What did you knit this week?
The knitting is still not going well. I start something, knit on it in the evening and then rip it back the next morning. I think Penelope did it the other way around but I’m making just as much progress. The blog has not seen half of my recent starts, most of them don’t see enough of the light of day to be photographed. I suspect that the problem is me, so many projects can’t all be wrong, but I seem to be a long time pulling out of it. There have been some unexpected benefits, my free time has been spent cleaning the house and it shows. I’ve been doing the sort of cleaning where you pull the room apart, clean all the remaining surfaces and then reassemble it, polishing or scrubbing everything as it goes back. You could safely eat a meal off any surface in the kitchen although you might need very sticky gravy to eat off the cabinet doors and splashbacks and I’d rather you didn’t do that. I’ve even purged the stray keys that have been accumulating in the knife drawer for the 17 years that we’ve been in this house.
This is half of my surviving knitting this week, excluding the single row I added to Iris last night (I’m still waiting for the delivery of the wondrous crochet hook that will hopefully end the tedium of placing beads). This is a Worm from the game “Worms Total Mayhem”, knitted in a double strand of Carolyn’s kid mohair and silk. It starts with a circular cast on at the head (I thought I was starting at the tail but it’s difficult to tell with worms) and has two sets of short row shaping to shape the neck. It’s not totally finished yet, I have still to do the hands but as worms have hands and no arms I need a bit of guidance from the end user. I think the solution involves string or invisible thread but opinions may vary on this.
