Progress

[liralen]

I took all my courage in my hands and got the neck steek and both armhole steeks crochet locked and then cut.  Aiee...

And then I put the shoulders together with an I-cord bind off and... gosh... it kind of looks like a sweater now!  My goodness.  I could even slip it on like an extra-long vest and it's really not too big for me at all!  I'm pretty amazed.  And the colors are really gorgeous.  I'm going to really have to work on the neckline, though, as it's not quite what I was thinking from what I saw in the book's pictures.  So I'm going to have to figure that out, still.  *sigh*

I have the sleeves yet to go, but now I know how wide to make them, and a deadline for the end of the month (which is much closer than I thought), as next month's art show at church is going to be various knitted items by the congregation.  It should be interesting to see if I get this in the show or if I just forget about it and finish John's kilt hose for the UNICEF potluck this coming Sunday.  Or I might do John's hose when I get too tired of the intricate cuffs... but once I get to the sleeves proper, there's no reason to not just motor on the straight stockenette sleeve.

Except...

I can't figure out what quote I wanted to use on the sleeve!  Meep.  I don't want to use the Bible quote Meg used on her sweater.  It's not the Apocalypse for me.  *laughter*  I was thinking of a Harry Potter quote while reading all the stuff about the Order of the Phoenix and beyond and it's very popular. But... I don't *like* Harry enough to have him on it.  I need something soon, though, and I'm not quite enough *there* to figure out what it is that I want.  I don't think a Balrog quote is appropriate.  I really want something Phoenix related.

Comments

[marith.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. I forget, do you like Terry Pratchett? There's a phoenix in Carpe Jugulum and probably some good quotes, if you want me to look...

[liralen.livejournal.com]

I love Terry Pratchett. Now I want to go back and read all three dozen books and peer for good quotes of all kinds. Carl just sent me a dozen quotes that might be good even if they don't have anything to do with a phoenix.

I'm so *glad* I posted the question.

I'd love to see anything you find, too!!

[marypcb.livejournal.com]

David Wishart mentions that the Romans thought cinnamon quills came from the nest of a phoenix...

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Thank you, David! :-)

Mmm... cinnamon from fire birds...

I like that a lot.

[marypcb.livejournal.com]

he has an excellent series of Roman detective mysteries with the Marlowe-esque but married Marcus Corvinus; that nugget was from Parthian Shot, about Parthian princes, the spice trade and lampreys

[rephetibel.livejournal.com]

You cut into that sweater? Excuse me, please. I need to lie down in a dark room for a while.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

I needed a good lie down and a drink after doing it, too.

I really appreciate what you write. *laughter* It makes me feel like it's really okay to be nutty before doing something like taking scissors to something I worked eight months on. *aieee*...

[flit.livejournal.com]

"Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix"

--Christina Baldwin

http://en.thinkexist.com/quotation/change_is_the_constant-the_signal_for_rebirth-the/167869.html

The nicest thing that Google gave me. :)

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Mmmm...

It is nice... I just wish I knew who Christina Baldwin was...

incandescensfound a quote in Latin that I may go with which is pretty close to this, but also different in a way I appreciate...

Omnia mutantur, nihil interit.

"All things change, but nothing is lost."

From Sandman, which is more my generation, I think, than HP... though I was also playing with a Latin translator, but I think the grammar is wrong somewhere...

I like the Gaiman Latin, though. Hm....