Here's the latest on the knitting: I am currently making a pair of 'Solar Mitts' from the Rowan RYC Accessories book. I'm amending the pattern slightly as I have too many fingerless gloves so my version will have a complete thumb and then a little flip-top to stop my fingers getting too chilly. So I finished the first one a couple of weeks ago, here it is minus the flippy top, which I haven't quite worked out yet.
Then I started the second one but had to postpone it whilst I worked on another, more urgent project. So last night I finally got going on it again, I sat down in front of Sense & Sensibility and knitted up from the cabling, finished the thumb and was about to move on when I realised the horrible truth: I had just knitted another right-hand mitten! Nooooo! I was so annoyed, I had to rip it back to the cabling again and by that time it was 11.00 and I was ready for my bed so this mitten is now right back to where it was when I started, angh! Fortunately the weather is just drizzly at the moment and not really cold enough for gloves so the lost time isn't a major problem, but still. Tonight I am going to sit down and concentrate and follow the pattern for the left-hand mitten. This is what comes of being overconfident with mittens...
So, other than that disaster I also had a rather large success in that I made my first bag on my sewing machine. I had soo much fun making it and it's gorgeous, I will have to take some glamour shots tonight and post them up here because I'm so pleased with it. It's all I can do not to stop strangers in the street and say "Look, you see this, this glorious example of a bag, I made it", whilst beaming proudly.
And, while making the bag, I caught up on some films I've been meaning to watch for ages and never got round to. The first was Howard's Way, which was on Film4 on Friday so I recorded it. It is a long film, almost three hours, but despite this I rather enjoyed it. It's so beautifully made and Helena Bonham Carter and Emma Thompson are just fascinating as the two bourgeois sisters who are at the centre of the film. It also made me wish I was living in the Edwardian era as the costumes are divine. If I could dress just like Emma Thompson in that film I would be happy. Give me a bustle over a miniskirt any day!
I also watched Raising Arizona, and despite not giving it my full attention (I was doing something tricky with bag handles at the time) I also liked this very much. I tend to enjoy the Coen brothers and had been told that this one was a classic. Even Nicholas Cage wasn't as annoying as he usually is. It's light-hearted without being cutesy and contains a whole heap of amusing quotes, my personal favourite was "Son, you got a panty on your head" which may say something about my state of mind at the time. But the whole script is genius and the Southern accents and dialect are a delight!








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