It's about time he found out I was a home girl.

Well pooh; the first incarnation of this post went up in a poof of smoke. Gentle reader, I assure you that the first version was filled with sparkling wit and poignant insight, and this recreation simply pales in comparison.

So he says 'I gotta go home on Sunday.' So I says 'Why do you got to?' So he says 'they always expect me home on Easter Sunday.' So I say, 'what do they expect you to do? Lay an egg?'"

I spent a lovely evening relaxing and knitting like a fiend. I am impressed with how far I got on the frilled sweater from Rebecca. This attempt is so much better than my first. I've even resolved my tension issues between my knit and purl rows by just learning to r-e-l-a-x on those knit rows. Dare I say that stockinette is not even annoying to me right now? All I have left now on the back is to do the bind off rows to make the armholes. That is what I call progress!

I've had two years to grow claws mother. Jungle red.

I did most of this knitting while watching one of my favorite films, The Women. If you have never seen it do add it to your Netflix queue. I have seen this movie so many times that I nearly have it memorized. It stars a hard-edged Joan Crawford facing off against a maternal socialite Norma Shearer over the affection's of Shearer's husband. It seems that Ms. Crawford and Ms. Shearer did not get along famously.

"When she had to sit off-camera and feed lines to Shearer during Shearer's close-ups, Crawford, knitting furiously and noisily, never made eye contact with her co-star."

The cast is incredible - and there is not a single man to be found. There's also the hilarious dialogue that you would expect from Clare Booth Luce and Anita Loos. The gowns by Adrian are also stars of the film. There's an absolutely incredible Technicolor fashion show sequence that you have to see if you are at all a fan of vintage clothing.

Get me a bromide - and put some gin in it.

The film was remade in the 50s starring June Allyson, but please don't bother to watch it. There's also a new version in pre-production. With the dearth of good roles for women in film right now I can understand why someone would be drawn to do a remake, but they should restrain themselves. It's slated to star Meg Ryan, who should restrain herself from having more collagen and botox.

Anyway, back to my knitting, I also worked on the sleeves for the Frida tank. It seems I have a bit of a yarn shortage for this one. I thought I had another ball of yarn, but it is nowhere to be found. Somehow I don't think this will turn out as well as it did over on this post at passionknit. I think I'll just have to knit up some smaller straps and call it fini. It's not like I'm ever going to wear the darn thing anyway.

Comments

[nanc]

Thanks for the movie recommendation. I'm off to NetFlix!

[kitten]

OHMYGOD that is my favorite film of all time "you're passing up a swell opportunity Mary where I spit no grass grows ever!"

[Amy]

I love love love this film and totally have a girl crush on Paulette Goddard. That line is so funny!

[india]

hey is the frilled scarf in that issue of rebecca written in english I wanted to knit one too, but if it's not an english version I won't be able to unless the german versions are equit with english translation pamplets too! Let me know!

[Christina]

I love that movie too. I shudder at the thought of a remake of that. Especially with Meg Ryan. That's just wrong.

[jillz]

The frilly sweater is coming along very nicely!

I'm going to add that movie to my netflix queue right now!