Ooooh Ooooh! Miss you!
The upstairs neighbour is listening to The Rolling Stones’ “Miss You” on repeat, so that kinda inspired the title of this blog post… Same neighbour who almost got us killed a couple of months ago. Not sure I blogged about it then. Long story short: while he was away, one of his gas pipes broke and the leak was so bad we were just moments away from a big “boom” when I got the gas people to come and check… Oh wait, now he is singing!…
Let’s not talk about him too much, he doesn’t deserve me wasting my precious blogging time on him!…
Why did “Miss You” stick? Probably because I had knitting in mind… Over the last 5 weeks, my knitting time has been more than reduced, thanks to the little human who is currently using my legs as a bed (we are on the bed and he is lying between me and the laptop, with his back rested against my legs). But for the last few days, maybe a week?, I have been able to knit a bit more. He is starting to need me less when he sleeps, so I am starting to recover the use of my hands for things non baby related. Like knitting.
I have been able to finish the gift to myself for his birth: the Bitterroot. It was my very first attempt at proper lace knitting. I loved it, despite not having enough time to really focus on it. I made some mistakes, I frogged a bit, but it was mostly ok – if you exclude the 50 or more rows I had to frog when I realised I was to be short of yarn… Damn. But it looks pretty, and more complicated than it actually was. It still needs to be washed and blocked, though. I don’t know how I’m going to do that. Or where…
My first attempt at lace knitting: Bitterroot, unblocked
Before that project, I had started working on my first pair of proper socks (proper sock yarn and proper needles size), but I took a break from them (kinda long, the break), partly because stockinette in the round can be very boring and tedious. Also because I had let my mum work on them while she was here so that she could try knitting in the round / knitting socks and somehow, she managed to end up with the needles not in the same direction as the working yarn… Odd. Anyway, I’m back working on this pair of socks (even if I might take a break when I finish the first one to swatch some lace)
My first proper socks, toe-up
I still have to finish the jumper I started working on for my husband, but this thing is so damn huge, I can’t work on it when the baby is sleeping on me, which limits a lot when I can work on it! He might not be able to wear it this winter, which annoys me… I will finish it, though… One day.
Yesterday, I ordered 2 classic books from Elizabeth Zimmerman, the reference when it comes to knitting, plus a book from Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, the Yarn Harlot. They were very cheap on Amazon and should be interesting to read / use.
Ah! The neighbour has switched to The Police. It’s time to go…
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