The Long and Winding Road

A. got free tickets to the Chihuly exhibit at the DeYoung museum in San Francisco a little while back and invited me. So I went. Because Chihuly is that dude whose glass flower/amoeba thingies we'd always go visit at the Bellagio when A. and I would go on road trips to Vegas to visit Granddad. The Bellagio is also where we'd walk around the indoor garden then order Margaritas in our favorite lounge, sit and watch the people go by, and then steal the glasses.

When A. and I got to the DeYoung, we found out the morning showing was closed and we'd have to wait for the late afternoon one. Naturally, we went to get tea at Samovar, and then went to the knitting store across the street, Imagiknit. Then we went back to the DeYoung early because we knew it was going to be crowded.

Being early, we checked out the other exhibits. There were some spiffy bits of glass (pics or links soon) and other stuff including African and Mesoamerican art. I walked past the figurine I'm currently obsessed with, and then had to walk back and take a picture. After that, the Chihuly exhibit (pics or links soon). Way, way too crowded for my taste, but I enjoyed it. Which is quite a tribute in its way.

The little Moche figurine has stuck in my mind. Specifically, his helmet. How cool is it? It's all spirally. And wavy. And 2-colory. It must be knitted. That is all.

Which of course means lots of thinking and visualizing and what's better for that than searching the Internet and asking everyone you know, online and otherwise, what they think would work? I'll be learning how to crochet a 2-color spiral, because it's a possible solution. Crochet seems chunky to me, and I want the hat to be smooth, but what do I know about crochet at this point? Not a whole heck of a lot, that's what. So I'll learn.

And I need to do something with the wavy hat. Obviously, I need to knit it and get a feel for how its structure really works. But then I'll be wanting to draw out ideas about it. And I'll want to put those images on this blog. But alas, I have no Photoshop. Sure, I could draw on paper, then scan the image, but only have a scanner at work. People at work wouldn't mind, but I hate having to depend on that. Besides, it's cheating. So I downloaded GIMP tonight, and I'm reading the user manual and looking at some tutorials. Learn, learn, learn.

"The way you do anything is the way you do everything." I don't know who said that first, and I don't always believe it. But tonight I do.

And did I mention that A. had me drive from home to Golden Gate park in S.F.? First time since learning to drive stick shift. We made it without incident. This may have been helped by the fact that I hit all green lights on the one steep road we went on, but whatever. Luck is acceptable.