Been in a bit of a knitting fug this week.  I have lots of projects to work on, but nothing was tripping my trigger.  And I didn’t really even have startitis although the possibility of starting some new and wonderful project is, of course, always there.

This is especially embarrassing because I started the Secret of the Stole project with the idea of learning something and acquiring some self-discipline and now - well at least, at the moment - every time I look at it, I think...eh… That will almost certainly change in time, but right now I feel like I’ve bitten off - not more than I can - but more than I want to chew.

I keep leafing through stitch patterns, looking for something (or even a couple of somethings!) to attract my attention.  God knows there’s plenty of material but so far, nothing has presented itself as an absolute must-do.

I’ve been scouring knitting and crochet sites on the web.  Have you seen the Flying Bats Scarf?  Very cute and funky.  I think I’m going to write that bit of lace into a chart and then think about how it might be used.  I saw the pattern over a week ago and it’s been hovering in my consciousness ever since.  And you all know how I feel about bats :)

Myotis: The Shawl?  Heheh…

I saw a movie last night that I liked enough to recommend - a British film called The Riddle.  It tells a parallel tale of murder both in the present day and in the past.  These murders are connected by a heretofore unknown manuscript of Charles Dickens.  Derek Jacobi is always worth watching and here he plays a dual role to very good effect.  The surprise (to me) was Vinnie Jones who plays the journalist who is caught up by these murders, both past and present, and who has to figure out what exactly is going on.  Jones was wonderful and inhabited the character of Mike Sullivan fully and believably.

While the movie is a bit slow in spots (it runs 116 minutes) it generally moves along pretty well and I found the ending quite satisfying and fitting.  On the other hand, the reviews of it that I could find (and there are surprisingly few of them) were all along the lines of “...the only riddle is how this ever got made”.  All I can tell you is that I liked it.

Chatters is on for tomorrow night - same time, same channel :) Holy knitting needles, Batman!

Have a great weekend :)