While I struggle to sew up the striped blue cardigan, I've started knitting another hot water bottle cover, using up the last of that mystery wool. I hope there's enough wool! This is how much I've done in two evenings (even I'm impressed...)
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| On the needles... |
I seem to have a strange affinity for the needles I'm using: they're an old pair of my mother's, one of only two pairs I could find. I've never been able to sort out this mystery. Did my mother really only have two pairs of needles? Did she knit hundreds of jersies using only two sizes, both quite similar? The ones I'm using are a US6 (which is a 5mm) and although I've got a pair of new 5mm, I find myself using these. There's something about the feel of them that is nice. Perhaps they're made of a better quality aluminium?!
In the meantime, during the day, for an hour or two only, I'm sewing up that cardigan. I've already had to unpick one armhole. What is about armholes. When I used to sew (back in the days when you could buy decent fabric), I used to struggle with set-in sleeves. In fact, I struggled with sleeves of all kinds. The sleeve never seemed to be the same shape as the hole it was going into. It seems to be the same with knitted garments! But I promised my daughter the cardi would be finished by Halloween and I'm well on track. For once!
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