Once a week

OK, so I'm rubbish at posting on this blog regularly! So far I seem to have managed about one post per month. But I'm going to improve - really! I'm going to try to post once a week. (We'll see how long that lasts - if it's anything like my teenage diaries, it'll be about twice.)

So, this week I went to my first ever knit night. Having discovered the Reading Berkshire group on Ravelry, I went to Sticks and Strings at the Global Cafe. I had great fun and met some very clever, creative knitters. I took Fascination, but only did one pattern repeat before I decided that trying to knit lace whilst chatting to people I'd never met before wasn't going to work: I switched to Pip's Loops which are progressing well (onto the foot of the second sock).

I am expecting yarn. Yeay. I have ordered some lovely stuff, but it is for my SoSeSaSwa, so no more about that here. I have also ordered some Shetland Laceweight to knit my shawl. This is going to be a big project. My Dad knitted this shawl when I was a baby. I have inherited the pattern (it was going to be thrown away in a house move but I snaffled it) and now I want a go. It's knitted in the traditional manner with centre, edge and border and I've ordered what I hope will be a pretty pale grey. Very exciting - but a huge challenge. The upside is that when Dad made his he built a blocking frame with tacks in to pull out all the points - I just hope he still has it.

Anyway - to work, to work. If I can ever pursuade my camera to start downloading to the computer, I will be able to add piccies!