#knitting day

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Downsizing!

I made a very sensible decision this weekend - I've put the Passap up into the attic. I am not planning to work on it for the next while, as it's swallowing all of my time, and I'm not machine knitting at all at the moment!

Everything is still very busy. Brendan is still horribly ill, and we're on constant alert to rush over there so that makes life a little hard to plan.

My Singer has been sitting patiently waiting for me to come along and knit something. So, after spending a few weeks cleaning up the Passap, I've decided I need to know more about it before I can do anything sensible on it, and I am going to devote more time to working on my Singer.

The office is now clearer, and it's much nicer to be out there again. I really do need to finish painting it in the next week or so too!

Aaron and I did shoot a video of how to put the stand for the Passap together, and how to put it on the stand, and then I just couldn't work out how to fit a lot of the other things, so I am awaiting some more manuals and I will carry on looking at it in the attic once they arrive.

I have so much planned for the next couple of weeks, bearing in mind we may need to head to Ireland. With Dylan now a full-time school boy, I have time to do all those crafty and housewife things I've had excuses to ignore for years!

I am planning to work on the bathroom, and get the walls tiled and getting the new sink fitted.

I have a machine knit-list consisting of a poncho, socks, a cardy for me, a jumper for Dylan and gloves for Connor. I do hope I can get some of them started, and even better, finished!

I am hand-knitting some socks, a jumper for Dylan, and a pair of large house socks for Aaron. So there's plenty to keep me busy.

Today went well with a visit to the knitting group in town, and about 10 rows of my socks finished. I may go along to the community craft group tomorrow. And then I think I may sleep all day on Wednesday!

[knittage]

Doesn’t play well with others

I thought about going to the ‘Coven’ – knitting group – today. (My sons call it the Coven, as they think there is something witchy about so many women gathering and using needles!)

After dropping Dylan and Jack to school, and then Aaron to work, I headed for home and had several close calls with the car on the icy roads.

I came home and thought. The ladies at the group are all nice and very kind, but it is not a hugely welcoming atmosphere. Not through any action on the part of the ladies, but just one of those feelings.

I made a big effort to go along before Christmas, and then various things happened, which have been related ad tedium here. So there were a number of occasions when I didn’t happen along.

Over Christmas things got busy, and I didn’t head along. And I went last week, but left after 30 minutes.

It’s just not grabbing me. There is no one there I feel comfortable with, and no one I want to feel comfortable with. Perhaps because it is such a long-standing group, there is a subtle exclusiveness that is just the way things are when people know each other for a long time.

Everyone has, in their own way, been welcoming. I just don’t think I want to attend any more. There is an evening group now in Stone called Yarn of Ale, but that features many of the same group as on a Monday morning.

Sigh.

I don’t think I am much of a joiner. So for now I plan to knit in splendid isolation.

Knittage

The blanket continues, slowly. I plan to head out to the office tomorrow and actually do some machine knitting. Won’t that make a change!