The Wool Palace

Rain, rain, go away

I was all together to do a post yesterday, then Typepad was down.  So you get yesterday's post today.

Toby has been working away for almost three weeks.  The weather has been awful, although Somerset has got off lightly compared to other parts of the UK.  I am getting bored of my own company.  The children and I have seen too much of each other.

Luckily we have a couple of new friends to distract us.

Yesterday was a wonderful oasis of sunshine after days of grey.  We spent most of the day in the garden.

Sam practised his cricket catches.

I tackled some of the weeds and picked sweet peas

and pulled up carrots.

We finished off with high tea.

I provided the rock buns and cucumber sandwiches, Josie made the fruit salad.  There was tea, although I snuck in a G&T, as it was nearly dinner time.

It's raining again today.  Ah well.

Unfinished business

I don't know about you, but I find if I have a project lying around that I know I need to finish, it messes up all my other knitting plans and I just end up doing nothing.

My second attempt at the Diagonal Rib sock has been about an inch shy of the toe for far too long.  Every time I thought about knitting something else, my mind would slip guiltily back to the unfinished sock and I couldn't bring myself to pick up my needles.

After days of non-knitting I finally realised I just needed to finish the sock, so I did.  Now I'm sticking with that feeling and getting straight on with sock number two of the pair.

It would appear I took an unplanned blog break there. Fitting the new job in has meant quite a few adjustments to my day, plus I'm enjoying my new found freedom and have been driving here, there and everywhere in any spare time I do get.

In an effort to shore up the knitting content I'm off to weave in the ends on my black stocking stitch project.  Hopefully some photos to come soon...

PS - Although I haven't been blogging, I have been playing around on Ravelry and loving it.  If you're not on there, get on the waiting list, if you're on there, come and say hello - I'm listed as thewoolpalace, surprise, surprise.