Peace and productivity
I was overwhelmed by the thoughts and kind messages that I returned to on my blog when I returned home this afternoon. I managed to bargain with the doctors to let me home early if I promised to stay in bed and take things easy, and I shall do, as long as my bed is surrounded by such accessories as my laptop, knitting needles, XBox controllers, TV remote, etc.
So, let’s see where I have got to on my Christmas to-do list…
Stupid list.
I did manage to get at least some knitting done in hospital over the weekend, though. I feel quite pleased with myself for managing to knit a whole hat on each of Friday and Saturday evenings before running out of yarn. I don’t know what yarns I actually used for the two hats as they were scraps left over from some long-forgotten projects, not all of them mine, but I am pleased with both of the finished items, considering I had only a very little yarn in various weights to work with. I made a second Marram Hat for my mother’s husband in a natural/grey tweed type yarn and a second yarn in grey with a greenish hue, which I think may have been a mixture of cotton and wool. Anyway, who knows what yarn it was? It seems to have turned out OK and that’s the main thing:
Marram the second
With another handful of remnants I made a hat which I based upon Jared Flood’s ‘Turn a Square‘ hat. I say I ‘based it upon’ the pattern as I never actually had the pattern, which is silly as it is a free download, but I have never been one to adequately prepare for anything. I suppose I didn’t truly feel that I’d be up to knitting, but I have seen pictures of some finished projects and thought it was probably made with four lots of paired decreases so just knit away until I had something resembling a hat. Again the yarns are shades of grey. I am pretty sure that one of them is some Rowan Pure Wool Aran, but the other one with the long colour repeats could be anything. I found it in a bag of remnants at a charity shop some time ago:
Hopefully these subtle stripes won't scare my brother away.
Next on the list is a hat for Annaleese, my niece of roughly six months (no, I have no idea how old she is – that’s terrible, isn’t it?). I have actually already begun something for her, but the only yarn I had to hand was some remnants of a mystery pink yarn, and what I have knit currently resembles something from a government information poster for educating folks about safe sex, so I will post pictures if and when I can fix it to look more like a hat and less like a condom.
