2 posts tagged “dragon shawl”

Here we are, the promised pictures of my recently-finished dragon shawl.  Looks damn awesome, if I say so myself.  No long-winded nattering about the details of it, since I have been informed that that is boring.  :P   Feel free to ask though, if you want an earful.

I suck at Nablopomo.  -shrugs- Sorry.  I mean, it's not that I don't have interesting things happen to me all the time, just that I don't think about blogging about them everyday.  I'm usually busy, you know, experiencing them.  Also, it's been something like 2 weeks since I had a night home by myself/got home before 9pm.  So, when I did have time, I just wanted to chill and not have to worry about being under pressure to do something like blog.

That being said, lots of fun/interesting things have happened.  Where to start? The most recent are easiest to remember.  Or perhaps to group them into categories. Here goes:

Knitting: I've been working on my dragon shawl, mostly.  I'm just starting the third repeat of the pattern, so I have a ways to go. Still, I like how it's turning out.  I would take pictures, but it's hard to see very well.   I did a swatch the other day for the tunic I'm going to make, and will probably take that to SnB to work on this week.  Yummy, silk/cotton blend in a nice light green.  I finished my cowl as well, and am pleased with it, despite having to rip out the bind off and redo it.  It's very awesome, and I'm supposed to take pictures at some point.  I got into trading stuff on ravelry, and now have a hand-dyed skein of alpaca and a skein of blue/green sock yarn.  I also bought some really nice alpaca to make a pair of fingerless gloves with - the new Sourwood Mountain pattern from Knitty.  Unfortunately I need to learn cables before I can do it - it's supposed to be fairly difficult.  However, the weather has taken a turn for the worse, so I'm sure I will be able to get them done and still have time to wear them a bit.  If not - well, there's always next winter. 

TV/Books: Did i mention I finished Hana Yori Dango, both seasons?  I was happy with the ending, for the most part.  Of course, now the Korean drama that's a copy of it is all over the place here - they even have F4 fajitas at On the Border.  Let me tell you, Hanazawa Rui's Korean counterpart is not as attractive, especially when drawn with an oversized head on a shrimp's body.  But in general, the whole Korean cast is not as attractive.  Especially Korean-Makino.  She's supposed to be cute, but... no.  

Since then I've vague cravings to watch  the last season of Doctor Who that I never got around to, but I've been watching another drama, Taiwanese, Romantic Princess.  The lead guy is growing on me, and the lead girl, Xiao Mai, is beautiful as well as really sweet.  But she's also naive as fuck and kinda annoying at times. She tends to do things without thinking (like getting engaged to play a prank on someone she doesnt like. I know, right?) It hasn't annoyed me enough to stop watching, so I'll keep going.  I also watched the pilot for a an American drama called Damages that Jon was pestering me about. Still haven't gotten to True Blood.  (shh... don't tell him).

I got a book from BookMooch a few weeks back, and picked it up last night.  I liked it so much that I finished it

tonight.  It's the first in a trilogy, and I'm sure I have the others on my hard drive.  It's called Pillars of the World, by Anne Bishop.  She's a pretty famous fantasy author, and though I have read some of her stories before, in the fairy tales collections, I think, I had never gotten to her novels, despite that I bought one this summer on sale at Bamm.  Oh well, now I have, and I think I will enjoy the rest as well. 

I've been working on another audiobook as well, when I'm knitting at home, or jsut when I don't feel like listening to music.  I'm continuing with the Sword of Truth series.   I always liked Stone of Tears, though there are some parts in the middle that drag a bit, and I'm about halfway through it right now.  I still haven't decided if I will listen to the books I haven't read yet on audio, or read them first. I guess it depends.