Competition
While Anne and others are gearing up for blue ribbons at their state fairs, I am competing for computer time with my husband, who started a new gardening blog . When the thrill dies down, I’ll try to answer everyone’s wonderful emails and comments. Until then, you’ll find me at my spinning wheel, trying to figure out how to put a little less twist in my yarn.
On the couch with Oprah
I mean Elizabeth:
1. What is your favorite movie soundtrack? If your life had a soundtrack, what would that soundtrack be and why?
My gut reaction is Pretty In Pink, that soundtrack got me through High School and when I hear any of the songs today, I am instantly transported back to a brief wave of happiness amid a sea of awkwardness.
If I could pick my own soundtrack for my life so far, it would be made up of:
The Cure – Just Like Heaven
The Dead – Estimated -> Eyes
Indigo Girls – Love’s Recovery
Phish – Bouncing Round The Room
Green Day – When I come around
Dave Matthews Band – Crash
O.A.R. – That Was A Crazy Game Of Poker
Dan Zanes & Father Goose – Hokey Pokey (yes, you put your right arm in ..)
2. If someone said to you that a woman who knits cannot call herself a feminist, what would your response be?
After I stopped laughing, I might ask them what the connection could possibly be. I can’t paint or sing or sculpt masterpieces out of blocks of marble, knitting is one of the few mediums I can manipulate and explore. Also, my knitting is my connection to the women in my family and my heritage, and if I can’t honor and respect the women in my past, how can I honor and respect women in the present or the in the future. Luckily, the feminist movement in America isn’t organized like the Catholic Church, we don’t have a head feminist who can declare knitting a sin against women and feminism, because if we did, I’d probably be brought up on charges of heresy, and not just for knitting, but for a whole host of other issues.
3. What has been your best blogging experience? Worst?
The answer to both is the Great Stash Redistribution Project – which had such promise, and many people enjoyed, but I let the criticism get to me at a point when I was particularly vulnerable.
4. When deciding whether or not to knit someone a gift, do you have any criteria to determine if someone is “knit worthy”?
My gift knitting has been, for the most part, a failure. Now, if someone asks, I’m more than happy to, but other than a new baby, nobody gets my handknits but me, and that now includes my children as well.
5. Do you have a guilty pleasure, if so, please tell all!!
It used to be ice cream, but now it is probably “Queer as Folk.” I’ve run through all the past episodes on DVD thanks to Netflix and am eagerly awaiting the next season. I’m a sucker for gay porn, and gay porn with real storylines is too hard to pass up.
Thanks, Elizabeth, this was fun! I’d love to interview you – leave me a comment and I’ll put on my thinking cap.
Round Up
First – Mom’s Fast Florida Footies by LynnH at Colorjoy. These are for my mom, for mother’s day. Quick, easy and I tested the first one, so they should fit fine. Cascade Fixation – Blue
Next – 
Cravet from Teva Durham from an old issue of Interweave Knits – The yarn is Manos Cotton. Lovely, isn’t it?
And everyone knows who this is by now, yes? I know everyone’s been gushing about Stephanie, which is totally deserved, but can I tell you that the reason the line for the booksigning took over an hour to get through? She talked, not just chatted, but talked to every person in that line. It was like we’d been knitting and chatting all our lives. Truly spectacular. Look out tiny diva, Stephanie will knock you off your thrown without even trying.
and I went to another book signing this weekend, mine! Here is me signing a book (and not for my daughter Cate.)
You will notice I am wearing my green bamboo/interlacement’s shawl -which I love and lived in this past weekend. I wore it Friday night to see Stephanie, I wore it to an engagement party on Saturday night and then to the book launch party on Sunday. The only people to comment were the wonderful knitters on Friday. Should I be worried?
I’m going to need more time to answer those great questions – I’m still in a post orgasm glow from yoga!
Off to yoga
but when I get back, I plan on aswering Elizabeth’s questions,
1. What is your favorite movie soundtrack? If your life had a soundtrack, what would that soundtrack be and why?
2. If someone said to you that a woman who knits cannot call herself a feminist, what would your response be?
3. What has been your best blogging experience? Worst?
4. When deciding whether or not to knit someone a gift, do you have any criteria to determine if someone is “knit worthy”?
5. Do you have a guilty pleasure, if so, please tell all!!
Catching everyone up two book signings – mine and The Harlot’s and … actual, honest to goodness, knitting content. I know!
Be back after a what I call “orgasm yoga” – it would be a guilty pleasure if it weren’t so good for me!