Finally!
I finally started knitting today. I have totally been playing hooky from the project that's due in less than a week. I don't know what happened but I totally fell off the wagon! It's not that I haven't been thinking about it. Oh, I have! I just couldn't get the mojo going. I'm feeling pretty motivated. I've done all of the math. I've made all of the swatches...Now if the knitting gods are kind to me I can whip this sweater out in a few days and make the deadline! Once I finish this I have a couple of personal pieces to knit...which I'm seriously looking forward to. I feel like I haven't done my own stuff in so long. (plus, Vinterbloms with metallic pink yarn???!!!)
The weirdest thing happened to me last week. I received two fed ex packages with yarn in them. I didn't order any yarn -- I'm almost off yarn consumption because I have about a barnful of yarn in my apartment that I probably will never get to the bottom of in my lifetime!! I don't know who sent them. I don't recognize the companies. One of the boxes was full of some new prototypes for some new company (I'm guessing). And since I don't know who sent it I feel like I can say it is total crap. Acrylic blends? Faux organic labelling? I mean can anything acrylic really be organic? It's slightly offensive to jump on the "green" bandwagon for crapp acrylic blen yarn sales. That box will be headed off to a school for the kids to knit with. I try to supply them with really great yarn but I'll give it to the youngest knitters who are super rough on the yarn. They will love the colors and I've found that color over content wins every time with them!
The other box was filled with cashmere! soy/silk blend! the softest baby blue merino! and I'm forgetting the 4th. But a BAG of each yarn. 10 BALLS! A SWEATER PER BAG! WHO SENT THIS TO ME? all I can say is...Thanks. really. thank you. I seriously don't need any yarn but hooo-ya it's nice to get it! While I'm knitting for the next 3 days I'll think of how to use this new yarn. Maybe the sender will come calling and want to see samples? And maybe I'll be ready??
In other news, I went to the Joffrey Ballet's Spring Workshop last night. It was held at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at NYU. It was pretty amazing. Everyone from the tiniest little ballerinas to professional dancers were there dancing. It was seriously impressive. They danced to Mendelsohn, Tchaikovsky, Prince, the Fray, Schubert, and a bunch of others that I can't remember. I can't really equate this to a normal ballet recital because it was so much more. And the dancing was...well, so much more. What does a ballet recital look like from a suburban ballet school? Would it be this impressive?? I know mine weren't! I overheard some of the girls talking about the Nutcracker - as in they had been in THE Nutcracker. I guess they were about 10ish. Can you imagine? Can professional dancing ever live up to that?
The weirdest thing happened to me last week. I received two fed ex packages with yarn in them. I didn't order any yarn -- I'm almost off yarn consumption because I have about a barnful of yarn in my apartment that I probably will never get to the bottom of in my lifetime!! I don't know who sent them. I don't recognize the companies. One of the boxes was full of some new prototypes for some new company (I'm guessing). And since I don't know who sent it I feel like I can say it is total crap. Acrylic blends? Faux organic labelling? I mean can anything acrylic really be organic? It's slightly offensive to jump on the "green" bandwagon for crapp acrylic blen yarn sales. That box will be headed off to a school for the kids to knit with. I try to supply them with really great yarn but I'll give it to the youngest knitters who are super rough on the yarn. They will love the colors and I've found that color over content wins every time with them!
The other box was filled with cashmere! soy/silk blend! the softest baby blue merino! and I'm forgetting the 4th. But a BAG of each yarn. 10 BALLS! A SWEATER PER BAG! WHO SENT THIS TO ME? all I can say is...Thanks. really. thank you. I seriously don't need any yarn but hooo-ya it's nice to get it! While I'm knitting for the next 3 days I'll think of how to use this new yarn. Maybe the sender will come calling and want to see samples? And maybe I'll be ready??
In other news, I went to the Joffrey Ballet's Spring Workshop last night. It was held at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at NYU. It was pretty amazing. Everyone from the tiniest little ballerinas to professional dancers were there dancing. It was seriously impressive. They danced to Mendelsohn, Tchaikovsky, Prince, the Fray, Schubert, and a bunch of others that I can't remember. I can't really equate this to a normal ballet recital because it was so much more. And the dancing was...well, so much more. What does a ballet recital look like from a suburban ballet school? Would it be this impressive?? I know mine weren't! I overheard some of the girls talking about the Nutcracker - as in they had been in THE Nutcracker. I guess they were about 10ish. Can you imagine? Can professional dancing ever live up to that?
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