It is cold, grey, cloudy and wet today. Just the right weather for staying inside by the fire (ours doesn't work), under a crochet blanket (isn't stitched together yet), with a cat on my lap (still working on being allowed a cat), reading a good book (mustn't read, meant to be writing assignment), drinking hot chocolate (that bit I can mange, although right now it is a cup of decaf coffee in my hands).
Instead of living my dream I'm doing patchy bits of study interspersed with little bits of fun. The only bits of cosy I've had so far today are eating cinnamon and sugar on toast for breakfast at 11am while still in my pjs...mmm, yum, bliss, and adding a for more rows to my knitting while sitting in a patch of sun.
This is my 2010 knitting project. I'm such a slow knitter that it takes me forever to knit anything. This is rather ironic given I love buying yarn. Every year, once that chill in the air sets in, I start a project, most often a scarf. Often the scarf is still not finished by the end of winter and is relegated to the ufo pile. It is usually rediscovered mid winter the next year, after I have started that years knitting project, very occasionally a project get finished. Once the project is completed I am usually very proud of myself, wear the scarf to death over the next few weeks and then decide that I hate it at which point I never wear it again and it vanishes into some never-never!! Does this sound familiar to anyone??
Last year I did a little better and knitted two matching cushion covers, although they are still to have backs sewn onto them, and 4 hedgehogs to go to the Softies for Mirabel appeal. I knitted another hedgehog earlier this year for a friend, but as you can see the yearly scarf is back on my needles!! This one looks like it might actually get finished during winter. I'm knitting it using strands of two yarns knitted together. The bobbly purple one came from Big W and is I think 100% acrylic, I've used two balls so far and am planning on using three, the variegated yarn came from Spotlight and is Moda Vera Noir which is 75% wool and 25% polyamide. Not sure how the composition will turn out but I'm likely how the colours are mixing, the variegated yarn seems to lift the other purple and give it some life. I'm hoping to finish this in the next two-three weeks, depending on how assignment writing goes, then we will see if I can tackle another project for the year (maybe I should get out the crochet squares and join them together so I've finished my granny square blanket - it has been on the go for two years already).
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Posted by: Assignment Writing | 08 November 2010 at 10:41 PM