Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Plugging Away

Work on St. Brigid is not swift. Add to that the realization that because this is a pieced sweater and not steeked, I have to knit 2 of everything, and sometimes I want to cash it in. But then I look down and see what I've got and I just can't walk away...
It does continue to be eerily easy to knit. I think that all those years of doodling celtic knotwork have paid off because now I pretty much have the pattern in my head and the charts are only there for reference if I need it. Also, not using a cable needle speeds things up a lot. Cable needles are really fiddly and annoying, always tucking the ends out of the way and generally causing me to do more stopping and starting, and I drop the darned things a lot. At this point I have ditched the stitch markers as well, and as much as it is possible for the rows to fly by, they're flying.

So there's plenty of knitting satisfaction going on with this project. I'm really trying to stay monogamous with this one as I did with Rosarie, and hopefully before end of April I'll have another FO for the pile. I think I'll get the Hub to put on his Durrow and I'll don the St. Brigid and we'll have a photo shoot full of celtic goodness.

One thing I have noticed is my penchant for purple. I can't explain it, I certainly wouldn't characterize it as my favorite color, but I do seem to be knitting lots of purple. Secondary colors in general, because my project page on Ravelry has lots of green there as well. I am waiting to see how orange fits in there when it inevitably happens. Orange is not a color I remotely prefer, but I look really good in many shades of it. Ah, well, who knows.

On the Bollywood front I have now seen Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham, which apparently in Hindi means "lets all cry for 3 and 1/2 hours". Beautiful men crying is definitly worth the time investment. Also we had HappyGoth and her husband and Jen over Sunday night for indian food and Asoka. Let me tell you, an angsty SRK with long hair does not suck.
Thanks to the Tsarina for the recommendation.

Aside from the knitting and the Bollywood, life is going well. The chicken is happy and laying, the fish are tooling around all fresh from their winter naps and the cats and the hamsters are crazy. Not together, that would be a bad kind of crazy, but they're all nuts. Kind of like me. Oh, well, back to cable insanity!

5 comments:

evilsciencechick said...

I sincerely hope that's milk.

Tsarina of Tsocks said...

Hee. The only reason I didn't recommend KKKG in the first place is that I assumed you'd already seen it when HappyGoth did. It is of course a must. As is "Kal Ho Naa Ho" (wait, I mentioned that one last time, didn't I). As are the canonical SRK/Kajol vehicles, like "Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge" and "Kuch Kuch Hota Hai" (despite - or maybe because of - the high goofiness quotient). Also, if you can stand another 3-1/2 hours of crying over some very hot SRK... do NOT miss "Veer-Zaara." Srsly.

Mouse said...

That photo gives the phrase "Got Milk" a whole new meaning....

Happygoth said...
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Happygoth said...

Dang, man.

Just... dang.

Ve larka bahut chota nehi hain.

Not at all.