Bad: This is the state of the Jess cardi that I've been making for Mum. It looks pretty good, really. But it's a disaster. The pattern itself is great and well written — can't find fault with it. The only cause for the disaster was that I was being stupid when doing the yarn substitution. [...]
Annette likes to pick up my knitting or yarn and say that she's "knitting". Today I decided to take a picture… Looks like she's got the knitting pose perfected, just look at that… feet up, knitting on her lap, needles in hands, eyes intent on the knitting. Awww… I hope to teach her to knit [...]
Not long after I posted the last entry, I swatched for Jess again. Just one more time, I thought. I kept thinking that perhaps there's some way I could make it work. The pattern says to use 8mm needles with two strands of the yarn. My first swatch with 8mm needles turned to be too [...]
Sorry for the lack of posts in the past week. There has been some knitting, and a sick toddler. Annette doesn't get sick very often at all, but when she does, she's really miserable. She's got the flu now, the poor thing… I can hear her coughing many times during the night, and in the [...]
