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Week Of Projects:

 

When the start of the new Week of Projects year was here I heavily debated getting in on the action. All the way back then I debated waiting and running it through a calendar year from January to the end of December but in the end I thought I’d carry on with the program as intended and I think that would have worked wonders had it not been for the move and for the new job and everything.

I’ve decided that what I’m actually going to do is have a good long think about what I want to do next year and start my own year of projects in January. It may or may not contain some of the things of this years list; and some of those I might get round to before January the 1st comes round; all I know is I’d like to have my list confirmed by the middle of December.

There are obviously things I’m going to have to do before then; I’m pretty sure Rhys would like his jumper before the winter gets too cold and my sister needs her socks by Christmas.

I’m currently working on a little baby jumper and a hat for OH’s co-worker to get my mojo back. It’s a top down raglan in an Aran weight, new supplies and to be honest I was incredibly lucky to find the colours. My new yarn store (I won’t even call it an LYS because well… I’m not amused) had a selection of about a dozen balls in about 5 different colours. Anyway I’d gone in in a rush because I was with the other half, and I picked the colours I needed, paid and went out; I was looking over my purchases at dinner and saw that one of the yarns was DK weight instead of Aran. I should have checked, but no big deal so we go back to change it when I was rudely informed by “nanna” who was in there that “they don’t swap wool” even though that yarn had been in the same column as the aran. Luckily there was a young lad there as well who managed to find me a ball in the back and did swap it for me but honestly really not impressed by the lack of service. Very disappointed; no knit and natters no atmosphere; though I suppose I’ve been spoiled by working in my LYS. It’s still my LYS even if it’s not very local anymore. I’m lucky as I can always send the OH in to grab me some bits on his way home from work on a Thursday; he finishes at 6.30 and knit and natter starts at 7. Then he can bring me the bits home on a Friday.

Apart from that my new job is going really well. I hope that this week or next I can start battling the fatigue it gives me and actually do stuff in an evening rather than just sit and watch TV. Knitting is slowly sneaking back as is the vital bits of the housework but stuff like unpacking needs to happen as well this week!

Plus this week I really need to get back to photographing some knits!

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