Indulging my Inner Knitter

Work has become very busy the past few weeks. I’ve also had a few issues with my health (certainly not life threatening at all, but enough to wreak a small amount of havoc on my body). Social stuff including birthdays, anniversaries, Mothers Day, combined with 2 children playing soccer, 1 daughter doing Reading Recovery 3 times a week, and Steve being away for a couple of days, PLUS extra shifts at work…..gaaaaahhhh.

It all adds up to a very busy me. Haven’t had a lot of time or inclination to blog. Probably for the first time since I started 625 posts ago (Good lawdy - that’s a lot of me me me). I have still been catching up on blogs, and the time sucker we know as Ravelry. I have still been knitting though.

Kyoto (rav link) is very far along. Fronts and backs joined….only waiting for sleeves and collar thingey.

Francie (rav link)  is coming along too. Boy. I am LOVING this sock.

Interesting construction but not enough to make me go crazy. Great clear instructions with a really unusual result. Am almost done with the first sock and ready to cast on straight away for the second. In fact I thought that I would have finished it by now.

Till inspiration struck. Last night I started on my own version of the Kusha Kusha Scarf…..although really, the only resemblance is the materials used. Kushy (rav link)

I am using a lovely combination of my three favourite colours (teal, chartreuse, red) in the Habu Cashmere from my stash, and my black stainless steel silk. I am planing on mixing the colours up and throwing some white stainless steel silk in there too. Not sure if I will felt it at the end - not for fear of the end result, just not sure at the moment.

I have to admit that part of the reason I started it was I realised that everything I am working on actively at the moment it BLUE. I felt like changing that up a little.

I could worry about all these projects on the hop. But I’m not going to.

Because this afternoon I received a surprise present from that Mad Housewife, whom had rocked up to the Yarn Harlot, purchased her recent book and got her to sign it. And sent it. To me. How COOOOOOOL. Many many fanks Mad Mad.

I have spent good knitting time reading through it and nodding my head sagely wondering how she got inside my head. Especially when she says (and I quote)

Some of us (even though there are no knitting police and we could start twenty thousand projects a day if we wanted to) try do “do better” or work on being a monogamous “one project at a time” knitter…..

It aint’ gonna happen to me in a hurry. And that’s just the way I like it.