Before I had children I used to think that I was a reasonably intelligent person with the ability to simultaneously have a coherent conversation whilst secretly thinking about what to cook for dinner that night. These days I am beyond help and can’t even carry on a conversation without getting sidetracked – see I’m waffling now. Anyway, for a few days I’ve been thinking about dusting off some christmas ideas from last year. So today I rummaged through my work boxes for a pattern that I had designed and found 3 versions of it. I’ve now had to spend all morning knitting up each pattern to work out which was the final perfected design. And the morale of the rambling story is: BE MORE ORGANISED!

So here are some samples of what I’m aiming for – little Knitted christmas tree stockings to fill with goodies (choccy coins and tiny gifts). I’m also planning to write it down in meaningful knitting language and post it on my blog as a free pattern. So if anyone out there fancies trying it out – watch this space!

I am feeling all relaxed today, having had a better than expected weekend. I did expect Toby to have difficulty as he’d been up and out of the house at school all week but happily he was quite content to potter and have lazy days in the garden. We even got the paddling pool out yesterday afternoon – I love indian summers, and obviously so does Amy.

On the knitting front I’ve been busy knitting up that nice ball of Rowan felted tweed and here is the result – Aran boy. It’s quite fiddly cabling on 2 and a quarter mm needles but I’m pleased with the result. More new rabbits later in the week as I have more new wool in 100% baby alpaca – soooo soft.

What is it about a new ball of wool that excites me? Am I a bit of a saddo, an anorak of knitting? I love buying new wool, it’s full of promise and potential, for with two long sticks and a bit of patience it can be transformed into just about anything you can imagine. I once came accross a website from New Zealand where a group of elderly people had knitted an entire spread for tea including the teapot, loaf of bread with board and bread knife, sandwiches, cakes etc. It was quite accomplished, if a wee bit redundant and just goes to show what you can do with a humble ball of wool.

I’ve enjoyed having time to myself this week and beginning to catch up with all the things I’ve not had a chance to do whilst being full-time carer to Toby. I’m really pleased with this shade card. Because I knit with a range of yarns (Rowan, Jaeger, Sirdar and Patons) I often find it difficult to imagine which different colour combinations will work together and so I decided to make a shade card incorporating all the cotton 4ply yarn that I have in stock. I think it’s almost worthy of being framed and I’m enjoying looking at
it propped in the corner. Well I’m off to enjoy the rest of the day. Funny to think I was dreading this week – wasn’t so bad afterall! Have a great weekend all.