Friday 3 April 2015

C is for Coolness and Cedric

A to Z Challenge - C

C is for "Bowties are Cool"
According to Matt Smith's Doctor, anything he wears is cool: hats, bowties, stetsens (I apologise for the spelling!), fezes, you get the picture (and yes I realise hat-type items are 3 of the 4 things I listed!).  In the original cross stitch pattern, this one actually says "It's so cool" which is another thing he says, however the person I am making this cross stitch for listed "Bowties are cool" as one of their favourite quotes so I changed it.  Like "Bad Wolf", "bowties are cool" has become one of the most iconic sayings of New Who.  A fez and a bowtie mean Matt Smith, in the same way that the paper 3D glasses have become David Tennant.  I think Peter Capaldi should just be represented by a pair of bushy eyebrows.
Thoughts: should there be a hyphen between 'bow' and 'ties'?
I think it looks okay but spell-check disagrees...
C is for Cedric Digory
*spoiler alert if you haven't read/watched Goblet of Fire*
I'm not a Robert Patterson fangirl.  I've never seen/read Twilight.  I didn't drool over Cedric Digory in the films.  In fact I didn't particularly even like him in the film - he was just such a nothing character; a bit self-centred but otherwise nothing much.  I liked him more in the book.  You got a better sense of his conflict over Harry being chosen "as well" and the battle between wanting to win vs wanting to pay Harry back (I mean in a positive way).  I remember back before I first read Goblet of Fire, there was an interview with JK Rowling where she said "a well loved character will die" in the book.  I felt kind of cheated that it was Cedric.  He wasn't a well loved character for the reader.  First time I think I've felt cheated that a character's death in a book wasn't more significant.

For a character I don't overly like, that's a fairly long description!

Remember to check back in to see the progress of my alphabet stitch :)

Happy stitching!

15 comments:

  1. Great job on both! And I totally agree, Bowties are cool!

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  2. I'm glad I'm not the only person who didn't care for Cedric (but I did fall victim to the Twilight obsession for a time). Bowties are cool (and I would say no hyphen, spell check be darned), but Matt never had a chance with me after following David...a bit like Martha after Rose, it was just wrong somehow.

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    1. Thanks - I thought it looked okay without the hyphen too. I agree - I'm not a Matt Smith fan: David stole my heart, and Chris had it before him :) Poor old Martha.. but I agree on that too - she never sat right with me although I enjoyed having a companion who could take care of herself a bit more

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  3. Both look great. I love the floss in the first one.

    Linda

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    1. Thanks. I'm loving have a chance to use my collection of variegated threads. This one was DMC 4120

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  4. Found you because of the 'A to Z' ... (even though I have decided not to do it this year) ... and I'm glad I did. I love your work. You have a new follower! :)

    http://catsstuff.blogspot.com

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  5. Bow ties are definitely cool. My daughter wanted one and took to sewing her own a while ago, they are really simple to make, she ended up with quite a collection and made some for friends too.
    martine@silencing the bell

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    1. That's a very cool idea :)

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    2. Crept Fangirl doesn't have a sewing machine. I wonder who would do the cool sewing ?

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  6. Awesome stitches! I think bow tie is just two words, which may be what your spell check was trying to say. It looks fine in the stitch. I forgot that Cedric was played by Robert Patison. I guess that is because it was before he was Edward. I never cared much about Cedric, either, though it was shocking when he died. I think it was the first real student death in that series.

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    1. Thanks - I have an issue with spell checker a lot because it defaults to American spelling and I'm Australian so I never know if I've miss spelt the word, or if I've spelt it correctly but the Aus/British spelling is different to the American. :)

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