Everyone, thanks for your kind words about our Catty. It's strange: now that she's gone, it's almost easier for me to remember the times when she was healthy than it was when she was ill. We loved her a lot, still do, and are missing her - but we both feel a little better now.
This week has been nutso. I'm being packed off to Basel yet again, and missing Art Basel by only a week! Grrr. Also, I made an impulse decision to buy a Gocco and make our wedding invitations, so I've been designing away and waiting for Gocco to arrive. At this point it doesn't look like it will arrive before I leave, so I'll have to attack Project Magenta or Apricot Bicycle, as I'm calling it, once back in the States.
Before I leave I wanted to check in for a couple of sneak peeks.
First, I bought yarn for the Viennese Shrug, which I'm planning to wear at the wedding if it's chilly.
I couldn't think of a more perfect excuse to splurge on some Road to China (Ravelry link), but I finally couldn't decide on color or neutral (silvery grey, rather than the light beige they make) and bought both. Still, I am finally convinced of the wisdom of apricot, I think. If you've never felt Road to China, you are MISSING OUT. Whoa. It's soft.
With a little luck, there will actually be a finished project up here soon! I am working on subliminalrabbit's adaptation of Bella's mittens from the Twilight movie as a gift for a friend. This is actually shaping up as one of my favorite mitten patterns - so long and lush. Here they are, thumbless, in School Products cashmere:
As embarassed as I am to confess falling victim to the Twilight saga, well, there it is. Stephenie Meyer's politics are troglodytic and her writing is just awful. And Breaking Dawn almost ruined it for me. And yet, and yet . . .
And now: Guacamole!
Twilight is terrible isn't it? Every rational part of me wants to hate the books but I read all 4 in about 2 weeks. I couldn't help myself.
Posted by: Emily at June 11, 2009 10:43 AMTwilight is terrible isn't it? Every rational part of me wants to hate the books but I read all 4 in about 2 weeks. I couldn't help myself.
Posted by: Emily at June 11, 2009 10:43 AMI love the sneak peak picture of your mittens! They look beautiful, even if I can only see a tiny bit of them. I can't wait to see the finished project!
Posted by: Allyson at June 11, 2009 11:23 AMi'm with both of you on the twilight thing. it's like...a car accident. you always look. you have to.
Posted by: anna at June 11, 2009 11:24 AMi agree about twilight. it's like i don't want to love it, but i do. and so many good knits in the movie. your bella mitts look like they're going to be very squishy and warm.
Posted by: thuy at June 11, 2009 1:18 PMi know, twilight totally got me. i read the first two books whilst on bed rest, i read them three times in row. ack.
then i forgot because i had the twins. when the movie came out my friend informed me that there were two more books, which i consumed at a ridiculous speed.
and then i watched the movie with my husband, mom and mother in law. that was weird. but i am looking forward to movie II. how, how does this happen to grown women? just a sucker for a vampire story.
cannot wait to see the gocco.
Posted by: mamie at June 11, 2009 3:00 PMunfortunately i can't wear anything with the slightest bit of alpaca in it. i thought i could happily live an alpaca-free life until i felt road to china. that is, quite possibly, the softest and prettiest yarn that exists. i am contemplating knitting myself a sweater out of it that has a secret pocket filled with benadryl. :)
Posted by: melissa at June 11, 2009 4:12 PMI'm with you on the Twilight series - I was so dismayed by the last one.
I love guacamole...
Posted by: Jo at June 11, 2009 6:58 PMI think it was very generous of you to say the Breaking Dawn *almost* ruined the series for you. I was so dismayed by the way the plot was going, I sat and read it straight through with my mouth hanging open. I think if I had waited to see the reactions to it first, I may not have been so shocked by its horribleness :D
I think we should all be past the embarrassment that enjoying Twilight brings. There are enough of us in that boat to hide behind one another, if need be!
Posted by: Wanett at June 11, 2009 9:50 PMI can't wait to see this adaptation of the mittens pattern. Hurry!
Posted by: Debbie at June 12, 2009 12:02 PMI read the Twilight series. Once. It is not one I will pick up again to reread. I am very glad I borrowed the books from the MIL and I didn't buy them. All Bella does is waft through life waiting for Edward to 'save' her. ARGH.
Posted by: Carol at June 12, 2009 1:07 PMI call the Twilight series literary crack - it's terrible, and yet you have to have more. Three days of my life I won't get back, $12 for two hours more of excruciating film, and the certainty that I'm helpless to resist seeing the other three.
I did make those mittens, though, and I love them too.
Posted by: Windansea / Lydia at June 12, 2009 6:21 PMBella's mittens... I want to knit them next winter... They are gorgeous and I love the Twilight series. It brings the teenager in me!!! The guacamole parece muy buena...
Posted by: Maryse at June 14, 2009 10:59 AMI'd never heard of Gocco before - looked it up and it seems like a great little machine. Please post how it works for you. The one thing I learned from hand-making my own invites was never do the hand-calligraphy yourself - I made so many mistakes and probably scared the neighbors with my cursing.
And always happy to look, think, and eat guacamole!
Posted by: Delica at June 15, 2009 5:31 PMooooohhh! I have a craving for some guac now! (Pretty yarn too)
Posted by: Rachel at June 15, 2009 9:15 PMI wasn't able to finish the first Twilight book, I was cringing every second sentence... and yet I went to see the movie! *Love* the apricot btw!
Posted by: Val at June 18, 2009 1:53 PMI totally hear you - Twilight is ridiculously bad, and yet I couldn't put the stupid books down. I don't know what it is. :D
Posted by: Jen at June 18, 2009 9:31 PMhooray for mittens!
okay, so, this shrug - just a warning, having knit it up myself recently... and knowing that it's for a very important occasion in your life... the thing is BIG. bordering on MASSIVE. proceed accordingly...
(i can measure my final gauge and after-dryer-slightly-shrunken-but-still-too-large version for you if you want a more accurate idea of BIG/MASSIVE - just let me know. ;) )
Posted by: marri at June 22, 2009 4:54 AMSo sorry about Catty. I lost Tinycat a few weeks ago so understand how you feel. Luckily, she was only suffered for two days. I have a new animal hospital right around the corner from me and they were so very kind to her that I am making them a basket of cat toys for the kitties who are cured.
They made her death so beautiful and loving for her that I am planning to go there when it's my turn to go.
My dad was a hobby printer and we had a Print Gocco in the 1980s--it was SO COOL and my brother and I had a blast with it, as I'm sure you will:)
Posted by: Heather at July 2, 2009 11:28 PMIt's nice to read similar opinions of Twilight. I'm tired of seeing other people gushing about it. It's easy to say that Stephanie Meyer isn't a good writier, but she got all of us, didn't she? Did you know she started to write a version of Twilight from Edward's perspective? It will make you as contemptuous of him as you are of Bella...
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