knitting!

So I've been paying for this blog site for awhile but have been procrastinating on getting it up and running. I've decided to use it as a forum for my knitting projects, writing projects, textile design projects (of which I'm really only an assistant on). I'm halfway through seedstitch poncho monotony from Knitting Pretty by Kris Percival. She's a Maine girl like me, and uses lots of Maine produced yarns in the patterns. My poncho is in Bartlett--a warm gray color for the body, which leans toward brown/sepia, and a natural color for the overcast stitching, maybe some fringe. This is a really mindless project that is great for TV watching on a cold, rainy Sunday, which is exactly what I did. One caveat: if you're a beginner or have never knit in seed stich with an uneven number of stitches, you may need additional language on when to knit and when to purl. I'm ambivalent about this book--she gets points for the Maine things I mentioned earlier, but the graphics demonstrating stitches are really small and hard to read, and I think it could have included some more difficult patterns--a beginning knitter won't get much mileage out of this book.

Next is Kyoto! And some small felting projects, and a cable scarf from leftover Bartlett natural colored yarn for my little brother.

In non-knitting news, I went to the New England Mobile Book Fair and bought a number of new things, including Kenneth Lapatin's Mysteries of the Snake Goddess, which reads like an academic mystery novel. While I'm on the topic of academic mysteries. I watched Posession yesterday, the film version of the A.S. Byatt novel, which I've read probably 20 times over the years. I loved the victorian sections of the movie, very true to the book--I didn't even mind that the woman playing Christabel Lamotte wasn't rail thin, as she's described in the book. But Gwyneth Paltrow and some ridiculously attractive American guy playing Oxbridge academics? Why? I also watched Hugh Jackman on Inside the Actor's Studio--he's the most well-roundedly sexy celebrity I can think of at the moment.

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[Cassjul]

Tracey-

Don't miss out on the knitting section of NE Mobile Bookfair - There is usually a good selection - best being in the fall. This week, the selection was mostly baby knits. I did get Vogue American Knits, which I was psyched had many of the patterns I was looking for - those that I knew were in the collection of mags that were lost in a move awhile back. Now I do not have to bid on ebay for them!

You have a great site and I love the name!
Cassjul