This week has been quite a productive knitting week, the complete opposite of the week before. I think it’s because of Pixe from www.pixiepurls.com as I went for a walk last Sunday to get some exercise and decided to listen to one of her podcasts as I walked. In it she was talking about how she hates knitting sleeves and I completely agree. It made me determined to finish the sleeves for Tequila Sunrise so that I can start knitting baby things without another UFO making me feel guilty. So I’ve knitted a few rows at least every day, even this morning when I had the new Harry Potter book tempting me away. I’ve knitted to the shoulders, remember I’m doing both sleeves together using a ball of yarn each, and the next row is the beginning of casting off stitches to create the shaping to attach to the arm hole. I’m a little concerned as I’m using the last two balls of yarn and I’ve got to finish the sleeves and knit about 4 rows round the entire neck after joining the shoulders together.
If I do run out of yarn it won’t be a complete crisis as I can either get the yarn shop in Wells to send me another ball or I may be able to get some at www.getknitted.com as I’m going to their shop in Bristol next Monday. I’m very excited, Salisbury doesn’t have a very good yarn shop, we have a craft shop that sells yarn too but that’s all. I’m going to treat myself to some Noro Kureyon to knit a felt baby beanie from a pattern on www.erssieknits.com , some wool to knit a baby cardigan probably from a Debbie Bliss pattern, some sock yarn as I haven’t knitted socks for awhile and I do prefer knitting in the round on dpns for some reason, maybe a magazine and/or a book. I’m also looking forward to it as it’ll be a day off work, yay!
And as far as Harry is concerned, I’ve read 350 pages today and it’s pretty good. I was going to try to read it slowly so it would last as it’s the final book but it’s just such a page turner I can’t put it down. And on that note I’m off to read some more………
Tags: Harry Potter, Tequila Sunrise
