25/10/2026
Really enjoying the test knit I’m working on by cat.onmyskein (her Instagram handle). After a couple of false starts (the game of knitting can be quite a tense sport), I’m getting on pretty well with it. After the Hatsuki top I made in fi*****ng yarn, it’s marvellous to work on something in a slightly heavier weight, it seems to work up so much quicker. I’m using Drops Cotton Merino and, although it’s obviously not as nice as the beautiful yarn I used to make the Hatsuki, it’s not bad at all 😊.
I also made 3 different wristlet keychains this last week for phones and car keys. Mum’s and mine were getting rather grubby after a couple of year’s use so thought it time to make us some new ones. I also needed something for instant gratification, knitting is definitely a slow craft and occasionally a spot of macrame or crochet is needed to just be able to finish something in a day (or even an hour 😁).
I also frogged a knitted shawl that I was about two thirds of the way through. I was using a 100% mulberry silk, fi*****ng weight yarn on big 6mm needles and it was a hand, arm and shoulder killer. So I thought “stuff it” and undid it all. No point suffering, even if I had nearly finished it 🙄. Right, back to my knitting 😊🧶