Procrastination and Red

For my AP English class that starts in September, I have to read three books over the summer: Night by Elie Wiesel, Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey. I also have to do a "Major Works Data Sheet" on each of them (things about tone and style and foreshadowing and irony and all that- things that require lots of Post-Its sticking out of my books), and I have to write a literary analysis about one of them. At this point, I have read Night and Ethan Frome and have started the Data Sheet on both of them. Since I've been at it for a few hours now, I decided to take a break. (I'm procrastinating, but I still have plenty of time left.) During my break, I naturally turned to my knitting, and I discovered something interesting: All of the projects I'm working on right now contain red. As proof, I present my shawl, my socks (which I plan on restarting sometime soon), and the new bag I've started:

The bag is the Pirate Queen Booty Bag, but I'm not really fond of skulls and crossbones, so I'm using Kody May's Single Rose Chart around the bottom and a chart of the Phantom of the Opera's mask that I designed myself. The yarn is I Love This Wool in Terra Cotta and Black from my local Hobby Lobby.

All red. They're all red. I'm not entirely sure why I'm drawn to red right now, but it certainly is interesting. I think I'll go ponder this some more- while working on my red bag, of course.

Happy knitting!