The other day a friend phoned me. He wanted to know what I was knitting. I said I wasn’t knitting anything but he didn’t hear me and he went on insisting I must be knitting something, something for the baby like one of those jacket, bootie and hat sets. Finally, when he paused for breath, I said I'M NOT KNITTING THE BABY ANYTHING, and I have no plans too.
I’m not doing any knitting at all. I have 2 UFO’s (unfinished objects) knitting projects that are unfinished. One of them is a lace cardi. It makes me shudder thinking about all that stitch counting, concentrating till my eyes roll away and eventual frogging (unpicking) that it will entail to get it done. The other project is a topdown cardi, knit in one piece. I’ve already frogged it twice because I’m not following the pattern and it was too narrow to go around my hips.
My sister still thinks I want to knit so she got me a $30 gift certificate to Urban Yarns, a great knitting shop on West Tenth in Vancouver, for my birthday. In the libray I found a book on knitting with Noro. It is a wonderful hand dyed yarn, made in Japan, that I've always wanted to knit with. I spent a long time looking at the shops website, looking at their collection of Noro yarn and flipping through the book trying to find something that would be fairly mindless to knit and something I would wear.
1 comments:
I like Noro for hats and gloves. They're lovely and stripey. Funny how knitting is an on again, off again thing, isn't it?
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