Reality - Absence

Still here

No, no, no, no, no...!!  Here I go again, providing you with too little to read!  However, I have a good reason for being absent.  I have so many things I want to do, but I can't do them all at one time.  So my crosswords, books, active photography and writing have all been set aside for - knitting!  I've knitted ever since I was like 5 years old, and stopped after my second child was born.  Not much time for knitting back then with two children plus a house with a garden.  In fact, crosswords and writing and stuff were not even a part of my vocabulary for many years.  But now...!

I wanted to knit a sweater, and I had a pretty good idea of what it was going to look like - model, colors, etc.  Finding the right one was however not so easy, and although I'm good at knitting I'm not good with making my own patterns.  I started out in one of the larger stores in the Malmö area, and I found a very nice pattern.  But I didn't really want wool, but cotton or a mix of cotton and acrylic.  So I searched the web, trying to find the possibility to order online or finding a good yarn store. Ordering online seemed complicated for various reasons, and was not an option.  Yarn stores were closed for vacation or had opening hours a working woman could not handle, or situated in an area where I just don't go.  Nothing wrong with the neighborhood, just trouble with a lot of traffic and hard to find a place to park.  So I went back to the first alternative.

After having checked all possible ways of using another yarn I realized it wouldn't be better than the yarn provided in the pattern, so I went with this after all.  Not a bad choice at all.  But the description...  I have never in my life seen a description as lousy as this!  It contained only a drawn picture and it was impossible to know that one of the colors in the front of the sweater was actually the back part showing.  I realized that when I had started knitting.  If I had known I would have chosen the colors differently...  I don't believe this will be bad in any way, but maybe not quite what I would have gone with.  But - it's fun!  My eyes are stuck on the progressing work and I have a constant headache, may hands cramp and my fingers are almost blistered, but I don't care.  The show must go on!

Music:  "Always on my mind" with Elvis Presley

Sweater to-be