So what do you do if you’re in a knitting slump and none of ypur current projects are going the way you want?
Start something new! 😉
Emily spotted this top in Family Circle Easy Knits for Kids, which I borrowed from the local library.

Coincidently, elann.com had the yarn on sale, so it jumped into my shopping cart. I’m sure you all understand. 🙂 It’s Classic Elite Imagine, 53% cotton and 47% rayon.

It arrived today, and I hurriedly wound a ball, then I read the label. Dry Clean Only. What the? Surely I can hand wash it or something. Opinions, please. I really don’t want to go to the trouble to make a top she loves, then have to send it off for drycleaning every time she wears it!
Apart from that it seems nice. Not much give, but it is a high cotton content, and the rayon is a nice purple shiny bit through the middle.

I finished DH’s hat.

I’m pleased with it, and I assume he is too, as he hasn’t taken it off since I finished it. Mind you, it has been freezing here today, so I can’t blame him. It’s made with Jo Sharp DK in Pistachio, and it took two 50g balls. The brim is double, and the i-cord is knit and sewn on last. I knitted it at a looser gauge than required as my DH has a big head 🙂
So I now have a sock on the needles and that is all. It has been a very long time since I’ve had only a single project in action. Jill let me know today that she got some 12mm needles for me, (yay! she’s my lifesaver! 🙂 so hopefully I can get gauge on those for Em’s Katia cardi.
I also have not yet finished Charlotte’s edging. I’ve been mulling it over and I’m not sure what to do. None of the edgings (although they are gorgeous) in Knitting On The Edge grabbed me for Charlotte, but I don’t feel confident enough in my crochet skills to crochet a border either. Maybe whilst I’m in a knitting slump I should practice my crochet until I feel confident enough to face Charlotte.

I have the knitting blahs 🙁
Here is my current knitting progress on all projects.
DH’s second sock

DH’s Jo Sharp Hat.

The band folds under at the purl row, then I have to do 10 rows of reverse stockinete before I start the shaping. Unbelievably, my gauge was correct, I was knitting along blissfully, was up to the point I’m at now, then I tried it against his head only to find that his head is too big. So I frogged it, and am only now back to here with looser gauge.
Emily, in her 11 year old wisdom, has decided that she absolutely will die if I don’t knit her these.

I have the yarn, substitutions from the stash, but I really don’t feel like starting them. She gave me that imploring look that only an 11 year old girl can truly master, so I guess I really should start them. I guess. 😉

I can’t believe that with the number of needles I own, I don’t have the right needles for the two projects that I do want to start – one maybe, but both of them?? Anyway, the Addi 3.5mm is on the way for DH’s sweater, but I’ve had no luck sourcing 12mm needles for Em’s cardigan. Of course, it’s not as if I don’t have plenty of projects waiting in the wings for me. I just have the blahs. Hopefully it will pass soon.

Over react? Me? Regularly!
I whisked Twinky back to the vet this morning, as she still hadn’t perked up, hadn’t eaten, hadn’t been to the toilet… and as soon as we went in, she started hopping all over the examination room, sniffing about, full of beans.
Still, the vet was lovely, and didn’t make me feel like a total idiot. 🙂
He examined her, and said that she is fine, just feeling a little sore and cranky. She’s not dehydrated, her temperature and all other vitals are fine, her mother is a little over-anxious is all.
She has picked up tonight and is eating a little, but is still much more quiet than normal.
Knitting goes nowhere, but I did sew today, so the never ending pile of dance costumes shrank a teeny bit. Hopefully I can pick up a pair of 12mm needles tomorrow and make some progress on Em’s Katia cardi. However, I have been led to believe that with the current rage of novelty scarves, large needles are as rare as hen’s teeth locally. Bah!

Twinky isn’t herself yet 🙁
She’s still off her food, which can be dangerous in rabbits, as their digestive tract can shut down. We have spent the best part of the evening trying to tempt her with all sorts of things, and finally got her to nibble some hay. I rang the vet, and if she is still unwell tomorrow evening, we’ll take her back over.
Knitting is still nada. Despite the fact that my tension was too loose with the Katia on 10mm needles at first, now it’s too tight. I don’t have any needles bigger than a 10mm, so I shall have to go out on the weekend and hunt a pair down.
Of course, it could be my anxiety levels rising…. 🙂