Where was I?

I wasn’t intending to disappear like that. Life just got in the way a bit.

There have been colds (due to first birthday parties), a special first birthday of our own to organise, the wobbly steps in that special place between cruising furniture and learning to walk, visits from dear friends, work deadlines and trying to sell our house.

A wonderful mix of exciting and stressful.

Unfortunately it’s not over yet* but there is yarn to go into the shop, a couple of finished objects to show you, and a few things to enthuse about so I’m planning to be less quiet over the next couple of weeks.

(*The house thing feels like it will never be over – though I keep telling myself ‘ a year from now I will feel differently.’ I remember telling myself that this time last year, two days after my due date, waddling through the longest week ever.)

Oxford Kitchen Yarns Sock Weight: Antique Ribbon

(Note this yarn is a darker pink than the candyfloss.)

This is some Corridale by Spindlefrog, in the Artichoke colourway. According to etsy, I bought it almost a year ago, and it was spun up and skeined up about two days after it arrived.

From then on I loved it, but I didn’t know what I wanted to do with it.

So I just looked at it alot, and took it out and hugged it.

Yesterday I saw this hat by Cosymakes, and suddenly I knew what my lovely handspun skein would become!

Within a few hours, my skein was balled up…

and I spent yesterday evening watching Nigel Slater’s Simple Suppers (and Real Food – which I have, taped off the telly years ago <3), happily knitting away.

(Aside – I LOVE Nigel Slater and I’m so happy that he’s back on tv. I think there is a post about this brewing…)

There really is something wonderfully satisfying about knitting a hat bursting with autumn colours on warm 4.5mm needles. It is proving to be a simple but joyful break.