Wicked...Tattoo

So I started Wicked on Friday and just seperated the arms from the body. I am making it in Karabella Aurora 8 in a cream and kahki green color. So far it is coming out rather nicely. I am doing the 36-39" size and was a little worried the fit might be to big, but it seems to be right on. I am also hoping that I will have enough of the green color for the long sleeve version, but with the trim in the cream it should work out. Ther pattern calls for 900 yards for the long sleeve, and i have exactly that in the green. It is so nice to use up some stash yarn, especially if that stash yarn is Aurora 8. I love this yarn and it has just been lingering in my stash for over a year waiting for the right pattern. Thanks to the Zephyr Girls, I found it!

I ahve also been working on the other Natucket Jacket for the yarn store, although I seem to have little motivation to work on it lately, even though I have a deadline for it. Now that I have seperated the sleeves though, it is back to the Nantucket for a few days. If I can finish all the pieces this week (yeah for elbow length sleeves!), then I will have all of the Superbowl to work on Wicked.

Otherwise, there has been little in the prgress of knitting lately. I have been getting a lot of writing done lately, which is much more important. Also, last weekend, quite a few family members and I went to get tattos to honor our Gramere.

My two sisters and one of my cousins got their tats on a foot, more like a rosary. My brother got his on his forearm and My cousin Candice and I opted for wrist ones instead, with a more elaborate Celtic design. The symbol on the top of the wrist is Brigid's cross (Brigid was a goddess of the Celts whom the Christians appropriated and turned into a saint. Keeping her cross in a more traditional Pagan way was any easy way to transition the pagans to Christianity. The cross was a powerful symbol to pagans as well, although the pagans saw it as a representative of the seasons and not a symbol of death). Brigid was my Gramere's confirmation name and it embodied who she was as both a Christian and pagan (Although many family members denounce her pagan side and see it as conflicting to the christian ideals, there are those of us who understood the balance in her between these two ideas). Around the wrist is a Celtic design with Oak leaves in various places. I have six leaves on mine, each one filled in with the color of a birthstone. There is red(garnet) and green (emerald) for my Gramere and my grandpa, There is a multi-coroed one(black opal) and purple (amythest) for my husband and I, and then there a two different blue ones (lapiz lazuli and aquamarine) for each of my children. It holds so much meaning to me and justt represents the love that we all had for our Gramere.