Two Finished Things
I finished two things this week. This is one of them:
(My first hat! My first cable stitches!)
This is the other:
(Blurred for Spoilers, and because first drafts are not meant for Mortal Eyes)
With both the hat and the novel, I found that I started going faster and faster as I approached the ending, and that has led to the last bits of both projects being a bit messy and wild. Fortunately I can revise the novel, and the top of that hat doesn't really show when I am wearing it, unless I happen to be around enormously tall people.
[Tangent question for my knitter-friends: is it sensible to assume that if the leftover yarn I have weighs more than the finished hat, I could knit another one with it?]
In other news:
My husband and I went to see Cirque du Soleil last month when they were in Boston. The show was Amaluna, and I loved it. The underlying story was loosely based on The Tempest, but with a mostly-female cast (Prospera played a mean electric cello, and had an all-girl backup band and a host of Amazon warriors).
One of my favorite acts of the entire show was "The Balance Goddess": one performer, holding the entire audience captive as she built an enormous structure of carefully balanced wooden ribs. There was a bit of music to start, but eventually it all fell to silence, until all that was left was her breathing. It was absolutely mesmerizing!
This TED video doesn't capture the beauty and power of the live performance, and the performer is not the woman that we saw in Boston, but it's still pretty magical and stunning:
And now I am off to wander around listlessly in post-novel ennui for a bit.
(My first hat! My first cable stitches!)
This is the other:
(Blurred for Spoilers, and because first drafts are not meant for Mortal Eyes)
With both the hat and the novel, I found that I started going faster and faster as I approached the ending, and that has led to the last bits of both projects being a bit messy and wild. Fortunately I can revise the novel, and the top of that hat doesn't really show when I am wearing it, unless I happen to be around enormously tall people.
[Tangent question for my knitter-friends: is it sensible to assume that if the leftover yarn I have weighs more than the finished hat, I could knit another one with it?]
In other news:
My husband and I went to see Cirque du Soleil last month when they were in Boston. The show was Amaluna, and I loved it. The underlying story was loosely based on The Tempest, but with a mostly-female cast (Prospera played a mean electric cello, and had an all-girl backup band and a host of Amazon warriors).
One of my favorite acts of the entire show was "The Balance Goddess": one performer, holding the entire audience captive as she built an enormous structure of carefully balanced wooden ribs. There was a bit of music to start, but eventually it all fell to silence, until all that was left was her breathing. It was absolutely mesmerizing!
This TED video doesn't capture the beauty and power of the live performance, and the performer is not the woman that we saw in Boston, but it's still pretty magical and stunning:
Click to viewAnd now I am off to wander around listlessly in post-novel ennui for a bit.