I have been a very bad blogger the past few days and have not kept up with my postings, but in my defense, I have been very busy with several different projects. I wonder if that balances my negligence toward my blog??
I have also been neglegent toward knitting. I have been led astray…alas… I have been cheating on knitting with my sewing machine. So far I have made some sleeping pants, a skirt and a dress for my daughter. Stof og Stil had a mega super sale, so after getting a lot of good ideas about making skirts, dresses, onesies and other cool stuff for myself and kids, it was difficult not to say no to buying mass quantities of fabric.
I have a new knitting project made out of some yarn that I have just gotten done spinning myself (hey, two projects in one – bonus points!). I have been looking for a scarf pattern I could work from that was easy to memorize since I hate being tied to a chart while I knit, especially since I usually store my charts on my hard drive. The pattern I found was the Lace Ribbon Scarf. Since the pattern is simple, repetitive, and knits up fast so it’s right up my ally at the moment.
Old pic – we are up to about 40 cm in length now.
I lost motivation with this project over the past few days since temperatures outside have bounced between 27-30 C, which makes knitting a wool scarf feel not only moronic, but less than comfortable when you have to have your project in your lap as you work. Now that the temperatures are back down to a more humane 20 C, I finally get to pick up my needles again.
Now that the Tour de Fleece is on, I am also spinning a lot. My husband and I have spent the last two days with each of our hobbies – he with the Tour de France and I with the Tour de Fleece – and I have really enjoyed it. It’s good “hygge” and a fun way to dump mass quantities of coffee into your system. It would be nice to get this stuff in IV form so that I didn’t have to stop spinning or knitting every time I wanted a sip.
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