but I can't find it. I mention it at the bottom of the post here though.

I wanted something simple that would show off the yarn and saw an angora pullover in one of the Rowan books (A Season's Tale, I think) that had eyelets along the raglan lines. It was just enough detail to keep it from being completely plain and still showed up with the fuzzy yarn, so I'm confident that even if the nap raises considerably as it's worn, I won't lose the eyelets. This yarn is more or less sportweight and I'm knitting it on the loose side to maximize drape.

5. We determined that guys — even the most sensitive of all the guys we know — wouldn't really appreciate Anne of Green Gables. It requires a certain kind of feminine sensibility, to either be or have been the sort of little girl who would have renamed a flowering tree-lined road White Way of Delight.

6. I had a dream last night that contained the following line of dialogue: "She's got a sad story, but she hasn't gone sad."

7. I went to the opening of the Rococo show at the Cooper-Hewitt last week. I was glad that I got to see it for free because it's an aesthetic that I have a hard time appreciating, but there are some stand-out pieces to be sure and it's well worth seeing if dec arts are your thing. I went out with some people after and ate my weight in potato skins, which was definitely the highlight of the evening for me, but I'm a philistine — don't take my word for it.

Comments

[Gina]

Ooooh, that line of dialogue is particularly striking to me given my recent chain of events. I really like it. I do want to be the girl who does not "go" sad.

[Heather]

Agh!!! I LOVE that line from your dream. You must put it in fiction somewhere.

[claudia]

Indeed, what is behind that fence? Is that razor-wire on the top?

[Zoe]

A suggestion- Knit a scarf on the next movie day...scarves are the perfect thing to knit when watching movies. And you can never have too many. That's what I plan on doing.