New Pattern: The Mindfulness Cowl

Saturday morning socks

Saturday morning, sunlight, tea, and whipping up a pair of quick socks for Young Teenager at home, who literally asked for them. What a happy mum I am! I think he has fond baby memories of wearing warm comfortable hand knitted socks, which are such an entirely different experience to store bought commercial socks. This is when socks cease to be a functional item, and become persons and memories - a childhood friendship you look back upon, the memory of your warm feet after a warm bath after a walk in the rain. So, imagine my happiness when about the same time last week, he wakes up on a fine morning, walks into the living room and says - Can you knit me a pair of socks? My old ones don't fit anymore. Knitting a pair of socks after a long time - has given me ideas for another quick design. Maybe I will post that as I cast on another pair, which I feel I am going to do, as soon as these are done (today). And yes, that is Elizabeth Zimmerman's Opinionated Knitter for comp...

The simplest of tasks: from a skein to a ball

This Easter weekend, we went for our traditional trip to the city. Sydney downtown, for us, means taking the train to Central Station, walking to China town and Paddy's market, buying a bit of this and a bit of that (a pair of earrings this time to add to my collection of earrings from around the world), then eating wontons in hot chilli broth at our favourite china town place, finally walking down Darling Harbour, to the Queen Victoria building (QVB), where my son loves playing the public piano. His main love these days is Chopin, and he pulled quite a little happy crowd. With all this under our belts, mum gets her treat - we go to Morris and Sons , the yarn shop on York Street, just 2 minutes from the QVB, that makes a yarn lover think that they are in a candy shop. Anyway, as always, my persistent observation that we knitters and crocheters end up buying way too much yarn. And well, it was Easter weekend after all, and I had been working crazy hard at the University, so I did ...

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