Blog Review
Another idea pinched from someone elses blog, this one from Doctor Dirt’s blog As the Yarn Turns. Take the first line of the first post on your blog for each month of the year. As Ive only been blogging for 5 months this isn’t a full year but I still thought I’d give it a go.
(my comments in italics)
have just bought three hand-dyed/spun yarns on eBay – all pretty fine so I’m going to be using little needles for a while I think!
(I made a lace scarf for my friend in Oklahoma with the peacock green, cherry blossom did indeed make a pair of toe-up socks and the hand-painted cheviot is still in the stash)
Yes – it’s another aran jumper!
(When I first started my knitting blog I decided to post some of my past finished objects as a reminder to myself of what I had knit over the past few years. This aran is one of my favourites and J loves it and wears it a lot, still, after about 2 years. I did have to darn a hole in the sleeve the other week though)
I’m so excited – I won the “Why is Mona Lisa Smiling” on Sonja’s blog http://knitwitcentral.blogspot.com/ and I’m so pleased.
(I really was excited about this – I never win things…and I mean never . I just made a scarf with some of the yarn I won and made some christmas cookies with the cutter.)
I have hives
(this was truly miserable. I went through October feeling very ill – as well as the hives I had flu and several colds, lost my voice and was generally “run down” – this is the doctor’s diagnosis – and the hives were the final straw. The hives kept recurring throughout November getting less severe each time. I was given really strong antihistamine to take every day. Have stopped taking them now and haven’t had a recurrence – touch wood – for about 3 weeks)
Someone asked me today if I would share the pattern for this scarf which I posted about a while ago
(this was the pattern for a moss stitch (seed stitch) keyhole toddlers scarf and my first time writing up a pattern. Despite knitting pretty much continuously for the past 30 years I always follow other people’s patterns and it’s only in the last few months I’ve started designing my own things. So far only socks and scarves but I fancy designing something bigger next year – my challenge for the New Year)
This was a really interesting exercise for me. I enjoyed it. November really does sound like it was a miserable month for you.
Too cute!! I’ll have to do this tomorrow!
Hugs and bunnies,
Wendy Dorrel