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First, let me show you my Sunday Night Ritual knitting. This is the Manos for the Man-a-long, seeing this makes me think of the Flannery O’Conner story “A good man is hard to find” which we oh so hip college students always called “A hard man is good to find” so suddenly my man-a-long is a call for a long man, wink wink, nudge nudge. My long man is a practical kind of guy who likes cardigan vests, not pullovers, not sweaters, but cardigan vests. His wardrobe makes Mr. Rogers look like the after version of a Queer Eye for The Straight Guy makeover. Finding the perfect knitting project for him has been wrought with frustration. I think I finally found it in Nancie Weissman’s Classic Knit Vests for Men and Women I’m spicing it up a bit with the two color thing, which he disapproved of when he saw the skeins but likes now that he can see it on the needles. Phew.
Last week I stopped by a local knitting shop in search of Shaefer’s Miss Priss in the Mr. Funny colorway, I was hoping to finish up that shawl in time for fall. I had called earlier in the week and was told they had it in stock. They didn’t, but the owner, who knew me from my previous visits (I spent my “due dates” with each child in her shop, relaxing with my knitting) offered to call the rep for the company and have her stop by - she often has lots of Shaefer in her car and might just have what I was looking for. I should also add that earlier this year, I was the recepient of two packages, both from Dawn in the DC area, who sent two skeins each of two different unnamed Schaefer Esperanza colorways. The yarn has been teasing me for a while now. When I close my eyes and picture my stash, those skeins are the first thing that I see. Anyway, I had an appointment with the rep today at 1:30 and I brought those skeins with me, on the off chance she could name them and might have an extra couple of skeins in her car, just in case, you know?
The store was packed with women, if you ever wondered who spends $50.00 on novelty yarn to make scarves for each and every member of their family, come to my yarn store. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone in there picking out yarn for a sweater, afghans - yes, a hat or two maybe, but this yarn store is like no other. So in comes Elaine, the rep - whose name is also one of Schaefer’s most popular lines with a body bag size container of Schaefer. We worked together for an hour and decided on one skein of Miss Priss, one of Little Danya both in the Mr. Funny colorway to finish out my shawl, one skein of Esperanza in Indira Ghandi, two skeins of Elaine and one more of Esperanza in Babe Dirdkidson. In some ways it was like a scene from The Wire, they were all doing “hand to hands” (2-3 vials of crack at a time) where I was getting “weight” from the higher up the ladder. And while I wasn’t afraid of the police busting me, I did do a little inhale when the total appeared on the register and I handed over my credit card. Hello, my name is Amy and I am an addict.
Leigh left a great comment about the term chic-lit yesterday and I do think I could do a whole post on just that term, but I cushion my dislike of the term with the fact that lit is short for literature. And like any subgenre there are some great writers and there are some very, very bad ones. The fact that the Shop-aholic got published in the first place amazes me as much as the fact that Lisa Jewell’s novesl haven’t gotten nearly enough press. I read, I read alot - right now I’m reading both The Secret Life of Lobsters : How Fishermen and Scientists Are Unraveling the Mysteries of Our Favorite Crustacean
by Trevor Corson and Baudolino by Umberto Eco and while they are both interesting, I don’t think I’d stay up till 2:00 in the morning, knowing that I’d have to get up with Alex at 4:30, to finish either book. Where as I couldn’t make myself put down Little Earthquakes. So it may never win the National Book Award, but it did win my Stay Up All Night award - a true sign of good literature!
Finally, until I rebuild my list of links, here is another of my favorite bloggers, Kathleen in Long Island -> http://katyknits.typepad.com/katyknits/
29. September, 2004 at 18:25
Very nice Manos. And I am jealous of personal meetings with the Schaefer rep. I love Schaefer yarns and her Memorable Women are just phenomenal. Oh, and I am honored to be a favorite blogger.
Thanks.
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