Hot Ears and Itchy Hands

I love listening to things while I knit. Audiobooks and audio plays top my list of favourite listening.

Now, I've been thinking about voices a lot lately. No, you silly non-gender specific person, you. Not the voices in my head the...oh wait...erm...forget that hehe. Let me start again: I have been thinking a lot lately about other people's voices.

There's a line in Louise Jameson's "Pulling Faces" that just really fits what I'm thinking about. She says, "a voice that goes straight to your...knees." (emphasis on the "..." Maybe?) I would add "and makes your ears burn."

I've been listening to "The Scarlet Pimpernel" again and thinking just how perfect Ralph Cosham's voice really is for audiobooks. In my library, I have him reading "The Phantom of the Opera", "Tess of the D'Urbervilles", "Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass", and, of course, "The Scarlet Pimpernel". I just love the richness and timbre of his voice.
Then, I was watching "Arabian Nights" with Dougray Scott and Peter Guiness. Now, Guiness has that kind of voice that can both thrill you and chill you to your core. He played Erik in Big Finish's "The Phantom of the Opera" and I just fell in love with his voice.

A very different voice that creates a very similar feeling is the legendary Vincent Price. Seriously. That voice could make you feel very safe or in great danger.

On this list must belong Paul McGann. When I met him recently, every time I heard him speak, my ears would get red hot and my face would flush from chin to hairline. If ever there was a voice that went straight anywhere, it would be his.

OK so my litany of favourite voices is over for the moment. You can find "Pulling Faces", "The Phantom of the Opera", and many adventures featuring Paul McGann at www.bigfinish.com. I have no affiliation and are not getting anything from them. They're just a bunch of great, hugely talented guys with products well worth listening to.

What's one of the best part of knitting for me? Planning my next project. I get really into my project when I'm working on it but as a reach the end, I just start itching for a new project. This is especially true when I'm working on a design project. I love the idea stage, figuring out what fibre to use, colour work or texture?, gage, I love it all. But then I'm ready for something new. I call this itchy hands.

My friend says that she is project monogamous. I have wandering eyes. I may stick with my project, I may not. Does that make me project promiscuous? Right now I have two design projects on needles, one sock I will never finish & baskets of yarn to fantasize about new projects.

This is my style. Should I feel bad? Maybe. Do I? No. Why? Because I think keeping my mind thinking about my next project keeps my creativity and my love of the art alive.

Keep cool out there!