School is hard, y’all

I don’t really know how much time it’s been since the last time I posted, but comments kept coming, so I thought I’d come back around here. School is hard. I’ve barely had any free time in the past month, let alone time to read and/or blog. Now it’s midnight, I’m wide awake, and I felt like writing a bit. Maybe some bullet points will make my randomness more “look, he can organize seemingly unrelated ideas properly” and less “look at that piece of unstructured prose over there.”

- I looked at pictures from Spring 2010 fashion weeks, and I was kind of underwhelmed. As usual, I loved Burberry Prorsum, Rag & Bone, Yves Saint Laurent, and (oddly enough) Alexander McQueen. As usual, I hated Marc Jacobs (Kabuki theater? Please, that disaster of a fashion show was obviously inspired by homeless people), John Galliano, and Louis Vuitton. I thought Prada was meh, as were most of the American designers.

- I haven’t had a lot of time to read lately, but I am becoming such a Neil Gaiman fanboy. He is awesome. I just can’t get enough of “Fragile Things” right now. I wanna be like him when I grow up!

- I used to think Marketing was a fun subject, something I could’ve done if I hadn’t chosen International Business as my major a long time ago. And the class was cool… for about two weeks. Now it is the most annoying, time-consuming, boring 3 hours of every week. Okay, maybe not the most annoying (Statistics takes THAT particular prize), but it is not enjoyable at all. I miss not having homework and/or quizzes every once in a while.

- I got a Chuck Bass haircut, inspired by awesome editiorial he had in the July edition of American GQ. I like it.

- I think I’m gonna add my 2009 reading list to this blog. EDIT: It’s done, AND it has Amazon links!

A very scarfy issue

My name is Francisco and I am a scarf freak. I’m at that stage in my knitting “career” where I guess I could go on in many directions and learn to do different things, but I just love scarves too much! I think it all stems from when I used to be in a musical theater company, and I had to take care of my throat. Culiacán (my hometown) is a hot, humid place, so wearing a scarf to fight the temperature ups and downs that come with coming in and out of buildings with AC into the outodoors sauna that is the weather there is a MUST when you want to maintain a somewhat acceptable singing voice. I always sucked at singing, but the scarf thing sure stuck.

Anyway, I am in a dilemma. My friend Georgina requested a scarf inspired by the star sweater seen in the new movie “Coraline”. I’m excited to knit it, but I am at a loss as to how exactly to make it.

1. Imitate the original pattern: velour stars on finished scarf. In this case, I would knit it in stockinette or garter stitch, make the stars out of white velour, and sew them on the finished scarf. This way would probably make me feel better, because I would be doing what they did to the one in the movie, but I’m afraid the stitches will show on the other side of the scarf, and it will look sloppy. Not to mention how making the stars in velour sounds like a lot of work, because it involves ironing and some weird sticky fabric…

2. Sewing felt stars on the finished scarf. I read this article in an old KnitSimple magazine about a scarf that is knit in garter stitch, and then has felt stuff stuck on it with fabric glue. That sounds like a much simpler way of doing things, but again, I am worried about how sloppy it could look. And then there’s also the issue of whether if I should buy synthetic felt, or make my own and risk screwing up.

3. Knitting each star and sewing it on the scarf. I was linked to a pattern to knit stars on Ravelry, and I must say it does sound like a promising idea… I do have enough white yarn to make the stars, so it could look good. The thing is, should I sew them on or glue them? Sigh, these decisions are so hard.

I’m currently leaning towards the garter-stitch-and-knit-stars convo, but I’m still considering the others… Any ideas, fellow knitters/readers who would like to chime in?