and knitting

It's just another Wednesday. The calendar's full of 'em.

I've been especially busy lately busy solving quaint village mysteries, but today I'm stuck at home with the creeping crud, so here are a few, not necessarily very fresh, links.

Various and Sundry Links - January 31 2007

- .217 inch knitting needles, or size needed to obtain gauge.

- Yarn = Not Safe For Wallet

- I've always thoughts wigs would make wonderful winter weather head gear.

- Am I the only one who sees this piece and thinks We ♥ Katamari?

- I still love Le Bourdain even if he doesn't dislike that Ilan nearly as much as I wish he would.

- Top Chef spoiler discussion warning (though I can't believe there's a soul left who isn't already spoiled )! I, myself, am wishing against all logic that Marcel will be the winner [via Amuse-Biatch].

- Acechick's wonderful tour of the New Brutalist Brunswick Centre.

- The rules are simple: I put the self-timer on 2 seconds, push the button and try to get as far from the camera as I can. [via Metafilter]

- The Soviet Roadside Bus-stop [via Driver2165]

- Go Sweden!

- Le Train Bleu has some gorgeous sweaters on sale.

- I took driver's ed a very long time ago. I never bothered to get a driver's license (maybe I should have included that in my weird things about me post), but the films we watched have stuck with me. One of my favorites was Last Prom.

- Itsy bitsy knitted baby bootees

- I just love these Alexander Girard Wooden Dolls.

- playscale

- I can't believe I'm reduced to linking to something cat-related.

Five Things

Five Things About Me That I Don't Think I've Posted on My Blog, but Have Already Told to My Bored Real-Life Friends

(Be sure to thank Irene)

- My first job was working at a tree farm at the unfortunate age of 14. I was kind of a dork, but it was here that I learned the difference between a hoe and a ho.

- I saw Jurassic Park 12 times. In the theatre!

- I was a hand and body double in a music video for a really bad pop song that came out a few years ago. No, I won't link to it, because it's embarrassing, and I also think they Paula Abdul-ized me a bit. However, I can say that I'm likely to be the only person you know who has been in a 16-year-old pop singer's pants (ba-dum-ch).

- I was a vegetarian for two years, and didn't eat red meat for ten. Now I like my steaks rare.

- This will probably get me drummed out of the knitting blog community, but I do not like cats.

I tag Yahaira (even though she won't do it), Janet and blogless Newlin.

New Project / Finished Project #40: Easy Peasy II

Happy New Year!

I'll spare you the excuses for why I've been so absent from this blog and from commenting on others.

At least I can start 2007 off right by posting a finished project.

They don't come much simpler than this. It's just a simple, garter stitch on the bias scarf, with a row or two or three of eyelets thrown in here and there. I had tried using this yarn for the Lost in Translation scarf from Mother of Purl. The yarn had a bit too much going on for that pattern and I decided to rip it out. The sparkle factor of the yarn was calling to me this Christmas season so I decided to go with a simple on the bias pattern I had used before. It's not the sort of knitting project that you can find much to post about, but I like how it turned out.

To make the project more interesting here are a few self propagated rumors about why I used the Self-Conscious Mysterious Face Finished Project Photo (shown above).

1. I am practicing to become a 14-year-old YouTube girl.
2. I have a lazy eye like Paris Hilton.
3. I am the Phantom of the Opera.
4. I am curious (yellow).
5. Blog absence was necessary due to Extreme Makeover gone awry.

The Project: Easy Peasy II
The Yarn: Karabella Gossamer in Olive with Copper purchased from KPixie
The Needles: US7 Brittany
Started: December ? 2006
Finished: January 2 2007

I finished the scarf this morning while watching the amazing documentary, Why We Fight. It was a somewhat disheartening way to start off the year, but I highly recommend watching this film. If you are so inclined, you can even view it right now via Google Video.

No various and sundry links today. I've been marking all of my bloglines subs as read for the past few weeks. I'm so behind that I might post a link to something shamefully 2006 and I can't have that!