August 09, 2006

Yes, this Linen Jacket. Well, I finally got off my procrastinating bee-hind and cast on for the first sleeve last night.




I tell you: When you get intarsia in just the right amount and this little amount is used to great effect on a sleeve, there is no such thing as Sleeve Island. Good knitting fun.




"My name is Tal-lu-lah, my first rule of thumb..."

*I don't like weaving in ends when I do intarsia. When I don't have too many rows or stitches over which to strand yarn, I just carry the yarn up as I go. (I've done this for the other stuff I've knit in intarsia.)

What I'm currently watching while knitting: Bugsy Malone. We just got it on DVD and boy, does it bring back the memories. Bugsy Malone was one of my favorite movies when I was a kid. I saw it when it came out in theaters in 1976 (oops, my age is showing) and a little while later, when it came out on HBO (remember when cable FIRST came out and HBO only had one channel?). My mother taped it on our VHS and I and my siblings watched that tape so many times that when I watched the movie today [after almost 30 years!] I was able to sing along with ALL of the songs and I still know the tap dance routines by heart. Tap, tap.

In other trivial news, I have a new afternoon snack of the moment: Petit Lu cookies with chocolate chips dunked in Candia milk. I don't usually dunk cookies - and I mean NEVER, not even Oreos - but boy oh boy can I go to dunking town with these cookies. I just ate about 10 [gluttony, thy name is Rabbit] and I could have kept on going. I like to call it it knitting fuel.

That's it for today. It's a laidback day. Monsieur Le Hubby is home so I'm heading off to the fabric store in search of muslin, and then I'll go to the gym to do some free weights. I'll be sure to work my foot muscles a little more because I've got some seriously fun SEWING I'll be doing next week and I'm gonna be revving my sewing machine pedal :-) [Revs pedal.]

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