Dilemma

Sweaters. Or scarves. Or shawls.

I was thinking at the beginning of the year that I was going to make a list and know ahead of time what I would knit. But I'm not sure that's going to work out. I mean, I started a Mr. Rogers Cardi-Along on Ravelry (don't ask, let's just say...I said something, then I made a sparkle gif at the sparkle gif generator and suddenly there's 30 odd people knitting cardigans together). I wasn't planning on a sweater this year. And then I went to see the second replay of Coriolanus and fell in absolute love with this:

Can you see it? Can you??!

It was all I saw, I'll tell you that. Oh, his performance was stunning, I enjoyed the whole thing immensely, but every time Mark Gatiss walked on stage, all I could see was that sweater. 

It's long, I can tell that much. You can see the bottom edge there next to his left knee, between his pant leg and that darker brown patch on his duster. It's got the sleeves -- I'll leave out the hole in the elbow (which you can't see in that picture), but what really got me? 

The scarf. 

That scarf around his neck is, I believe, attached to the back of the sweater. It never moved, not once, except when he threw the ends around his neck. Even then, it did not shift from side to side. Not at all. 

So now I'm thinking I need to reverse engineer a sweater like this. Long sleeve, long body, long scarf attached at the neck -- maybe buttoned to the neckline, so I can wear the sweater with or without the scarf. Maybe...five buttons, so the attachment point is very secure. I don't know what the front should look like (the sweater was never buttoned, and the front edges always fell under the duster he wore over it), but I can bodge something up.

Anyway, until I saw this movie, I had no plans to make a second sweater, much less the first one. If I'd planned out my knitting for the year ahead, I'd have to shelve both sweaters in order to keep to my list! 

I guess it's a good thing I never got around to it, isn't it?

Happy "Marvel's The Avengers" on DVD and Blu-Ray Release Day!

It's a holiday in my house, how about yours?

I went out early this morning to get my shopping done. See?


I got my blu-ray and a pack of cards. I collect cards with interesting backs, and I hadn't seen the dragon back version before. Way cool. The candies I will confess I cheated with in the picture -- I got them this past weekend. Dove Caramel and Sea Salt. Mmmm. According to Dove (in the person of these three candies), I have a great laugh, I should believe in myself and the more I praise and celebrate my life, there more there is in my life to celebrate and praise.



Kudos to me, then.

Yes, my blu-ray is still in the wrap. I've been working today. For a change. Some new inspiration came into my life a week ago, and today I was feeling it. Well, I was rather feeling it than the pernicious nerves that have been plaguing me of late, so I worked. Working worked, as I had no palpitations while I was writing, although I will confess to giggling once or twice.

Perhaps I should do that more often.

In knitting news:

The start of my firstiest sweater for me! Isn't it pretty and purple?

To celebrate the dual accomplishments of my week thus far, I made myself Butter Chicken using my favorite sauce-in-a-jar, Sharwood's (oddly enough, Butter Chicken is not listed on their Indian cuisine page; I think it must be listed under a different name) and am noshing as I type this out. God, it's good. I may belch fire later, but for now, I'm content.

And now I will wrap this up so I can move on to the next part of my day -- washing up my pots and dishes, then getting the plastic off my blu-ray case and devouring the movie and extras like dessert.

I needs me a hit of Loki.