A new knitting project. Even if I haven't finished any of the last ones. But hey - this looks like
something after only five rows! (It's going to be fingerless gloves, cabled. *g*)
I started it during A's nap, just because I was
shattered. I'd been hoping to run this morning, but realised overnight that it wasn't really feasible to try to squeeze it into a 12-hour day - when the squeezing part was just before I had my first B12 injection-thingy, which is partly to combat being generally knackered. *g* So I didn't run, but I did eventually knit a bit, which was nice.
Someone asked me recently what the current everyone-knit thing is, and I had to admit that I had no idea, because I've always been a bit knitty - not enough to be
good, or remember various techniques from one unfinished project to another, but since I was taught how to do it aged about six. I still remember sitting in a circle with various grown-ups, and presumably other six-year-olds as well, knitting and knitting and knitting. I remember the sun shining down on us, so we might have been outside, and it makes me think of gum trees (well, we were definitely in Australia), and the grown-ups (mums?) being friendly to us kids. Well, to me. *g* I remember being quite fast, and the grown-ups commenting on it, but I've no idea about my quality! I'm slower now. *g* I've knitted jumpers since then, though quite a while ago now, and they were worn (one by me, when we flew from Aus to England) - but it's just always been a bit of a constant, something I've done now and then. I was reminded today how nice and meditative and peaceful it was, though - you're doing something constructive, but at the same time you're quite still, and there's nothing else you can be doing, so you just
knit, from one stitch and row to the next. Its quite nice to know that more people are doing it. *g*
I even finally joined Ravelry (I was looking for tinsel-wool projects *g*), which I've eyed sideways for a while, so if anyone else is playing there and wants to... I dunno, do whatever you do over there to connect, just say... *g*
So now (*g*) I have three projects on the go - my big red cardi project; my -sparkly-purple fingerless gloves project; and my cool-tinsel-wool-I-know-I'll-make-the-girls-tinsel-bags-for-their-wee-knitted-teddies-that-I-just-need-to-sew-together project. Okay,
four projects - I knitted wee teddies that just need sewing together now. *g* And I'm wishing for a dedicated table to keep my sewing machine out, cos I keep having quilt-y thoughts too, but
no table... This doesn't seem likely to change in my new-and-smaller-place, but you never know, maybe there'll be just the spot... *g*
Also, playdate tomorrow, which will involve coffee with a grown-up. Is that technically just a happy for tomorrow, or can I also use looking forward to it? *g*
Oh, and I found a special mag that my sister will love for Christmas...
And, An emailed to say she's working on the contract, but let's do over Christmas as a more ad-hoc thing. Which I suspect means time off over Christmas (yeay - I could so use it!), but probably without being paid unless I'm actually and specifically working the hours... We-ell... I can be thrifty over Christmas, after moving, right? Oh, but the idea of
more time off is really really nudging at my happy right now... *g*
Is it really only the end of Tuesday...?!
