another quilt finished

MJ and I got together and used some leftovers to make a cheery crib quilt for Medical Team International.  We work really well together and design on the fly.   Fast and fun - just what I hope for the Piece-a-thon.  Getting lots of good responses already.  It's going to be a FUN birthday!


Dave asked how long it took to make the Aran sweater.  I had it at two different knitter's teas, so that means it took over a month.  I lost several good knitting days to second sleeve syndrome.  I get so annoyed with having to do exactly the same thing all over again that I just give the whole thing a time out.  Since I wasn't knitting, I was picking at my cuticles and chewing my fingernails.  When I got down to the quick I realized what was going on, bit the bullet, and finished that silly sleeve.  Then I whipped right through a stranded color work tea cozy - double-sided.  Now I am inspired to try some double-knitting for another tea cozy.  No seconds of anything there.  I also have some black sock weight alpaca for short-finger gloves for DH, but at least I have a 40" circular so I can magic loop and knit them both at once.  I do best with one project at a time. Well, andI  like to have something mindless to knit in the movies.  So two projects at a time.  I'm thinking of setting up a seed-stitch moebius scarf, but there really aren't any movies I'm dying to see in the near future.

BUT, When John Carter of Mars opens, I want to be there.  I read everything Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote when I was in my early teens.  He was terrifically prolific.  There was Tarzan, of course.  There was the John Carter of Mars series.  There was a series set on Venus and another series set in a wild hidden country inside the earth's crust (Pellucidar).  All with mighty, noble heroes and beautiful, succulent, noble heroines and all strictly PG but just voluptuous with sensory details. A great deal of my sense of How a Story Should Be was shaped by Burroughs, Jules Verne, and Rider Haggard.  Ripping tales from the turn of the past century.

Who did you read when you were growing up?