Had a serious startitis attack yesterday. Began a sweater and then a pair of socks on 1.5mm needles. Why? Because I finished two large circular shawls in the last few weeks and I'm not finding anything in the WIP pile that gets me excited. I'll get back to all you languishing projects, truly. But I need inspiration.
And how could I not find inspiration in Ann Hanson's Highlander? I have a merino and cashmere yarn to knit it in and found even the set up for the thing vastly entertaining.
The backdrop to the project was the movie My Dinner with Andre. Such a rant, so long, with the occasional interesting idea/notion tossed in to keep me from turning off the thing. Can't say I didn't like it (enjoyed wouldn't be the right word here) but can't say I did like it either. Mostly I'm puzzled about why anyone would bother, doing this as a rant and not a movie, exploring the ideas. Very odd experience listening to this rant, there was nothing to 'watch' which made it good for starting a knitting project.
The other project I started yesterday is a sock in a fine alpaca yarn, probably the needles are too fine, but I wanted to try them, so here we go.
Now off to the doc's to get blood work checked out and see if my blood pressure is behaving itself.
Likely not, I'm on my second cup of decaf this morning and that can't be good.
