Remember how I used to knit?

And then post about it? I swear, I've still been doing the former, while neglecting the latter.

First, a 2007 FO for my cousin Annie:



Kusha Kusha scarf from Habu. I bought a kit at Nina. Part of it is knit with cobweb-weight merino knit together with silk-wrapped steel; the rest with just the silk stainless steel. Need to mail this alleged-Christmas present off.

Also, I am very close to finishing 3 sweaters: the Green, the Blue, and the Red. How close?

Well, here's Green:


Blocking as we speak.

Here's Blue:


To be done: blocking, sewing, and knitting about 8 feet of i-cord. Shudder. I can't block it right now, as it is from the same magazine as red, which has been 50% done since early December. No pic on that one, since it's at Mr. Z's right now. Will you accept a picture of my Venezia with fully 3 more rows done since the last pic in December? I hope so.



So that's the knitting. I'm being very slow on finishing my first book of the year (Alex Ross's The Rest Is Noise), in part because I've been studying a great deal. In other news, I have a job now, and am about to have a very nice new job. No clue how much time I'll have for knitting once I start, so I'm trying to crank some projects out.

Prolix, prolix, nothing a pair of scissors won't fix...

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For my Masterpiece Complete Austen-watching friends

I know a few folks here have watched the first two entries in the Masterpiece Complete Jane Austen series. Please, tell me:

-Was Northanger Abbey just far and away better than Persuasion? I mean, the guy who wrote the screenplay for the really good Pride and Prejudice also worked on NA, so my instincts say yes. However, I might be biased, because...

-Was the guy who played Henry Tilney really rather attractive? Not quite Colin Firth in P&P levels of attractive, but higher than Hugh Grant in S&S?

"Both" or "Neither" are also acceptable answers. Please, tell me.

Prolix, prolix, nothing a pair of scissors won't fix...

Summary only...