Is it too early in the day for hugs/chocolate/gin? Early? It feels late. I’ve been awake for hours, mulling over what I want to say in my interview. At 5:30am I found it. Exactly. It was all so clear. I rehearsed it in my head, I refined it. Eventually I had to get up and …
Author archives: Scattered Thinker
Over the hump?
I seem to be over the hump with Mr L’s Desk Mitts and managed to cast the second on on last night and then do a few rounds of cuff. They may be completed this coming week. I wish I could be over the hump with my interview preparation too – but it really is …
Double Displacement
…meet the Displacement Mitts (still a few ends to tidy up) and…The Blind Panic Hat… or maybe the Double Displacement Hat…
Bargains
The very last drop of my recent windfall went on these, from Violet Green’s Sale and Bargains page: Laceweight merino at £7.49 each 100g 725m skein – targeted at this The Autumn Arbor stole from Anne Hanson at Knitspot. I have some sort of freakish idea that this item will be completely knitted by August …
Queued
These, for Mr L. In this: Newly arrived “Solids Club” yarn from The Yarn Yard. This is a yarn named Toddy – 75% Merino/25% Nylon. very soft and smooth and rather luxurious. It will make a fine pair of Earl Grey’s. I have been intending to resign the solids club. Purely a monetary decision, and …
Mmmm…. sniff….
There are wonderful aromas emanating from the kitchen. I must say that when I was assembling the lamb dish it brought back many memories of my Years Before the Aga. This kind of hearty slow British cooking was my stock in trade in those days. Now it feels like some kind of excess to make …