Holy Cow! My friend Kay has completed her Cloud 9 shawl and designed a fierce ruffle to finish it off. Today(or last night maybe) she posted the free pattern on her blog(My Savannah Cottage). She wore it to our friend Rachel’s wedding in Columbia Square(historic Savannah) and wowed everyone.
Our knitting group planned to wear our own handknits to the wedding. Mine was to be the Affair to Remember skirt from Annie Modesit’s book Romantic Knits. As usual, I didn’t meet the deadline, so my knitted garment was a Juicy Couture cashmere sweater, not handknitted by me, but ferosh none the less.
Our friend Tracy provided a bunch of gals with her innovative handknit shawls that were at Wild Fibre, our knit shop, where the bride was getting ready, and wearing a handknit, by Kristin, cashmere/alpaca heirloom quality lace shawl. She wore it as a veil and then as a wrap with her wedding dress and looked very classy and gorgeous(I’d say fierce or ferosh, but I seem to be overusing that word). I didn’t get to be in on these gettin’ the bride ready festivities at the knit shop because I was at the reception site getting all the fresh flowers set up(everything was fresh and very clean and elegant, if I don’t say so myself).
The main reason I did not finish my skirt was that I was doing the flowers for the wedding party and the reception and decorating the reception venue. When I offered to do that for Rache, I had no idea how time consuming it would be, and how nerve wracking meeting the deadlines would be, and that the week of the wedding would bring a lot of sleepless nights and working into the wee hours of the morning. However, I do treasure the experience because it brought so much enjoyment to the attendees and to the bride and I did learn a lot. When I can get pictures, which I do have, uploaded here, I will show them to you.
OK, let me just say that getting pictures on one’s blog when one is technologically impaired is so a “hot-tranny-mess”, to quote my favorite-of-all-time Project Runway competitor AND winner, Christian Siriano. If I could figure it out, my blog would be a whole lot cooler and more interesting! So…sorry about the no-picture-showin’ mess! I’ve been trying to get my friend, The Yarn Bearer, to come over and bail me out, but our schedules are not coinciding, so I’m basically screwed for the time being. The worst part of that is that I know I am probably doing one miniscule thing wrong in trying to download images and will feel like a total feeb when I finally figure out my mistake.
Now, enough about that and on to the topic of Christian Siriano. That boy is ferosh! I thought I was one of his only fans in America until he won the Fan Favorite on the reunion show. I felt so thrilled for him and so vindicated with my knitting group since nobody in it but Kay(My Savannah Cottage) liked him. It was a real “nah-nah-nah-nah-nah” moment. Anyway, I adored his little smart-ass self from the very first show, thought he was the most talented and thought he would win. Yeah, I called it, booyah, booyah!
When my boy Christian won, I cried, not sobbing, but a few tissues worth. Partly, it was a relief when he won ’cause that mess was so suspenseful and I was rooting for him, but he started to cry and appeared to be so genuinely surprised and touched, that it was a very poigniant moment, and I am a softie. Anyway, my friend Kay has the link to the Saturday Night Live spoof about Christian on her blog and it is worth checking out.
Well, until I get pics up to back up the text on my blog, it will continue to be a lame-sans-pics tranny mess. When I figure it out, I will edit pics into my previous blog entries.
Sayonara, Sweethearts! Until next time, knit, purl, and be merry!
Julia, your decorations were marvelous and elegant, and you are so sweet to flog my blog! Keep up the good work!
Love, k.