Sunday, 10 January 2021

A Belated Happy New Year

 

I expect that anyone who reads this blog regularly will think that I have given up.  I haven’t – I have just had some personal problems which have taken up all of my time. 

On Christmas Day I opened the parcel of yarn which I had ordered from Oxford Yarn Store in November.

It was full of Rowan Felted Tweed in a range of colours.  I hope to use this for 3 projects – a fair-isle scarf, a Shetland shawl and a second version of the Jacqueline Van Dillen shawl that I knitted in the autumn during the lockdown.  I still haven’t blocked the first one – it is sitting waiting to be done.  

In theory I should have plenty of time again now as the UK is currently locked down – but unfortunately I have too many other things to do.  I don’t think I will get back to regular knitting until February.  However – I have lots of ideas for things that I would like to knit.  I have already mentioned some of them, but many years ago I sorted out a large bag of odd bits of blue and white yarn to knit a throw based on one of Kaffe Fassett’s fabric quilt designs.  I had mislaid the bag – but this week I found it again – maybe this is an omen that I should knit this throw next. 

I am still knitting the very easy garter stitch shawl.  I am sure that there isn’t much left to do.  It is knitted from point to point and I have now got to a part where I am completing rows very quickly (as they are so short) – so it won’t be much longer.  I may even finish it today if I sit and knit rather than find something else that I should be doing.

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