I've nicknamed by thesis "Animal," after Animal from the Muppet Show. Because seriously, it's getting out of control. The first chapter—which is just the introduction—is already 20 pages long and I still have another section to add. Perhaps I'm being a bit too ambitious. The Top Gear motto comes to mind: Ambitious, but rubbish. I'm hoping that I can get around the rubbish part.
Anyway, I finished a few things and thought I should do the right thing and post about them.
This is the Triple Cable Muffler (duh) from One Skein. I had a skein of Blue Sky Alpacas cotton and thought I'd do something with it. I think I'm going to send this to my grandpa so he can wear it while he's on his boat.
And here is my completed butterfly tam. It's big enough for me to stuff all of my hair into the back, which makes me happy. I know I never put myself up here anywhere, but my hair is pretty long right now. Take my word on it. I am on run three of growing my hair out to donate to Locks of Love. I still have about two inches to go. Hopefully it'll be long enough at the end of the summer.
I'm realizing now that I never introduced Gretchen properly.
Gretchen is my Singer dress form that I bought from Joann.com a few weeks ago. I posted about it at some point I think. Anyway, her name is Gretchen, inspired by "Gretchen am Spinnrade" (op. 2, D. 118) by Franz Schubert. In my other life I am a vocalist and I specialize in art song. Schubert and R. Schumann are my favorite Romantic composers, and I sing their works often. Something about her singing at the spinning wheel makes me think of making clothes/being crafty, so I thought the name worked well. (What you're seeing in the background of this picture: my tv playing an episode of Futurama, a stack of Futurama DVD sets [with season one of Batman:The Animated Series and The Magnificent Seven thrown in], one of my lockers full of video games, a folded up DDR dance pad, posters for two of the three movies I'm writing about in my thesis.)
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