How bad can it be?

What's your oldest WIP? What deep dark woolly secrets lie within your cupboards and drawers? Mine is probably a cardigan I started over the summer of 2005, and never restarted. I'll get around to it one day.

Yesterday afternoon I received a bag containing the ultimate Work In Progress.

This jumper was started over 48 years ago. My mum wants me to finish it for her. The neck needs to be picked up and a band knitted. Oh, and the sleeves after that, but she thinks there might be a problem in the neck shaping, so fix that bit first.

"I don't like sewing in ends."

Now I know why it's taken so long to finish.

Always look on the bright side

The advantages of being ill are minimal, unless you happen to be a knitter. Then it's all about how long you can knit for while watching TV, skolling bottles of cough medicine and taking pills for blocked sinuses. Oh, and honey-centered Butter Menthols. I love them.

Monday I finished up Dot's vest. It is adorable, isn't it? Less than two weeks and really easy. Best kind of knit. I don't have a photo of her in it, because that would require her to sit still. This rarely happens, unless flour is involved....

 As I'd finished her vest by 10:30am I started another of my Sherlock Holmes blanket squares. This one was called Goodge Corner, from "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle" and was great fun. Lots of twisted knit stitches, and it was a constantly complex pattern.

That was finished last night, however I did notice a mistake that made me drop a stitch down 43 rows, correct it, and come back up again. So what's on today's agenda?

Casting on 286 stitches. Good thing I'm still sick.

And Then There Were None

Dot spent last week being sick.

I joined her on the weekend and we were both sick.

Marcus looked peaky yesterday and this morning he's sick.

Felix is staying home to take care of us all.

Abandon all hope, ye who enter... Unless you're bring me yarn. Then you're allowed in. I myself will be on the couch drinking tea all day, and very slowly knitting.

Make it at least 70%

Ahem...

Winter musings

The Finishing Touch took off again, as it inevitably does each year. At one point I had seven projects to sew up, and one to knit!

Now I can sit back and work on a little vest for Dot. It's much less stressful and still cold enough for it to be necessary.