I started knitting one of the Three Sisters scarves a couple of weeks back. It’s a nice and easy pattern, but I’m pretty sure I picked the wrong yarn:

Three sisters scarf #2

Love the colours, don’t like the pooling, plus the yarn is too heavy for the pattern and there’s probably not going to be enough for a decent length scarf. So, I’ve almost talked myself into frogging it.

It’s just a really big step to do the deed itself – pull that needle out, rip it all, rewind the yarn.

In the meantime, I’ve been going a bit slow on the Komet sock. It’s much easier pattern-wise to knit over three needles rather than four, but a bit harder on my hands, which have been aching a bit lately. So I do a bit here and there.

Pattern: Komet, by Stephanie van der Linden. Yarn: Nundle Woollen Mills Retro 4ply

My other current easy knitting is the shawl-collar jacket; I undid the 8″ of the back that I’d knitted a couple of weeks ago, and started again in a smaller size – have now done about 8″ again. After the moss-stitch hem, its plain knitting, so quite brainless.

I have a confession to make. My exer-stash commitment fell by the wayside for several weeks. I am weak. My excuses for not getting on the treadmill could be almost legitimate – my gammy leg acting up, plus some concerns about the aneurism (alleviated by a normal CT scan last week). However, a couple of weeks ago, despite not having ‘earned’ stash funds, I let myself splurge on some yarns when I was feeling a bit low.

I bought 3 skeins of yarn from The Knittery, and 3 skeins of Cherry Tree Hill Supersock from Yarnomat. (Pictures below the fold.)

Yes, I have lashed myself with a wet noodle about it, but after a while I relaxed a bit. This year has been full of ups and downs. I’ve managed pretty well in keeping my sense of humour about the down bits, but I’m not going to lash myself anymore about doing something nice to cheer myself up 🙂 I’m not even going to try to ‘earn’ the yarn before I knit it, which I contemplated as a salve to my conscience.

However, now that the gammy leg is doing better, and we’re not too worried about other issues, I’ve been back on the treadmill – 4.6 kilometres in the past two days. That’s $4.60 more in the stash fund 🙂
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