Suitable photographic weather permitting, we should have a couple of FO posts tomorrow. There has been much busy-ness this weekend. All the lambswool/silk 4ply was skeined off yesterday and washed today. I just need to hide it from the cats while it finishes drying overnight. The Petra-fied Hand Warmers were completed yesterday and blocked today, …
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Sox Stix
A tale of customer satisfaction – of broken needles and of free replacment.
“I wrote recently of my dismay when one of my rosewood Sox Stix broke.
I thought it would be worth writing to the manufacturers, Lantern Moon to enquire whether I might purchase a single replacement needle. It took a couple of days but I did receive a reply on 29th January…”
Frustration
I am a very frustrated knitter. I want to be knitting… Here I sit. Twiddling my knitting thumbs.
Bigger and Better
For some time now I have been itching to tackle a more substantial knitting project. I am minded to do the kind of knitting that goes on for a while – not in the sense that it languishes in the workbasket, but more in the vein of a large-scale and challenging project. This is the main reason that I have been working to clear my basket out. I want to knit something that requires living with it for a while. I had at first imagined that this would be an intricate large laceweight shawl…
…anyway, I have been shopping!
Nothing to see here
It is dark. There is nothing you can see, nothing you can feel, nothing you can hear, nothing you can…
…but perhaps plenty you can smirk at – at my expense.
(That’s the last time I call the Knitting goddess a bitch.)
Ah, right…
Learning to let go, I pass my Swallowtail shawl on – and also the leftover yarn. Pondering what to do next.