Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts

Thursday, April 15, 2010

The Naming of a Cowl

I have always been fond of naming things.

Just ask my mother. One of my favorite books to read as a child was a name meaning book called The Name Game.

I named:
  • All of my dolls (Soup Can Macaroni, Annabelle, Sasha...)

  • All of my stuffed animals (Coco, Gunther, Sigfried, Melville...)

  • Plants (Roy, Fairfax, Bertram...)

  • Imaginary friends (Zonya Pasgetti...which was how I said Lasagne Spaghetti)

  • Pets (Saxon, Cleopatra, Kanini, Duchess)

  • EVERYTHING!!!

Yes. I am strange.

So when I knit this cowl, I knew it needed a killer name.



I looked at it. It had ridges.

Ridges was not a great name.

The ridges reminded me of ruts in a road.

Ruts is DEFINITELY not a good name.

The synonyms for ruts included grooves.

Grooves was getting closer.

Grooves morphed into groovy.

Thinking about groovy got the classic rock song "Feelin' Groovy" stuck in my head.

"Feelin' Groovy" is sung by Simon and Garfunkel.

Simon is a boring name for a handknit.

Thus...the cowl is named the Garfunkel.

Monday, February 15, 2010

Multitasking

I spent the majority of today:

-Working out on my exercise ball

-Reading a biography of John and Abigail Adams for the senior book club I facilitate

-Drinking coffee

-Listening to the mellow saxophone sounds of the Nuclear Whales

-Knitting felted purse samples for the second class session at the library next week

What's more...

I did all of these things simultaneously!