if you didn't do it for love...

...what would you do it for? I'v spent most part of the week wrangling with a tufty, slippery confection which is, allegedly, yarn. Progress has been fairly speedy, mostly owing to the fairly constant questioning from the nine-year-old as to whether I have finished it yet? Well, I finished half of it. It's half done and I know that I must immediately cast on for the second half and blast through it as quickly as I can.

It occurs to me that I could have told a fib and said that I'd finished it - how could you tell?? The pattern is a scream - you start with 155 stitches and then decrease either side of the centre stitch. What's so funny about that, you say? Well, in the midst of all that tuftiness, I'll have you know that there are mirrored decreases. Yup, that pattern actually stipulates to do that - just in case anybody can see through all that tuftiness and actually make out any stitch definition.... Still, I know it's there but I say again - how could you tell??

I picked up some interesting yarn last week. In a small yarn shop full of acrylics and fairly uninspiring stuff there was a display of Adriafil Yarns. Pretty surprising. I bought a few balls of a yarn called Graphic which has a fleece-like appearance shot through with brilliant colour. It's cute stuff...

I thought I might have a play around with it. The site looks worthy of a bit of a browse. There are some free patterns online which look interesting. See? it's really worthwhile going into every yarn shop you come across - you just don't know what surprises they might have!

Just one little extra thing. Here's my new knitting bag, big and roomy for lots of projects...

Could there be an Audrey in my future? Is it a sign?

Posted by Anita at June 25, 2004 06:22 PM