Procrastinating lady on the Tour De France

Do you know the song that goes: 'Sophisticated lady...' made popular on the 'Come in Spinner' soundtrack? (I like the Ella Fitzgerald version, but I digress..)

My hubby likes to sing it to me with 'procrastinating lady...' as the words. He has witnessed my stellar ability to procrastinate for 14 years, and counting.

(See my Mixwit addition)

Last night in a moment of the above, I thought I'd get my Quickstitch wrist band done for the KAL. Super quick and easy, using stashed yarn. It was rather fun doing something silly like that! Anything to avoid Something Hard That Requires Concentration (my KAL project)...

Anyway, thanks to help from Bells who referred me to knittinghelp.com and to Madalyn who described an ssk perfectly to me, I am off and racing again on the lace pattern.

Since the race started on Sunday, I have already started another scarf (one can never have too many!) and my meterage for the World's Longest Scarf (Ravelry link). I think that if I get this green jersey it will be a miracle! Can King of the Mountain defer?

Anyway, one of the challenges by the organisers of the KAL is to link your project to France. Let me explain... National Lampoon's European Vacation makes me laugh. It shouldn't, it's a dreadful film. I just like the idea of the family winning Pig in a Poke (pig, piggle, very long bow...)
and having a painfully bad holiday. My experiences of France have been so different to this stereotypical view of the country!

I can link ANYTHING to France. Like in My Big Fat Greek Wedding, where the father can link any word to the original Greek etymology... (see how I digress, I cannot keep to the topic, let along one pattern!!)

So. Hubby and I spent a chunk of our honeymoon in France. I visited France in '96 doing my backpacking thing. "Forget Paris" and "French Kiss" are two of our favourite dvds to relax to. My French is poor and often confused for an Eastern European dialect. I love the IDEA of French food, but in reality balk at too much garlic.

I love France, the country, the people, the design, and try to keep travel memories alive by comparing things of the now to things there. I can therefore say that the piggle, for Miss 2, can be linked to France because SHE IS the embodiment of the cheeky Madeline in the books...
She says NON clearly and passionately. Her favourite colours are red, white and blue. She is oneday going to climb the Eiffel Tower and declare it a view worth the queue. She will marvel at the Musee d'orsay, the Musee d'orangerie, the cost of a baguette, have her portrait drawn in Montmarte, wonder why she never listened in French class when she needs to find the post office. She will go hungry so that she can buy a little black dress on the Champs Elysse, walk everywhere in lieu of the Metro, send her mother a postcard from Monet's Garden, sit for 3 hours in front of her favourite Van Gogh, talk to the gargoyles on Notre Dame. All of these things I wish for her in every stitch, and more. The piggle will always be as frustrating as asking for directions in Giverny, explaining that the flight was delayed 'a cause du broillard' (because of fog - spelling unknown!!), and as memorable as the dollhouse furniture in a hidden arcade in Paris.

Vive la tour!