Last night, Fox and I went out drinking with our friend GA (wearing Tankerific in the photo below). I had a few too many drinks and Fox had to help me up the stairs to my aparment, sometime around 1am. After sleeping in until 11am this morning, I woke up and had cold, left-over pizza for breakfast/lunch. I'll be 30 in October and I am just now getting around to acting like I'm 20.
The only non frat-boy-like qualities about last night are, 1) I got drunk on girl drinks: white russians, white wine, some big blue drink that tasted like peaches, etc.; 2) we went to a drag show; and, 3) afterwards we went to GA's and drank some more white wine and listened to Frank Sinatra. Ok, maybe I'm not turning into a frat boy, but more like a, hmm, I don't know, any normal GAY MAN.
Speaking of gay men, there was some actual knitting that took place this week. I finished a large square of Noro Kureyon that I am going to felt into a bag. However, I am going to wait to felt it until I finish some other squares made out of more Kureyon and Lamb's Pride Bulky. I am going to attempt some intarsia knitting with the Lamb's Pride. Perhaps little dots of color a la Cecilie Telle.
I started Le Pull Col Tunisien. After completing two, count them, TWO 20cm swatches to get the correct gauge, I finally cast on and knit about 5 inches of the back. I then realized I made the M1 increases wrong and had to frog back to the increase row to fix the gaping holes under the increases.
Also, I received a package in the mail yesterday from Theresa! It's an old Pingouin men's pattern book. There are a bunch of super cool cabley, arany, type sweaters that I am adding to my list. Thanks Theresa!
Do any of you out there know about any men's pattern knit-alongs? This, I feel, is an under represented area in knitting blogdom. Would any of you out there knit along with me if I started a knit-along? Maybe if I hear from a few of you I will organize something. That is if I ever settled down from my new frat boy lifestyle...
I would love to join a knit-along for a man's sweater. I have afew to knit for Christmas!
There is a nice one in the latest Interweave. It has a simple basketweave pattern and a zipper polo collar.
Posted by: Georgina | 05 August 2004 at 05:12 PM
Cool! Thanks for all the interest in a man's sweater knit-along. Let's wait until the weather cools down and we can start in the fall.
Posted by: mouse | 12 July 2004 at 10:16 PM
If you wait, I have to frog and then redo a sweater for my husband...I've got a number of things to do first, but I can start a men's sweater along in the fall....
Posted by: Karen | 12 July 2004 at 03:56 PM
I think you should de-bunk the boyfriend sweater myth. I did, and one break-up, one get-back-together and six years later we got married. He wore the sweater in the ceremony. Who knows, maybe the power of faith in sweater can get those darned Republicans out of office and allow us to have gay sweater marriages. Wouldn't that be nice? Ooops, was I being political on a blog? Well, it doesn't happen often, but sometimes it just slips out. Make Fox the sweater, and if you wait til fall to start it, I'll make Moxie another with you in a knit-along. No more wool for a few months!
Posted by: Julia | 12 July 2004 at 02:35 PM
hi,
I would love to join you. I have a cousin or two that I want to make something for so, this would be good.
Posted by: | 11 July 2004 at 09:41 PM
Mouse, Fox has instructed me to inform you that the "boyfriend curse" is a myth, and to please knit him the, I assume, Skully sweater from Stitch 'n' Bitch? As to whether is counts with gay couples, I'd say it depends on how long you've been together, and how supportive Fox is during your knitting of this fabulous sweater for him. After all, only a truly wonderful man would knit this for his boyfriend despite all truth to the claim that the boyfriend curse does exist. However, I have both successfully and unsuccessfully knit sweaters and sewn quilts for my boyfriends in the past. Perhaps with a knitalong I will finally get over my fear and knit my really gorgeous husband of three years a sweater of his own--because I've been too terrified to even do that, because of my bad experiences. Not everyone has my own bad luck, though. Before I got married I was like Cher in Moonstruck. "You were married once before and it didn't work out." "Yeah, Pop, because the guy died." "And why did he die?" "He got hit by a bus!" "No! Bad luck!. . . .Don't get married, Loretta, it don't work out for you."
Posted by: Rebecca | 11 July 2004 at 11:37 AM
Great sweater choice to knit. Those cables are fantastic.
Posted by: froggy | 11 July 2004 at 06:16 AM
Rebecca -
PLEASE tell mouse that the "boyfriend curse" is a myth. please please please. There is a sweater I desperately want him to knit for me (it has skulls on the sleeves) but he cites the Curse as a reason not to knit it. The Boyfriend Curse doesn't count if it's a gay couple, right?
Posted by: Fox | 10 July 2004 at 10:35 PM
Well, I'm usually knitting at least one man's sweater at any given time. I think I'm in the middle of four at the moment. So I'd be happy to do another one in honor (and observance) of a knit-a-long. Especially if there are any fitting sessions which would involve cute guys wearing not so much clothes...
Posted by: Jon | 10 July 2004 at 09:58 PM
I'm sure if you organized something, they will come. Not everyone has the boyfriend curse after all, some of us are married and others are men...
Posted by: Rebecca | 10 July 2004 at 07:36 PM