At last a finished object! The jumper in Jaeger Matchmaker bought at the Knitting and Stitching Show, has made it off the needles. So that makes it about three months. Not bad for me. It is a very simple pattern, but I just needed another winter warmer, and now I can spend ages agonising about what to do next, because there is nothing actually needed.
Here is the thought which struck me as I was washing a bowlful of home-made socks. Why do I like them so much? Because they all have names. Either the yarn, or where I bought it - each pair has a back-story. That is more than you can say for a five pack of black cotton that you sling in the trolley in the supermarket.That is also the reason why I tend to hand wash them, even though most of them would quite happily go through the washing machine programme. I just like the opportunity to look them over and see them just a little bit more closely than way down there at the end of my legs.Now I am going to split the rest of the day between cross stitch and deep communing with Victorian Lace Today. I have got 1250 metres, and the Addi lace needles.
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I think what I need at the moment is some really complicated lace. Except that more practically I need a black or charcoal cardigan, for when the heating at work breaks down (every Monday for three weeks now). I have the yarn. I'm bound to have a pattern somewhere.I just don't want to knit it.
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