I came up with the title of this entry when I was in a much better mood this morning. Now I'm in a LOUSY mood, and will make this entry a short one. But I've been feeling guilty for not blogging more, and thought I should at least keep up with my lazy-ass once-a-week pace.
The reason I was in a great mood this morning and am now a very unhappy camper is that a fantastic, too-good-to-be-true design opportunity fell in my lap on Friday, and just as I was blogging about it this morning, it was cruelly snatched away from me. Too good to be true indeed. However, I'm trying to take away from this experience inspiration to get cracking on submitting a bunch of ideas I have. In fact, I have tomorrow and Wednesday off from work and was planning on working on sketches and swatches, until this amazing project came my way and I thought I'd be working on that. So, now I'll just go back to the original plan, perhaps with some more fire (or ire!) propelling me onward.
Meanwhile, the Garden Shawl is progressing very well; I'm about 10-12 rounds away from starting the edging. They're very very long rounds, mind you. I've also done some work on the plain knit part of the Ring top, but I've mostly been doing that while watching movies.
I had a fun time yesterday knitting in The Park (that's Central Park to you non-New Yorkers) with a bunch of HYUKs (that's Hip Young Urban Knitters, according to Lily Chin). They were nice... I shouldn't be afraid of hip knitters, even though I think of myself as more of a traditionalist. (Hence the lace shawls and Fair Isle sweaters.) Perhaps all those years of adolescence never fitting in with the cool kids left a bit of a scar.
I loved looking at your gallery -- lovely sweaters. I came here after reading Knotology and her mention of Knitter's Way. Can you tell me what the group is about?
Posted by: Rob | July 13, 2004 at 04:47 PM
I'm sorry about the loss of the design opportunity Alison, but you are so talented, more will come your way!
And if you would like I can send you some Fun Fur So you can be a hip knitter too LOL!!!!
Posted by: Lynnette | July 13, 2004 at 07:04 PM
I'm wanting to say something about doors closing and windows opening, but I don't want to toss out cliches. Still...the best IS yet to come.
Posted by: Sharon | July 14, 2004 at 10:00 PM
Thanks all!
Rob - The Knitter's Way is a group of knitters doing The Artist's Way program, a 12-week course in recovering your creativity. It's a book by Julia Cameron. Click on the link on my sidebar to join the yahoo group, or click on the book on my sidebar to read about it on amazon.com.
Posted by: Alison | July 15, 2004 at 11:18 PM