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January 24, 2007
SPC, Lies and Videotape
So here it is, practically February, and I haven't made any New Year's resolutions. However, this month's Self-Portrait Challenge, which I'd resolved to be better at doing, is all about (wait for it) New Year's Resolutions.
I'm a chronic resolution-breaker, so here are some things I'd LIKE to do:
1. Knit my fucking stash. I have not achieved SABLE, but I could do a boatload of knitting with what I've got.
I think you all know how well this is going to turn out. You were all right, I DID buy yarn yesterday. But it was just one skein! And it called to me! Really! I heard voices!
Seriously. How was I supposed to resist? It's Yarn Place's Graceful. Now I just have to figure out what to do with it. There's 2400 yards, so I could do just about anything in Victorian Lace Today, or I might do the Icarus shawl from the summer '06 IK. However...this yarn is yellow.
2. I might have to wait to knit it until April. The first cluster of colors in Project Spectrum 2.0 is blue/white/gray. Hmph.
3. I had this crazy idea that I might stick my toe into the dark side of fiber arts - crochet - but ONLY to do lace collars, but instead I've signed up for a sewing class. Nathan's Faire clothes wound up needing a lot of mending last year, and they're so nice, I feel like they ought to be mended properly from now on. And, boy, would it be nice to be able to actually MAKE a costume. Also, I'd like to learn blackwork. It seems reasonably do-able, but I have a lot on my learning plate.
4. Lose some damned weight. This is not optional. The reasons are myriad. My current weight is not healthy, I feel like a slug, I have an important dress to buy, and ISM isn't going to want a third set if I don't de-fatttenize myself.
5. Be a better photographer. Shoot more, blog more. I've actually been pretty good about the shooting part. I just haven't blogged so much. The pictures I've been taking are mostly on eBay.
6. See?
7. Write more poetry. I wrote a bit last year, and I enjoyed it immensely. I've found that poems of upheaval and yearning are easier to write than poems of stability. But I'm always up for a challenge.
That seems like enough for the moment. I've already walked to the post office this morning to mail some jewelry I sold, so maybe I'm not off to such a bad start.
Comments
Yup. Yarn Porn.
Posted by: bob at January 24, 2007 11:25 PM
Hah! Look who I stumbled upon in the dark corners of the blogosphere?
Hi. It's Peggotty. The yarn you bought is seriously yummy. Where did you get it? Article Pract? Tell, tell!
Anyway, um...hi!
Posted by: Artemis Rich at January 25, 2007 6:12 PM
And I totally agree that upheaval and yearning is a better muse than stable and satisfied any day of the week.
quintet and glass is all I'm saying
Posted by: bob at January 25, 2007 10:32 PM
stash.jpg is awesome!
Posted by: YM at January 27, 2007 8:27 AM
I have a ball of Graceful, too, but haven't really decided what to do with it. You're right, it does speak to you, that sunny colorway is lovely!
One of the clerks at the Yarn Barn in Lawrence, KS, where I bought Graceful, warned me the yardage is more like 1800, instead. She said they've asked for the lable to be changed, but it's not been done, yet. That could be true, and it could be she wanted me to buy two of them.
Posted by: Laura at January 31, 2007 6:56 AM