Waving my pointy sticks fiercely at life

Hello - I'm back! Popular to contrary belief, I have not been eaten by wool moths, suffocated in my stash o'yarn or got lost on the way back to my new house from the Stitch'n'Bitch meetings...

Now is not the time to go into details of the particulars of my life over the last 3 months - but it does involve: one house-purchase and house-move; one doctoral submission; a poorly parent; one new job; and two kittens amongst other stuff, not all of it good. For much of my life I have travelled around the outermost of it, patting it into shape and tucking in the edges - but the last few months, I've stood very still and life has whirlwinded around me. And I am breathless with the exertion of moving forward. Still, there we have it - sometimes life does us the favour of carrying us forward regardless.

I have been knitting furiously - despite my bloggy-silence and the knitting meetings have cheered me up no end (thanks very much to the cheery core of knitters: Helen; Betsan; Elizabeth (x2) and Peter).

There will be very little new yarn purchasing in the Pollitt household after this new house purchase and my and Helen's glut and 'I Knit London' excitement...I need to put a hole in my stash so I can demonstrate to John that I need more ;0) but there are lots of woolley-wonders balled up and waiting for me...

The two pairs of socks that I started for Andy and Neil's civil partnership were a little late (on return from their honeymoon) but gratefully received - I did apologize for the tardiness and had to explain that I'd been knitting them continuously for 3 months! THREE MONTHS. I forgot how big normal mens' feet are - as my boyf is a human-whippet. The repetitiveness of knitting plain socks has driven me back to my first love - lace - and, with insipiration from Helen, I have found a lovely lace sock pattern to knit with my favourite coloured yarn. And they've kept me a very happy knitter. Here's the pattern from Melanie Knit's blog: Download snowflake_lace_socks.doc

In other non-Bath stitching news, thought you might like this post about a seamstress and a snake. And you'll have all seen this Dr Who outrage, I'm sure...(as a publisher, and someone who should fight to support copyright laws, I should reserve judgement...but the knitter in me can't resist throwing a long, tutting glance in the direction of the BBC).

Comments

[Helen]

A snake bag, just what every gal needs.
I'm glad your socks were well received, they were gorgeous and well worth waiting for.

[VP]

Hi Jess - good to see you back! Hope all the positive stuff continues and the horrible side is beginning to calm down now.

[Gemma]

Hi there, I've just found you through Google and saw that you'd previously written about Get Knitted and also SWTC Tofutsies Yarn separately. I headed over to Get Knitted to check out their site after reading your blog and this yarn is for sale at the moment there for £8. Thought you might be interested. I'll definitely be popping back to your blog. You're the closest blogger I've found so far too! Take care.